Monday, September 17, 2012

Take-aways from McCormick (1994)



The Cognitive Model
·         “Empirically based”
o   Reading processes are quantifiable, testable and broken into a hierarchy of skills
·         Based solely on a reader’s mental capacities
·         Schema theory: importance of a reader’s prior knowledge
o   It would seem that a reader’s social knowledge and context would play into this, but cognitivists don’t address this
·         Objectivist: there is one correct reading of a text
·         This is an old, powerful model that has dominated perspectives on reading for a long time
o   my question: Seems to be the root of college SLOs?

The Expressive Model
·         Readers create their own personal, subjective meanings
·         No hierarchy of skills, no direct instruction
·         Whole Language pedagogies
·         Reader response criticism
o   Democratized the reading process
o   But readers only looked at texts from their own point of view (too superficial)
o   Mainly literary reading

The Social-Cultural Model
·         Reading is reconstructing a text on the basis of a reader’s cultural resources
·         Reading used for shaping peoples cultural and political beliefs
·         Reading is social
·         Critical Literacy
o   Ability to perceive the interconnectedness of social conditions and literacy practices of a culture
o   Ability to analyze those conditions and practices
o   And possess the critical and political awareness to take action

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