Developing Students’ Disciplinary Literacy? The Case of University Physics

Swimming against the Tide: Five Assumptions about Physics Teacher Education Sustained by the Culture of Physics Departments

“…Both data sets thus deal with overlapping themes of physics lecturers aims for, and role in helping, educate future physics teachers. Thus, the eight group b interviews form a parallel data set with our three original interviews (Airey, 2012(Airey, , 2013Airey & Larsson, 2018, Linder et al, 2014. Care was further taken in the analysis process to account for the different interview contexts, for example, by paying particular attention to the way questions were asked, the relationship between interviewer and interviewee, and the differing teaching contexts.…”

“…Another aspect of the content knowledge needed by trainee teachers entails a good grasp of school-level physics as laid out in the school syllabus. Here, drawing on Bernstein (1999), Airey and Larsson (2018) have discussed how physics knowledge needs to be both repackaged and recontextualized by physics teachers for use by students in school and society. Last, there is the question of relevance, which has been thoroughly connected to student motivation and results in the literature (Afjar et al, 2020;Bennett et al, 2016;Gaffney, 2013;Nair & Sawtelle, 2019).…”

“…In the current Swedish physics curriculum, teaching in physics should give pupils the opportunity to develop their knowledge of physics, its history, how it is used to solve problems, its significance for both the individual and society, and the ability to use physics to communicate and evaluate information. Thus, the focus of school physics content is different than the focus of university physics courses and it has been argued that this is one of the reasons the transition from university to school physics is not always straightforward (Airey & Larsson, 2018).…”

The content lecturer and English-medium instruction (EMI): epilogue to the special issue on EMI in higher education

“…In my dealings with engineers, however, lecturers tend to place their discipline in the centre of the diagram emphasising the importance of all three sites. See (Airey and Larsson 2018) for a discussion of the potential clash of disciplinary literacy goals when physics students train to become teachers.…”

Do I really have to Teach them to Read and Write? Education Equity Mindset and Teaching Literacy across the College Curriculum

“…Support for literacy skill development is critical for students' college success (Armstrong et al, 2015;Cox et al, 2003). Yet, many postsecondary faculty members perceive students need to come to college with well-developed literacy skills (Reed & Justice, 2014;Selman, 2017) and do not embrace the responsibility for helping students further develop their literacy skills (Airey & Larsson, 2018;Gregory & Colclough, 2018). Perceptions that some students are just not ready for college or are not suited for college are barriers to being more inclusive and equitable with opportunities, particularly for historically under-served populations (Kirst, 2014).…”