Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160100263

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160100263

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Multiliteracies for addressing disadvantage in senior school science. Multiliteracies for addressing disadvantage in senior school science. This project aims to develop discipline-specific pedagogies in senior physics, chemistry and biology to improve disadvantaged students’ engagement and achievement. Many students from disadvantaged backgrounds fail to develop the linguistic precision and symbolic representational dexterity needed to comprehend and communicate senior school science concepts. These pedagogies will ‘infuse’ multiliteracies in senior school science to improve access to science-based pathways for these students, and enable them to understand progressively more complex scientific concepts and demonstrate this in examinations. This project is expected to improve student retention, arrest declining enrolments in senior school science, and increase young people working in science.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2016

End Date: 06-2021

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $500,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy | Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics | Curriculum and Pedagogy |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Learner and Learning Achievement | Pedagogy | Teacher and Instructor Development

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