This course will assist teachers in understanding, developing and evaluating their literacy praxis by exploring what constitutes literacy within and across a variety of educational contexts and disciplines and how it is shaped and constrained by cognitive and sociocultural factors. The course will include attention to emergent literacies, digital technologies, and multimodal textual forms so as to provide effective and relevant pedagogical approaches to meet the literacy demands of the 21st century. Specific attention will also be given to addressing the needs of preliterate students from refugee and immigrant backgrounds, the aliterate and/or disengaged Australian-born learner and the differences between everyday and academic literacies.