Epistemic Reading and Writing: Promoting Disciplinary Learning in Textbooks

Textbooks are central to educational public policies as they operationalize the school curriculum. However, most activities are expositive and reproductive, with little attention to the epistemic potential of reading and writing to promote learning in the disciplines. Drawing from Writing to learn a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Navarro, Federico, Ávila, Natalia, Cárdenas, Marcelo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA
Repositorio:Revista Electrónica de Investigacion Educativa
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.redie.uabc.mx:article/2493
Acceso en línea:https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/2493
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Writing across the curriculum
writing instruction
writing processes
reading processes
writing assignments.
Lectura y escritura a través del currículum
enseñanza de la escritura
procesos de escritura
procesos de lectura
tareas de escritura.
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Sumario:Textbooks are central to educational public policies as they operationalize the school curriculum. However, most activities are expositive and reproductive, with little attention to the epistemic potential of reading and writing to promote learning in the disciplines. Drawing from Writing to learn and Learning to write movements, this article aims to depict a theoretically-informed, systematic and replicable pedagogical proposal to teach reading and writing in Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences in the basic education curriculum; the proposal was materialized in 107 teaching sequences that were included in 24 Chilean textbooks between 2015 and 2017. The proposal included identifying diverse and engaging genres across the curriculum; selecting textbooks disciplinary activities demanding the reading and writing of those genres; constructing teaching sequences through socializing expectations, modeling processes, and facilitating linguistic resources and procedures.