VillageSoup, Penobscot Bay Pilot report Hutchinson Center to offer graduate literacy course
VillageSoup and Penobscot Bay Pilot reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer a graduate literacy course this summer. Literacy in the Home, School and Community (ERL 590) will run 1–3:45 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays June 24 through July 24. By using sociocultural and ecological perspectives, participants will examine the role that families and communities play in their children’s development as well as home-school connections that promote literacy, according to the article. Through readings, discussion and guest lectures, the course is designed to challenge conventional views of parent involvement and home-school relationships, the article states. The course is being led by Susan Bennett-Armistead, an associate professor of literacy who has held the Correll Professorship in Early Literacy at UMaine for five years.