Creating a Literacy Environment

Creating a Literacy Environment

Introduction

The term "learning environment" is now widely used in the vocabulary of science education. Its spread coincided with the change of perspective that, for two decades now, has been registered in the field of psycho-pedagogical. This is referred to the paradigm shift from teaching to learning that: a vision focused on teaching (what to teach) is passed to a perspective focused on the learner and therefore its processes, with particular attention to as it is built on the context of learning support. In a broad sense, the learning environment can be understood as a physical or virtual, but also as a mental space and cultural, organizational and emotional / affective together (Emerging Literacy Views and Practices, 2005).

Discussion

Development of literacy

For the construction of the learning environment the teacher puts in place a series of actions to achieve the objectives of teaching / learning, which are acts of planning, implementation and evaluation are related to educational factors (the relationship with the knowledge), psycho-pedagogical (the relationship with students and their characteristics), organizational (the real management education in relation to the class and outside, times and ways of teaching (Hawken.L, et al 2005, pp 232-242).

For each of these modes must make specific choices for the contents, their mode of presentation and aid to give, in order to allow the acquisition of knowledge structures well organized. To help students build knowledge integrated and cohesive it becomes necessary to help them acquire the "sense of discipline," and that is to become gradually aware of the “organization" that disciplines such as cultural constructions that involve specific languages, points of view, ways of conceptualizing the experience, tools. At the same time, it is necessary to provide the conditions that allow for transfer to other areas of the concepts and procedures learned, thus ...