For this assignment, it is recommended to browse recent issues of discipline-specific journals and use keywords for core literacy concepts as well as secondary literacy concepts for your discipline. Each discipline will have various terms to categorize secondary literacies.
Here are some keyword search term ideas for core literacy concepts:
literacy, reading and writing, functional literacy, literacy development, academic literacy, emergent literacy, multiliteracies, critical literacy, language development
Use keywords from this list or find secondary literacy concepts under each discipline-specific journal listing.
Here is an example of a simple search for the journal "Educational Studies in Mathematics," using the secondary literacy concept search term "mathematical language." This was accessed through the Academic Search Ultimate database:
Below you will find a number of journals sorted by their discipline focus. This is only a selection of the journals available for each discipline; you may find more by browsing the library's Education databases such as ProQuest One Education, Education Research Complete, or Sage Education. To access the article, click the link and then select a database from the list to view the journal issues.
Try searching each journal using secondary literacy search terms. Some ideas are listed below each content area, but use your searches to find additional relevant terms.
symbolic literacy, mathematical language, mathematical reasoning, critical mathematics literacy, mathematical discourse, problem-framing and modeling, argumentation and proof
"data literacy" "scientific discourse" "argumentation in science" "scientific literacy" "language of science" "critical science literacy" "discourse analysis"
historical thinking, historical reasoning, textual analysis, discourse analysis, argumentation, civic literacy, media literacy, historical literacy, critical literacy
workplace literacy, applied literacy, agricultural literacy, environmental literacy, business literacy, financial literacy, economic literacy, entrepreneurship education, information literacy, computational literacy, computational thinking, STEM literacy, engineering literacy, nutrition literacy, food literacy, health literacy, media literacy
physical literacy, health literacy, movement vocabulary, motor skill literacy, kinesthetic literacy, discourse analysis, embodied learning, multimodal literacy, critical health literacy, critical physical literacy, sociocultural perspectives
