The Literacy, Language, and Culture Graduate Program at the University of Michigan School of Education
How do students make sense of the texts they encounter
in and out of school?
How do teachers best foster students’ communication of
their ideas?
How do community practices mediate and reflect meaning-making?
What happens when these processes do not work smoothly?
Faculty and students in the Literacy, Language, and Culture (LLC) program within the University of Michigan's School of Education are exploring questions like these in their efforts to improve the learning of children and adolescents, both at home and in the community.
What does it mean when you become a student in the LLC program? It means commitment to the understanding and fostering of language and literacy development for individuals of many different backgrounds and capabilities. Our research and teaching focuses on a broad age range, from preschool through adolescence; it takes place in both school and community settings; and it is motivated by a range of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives. What binds our work together is the commitment to understanding the dynamics of how individuals make sense of, and communicate, meaning.
