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Mission Statement
The department's mission statement, revised
in 2001 to reflect shared beliefs and standards, reads as follows:
The Department of Language, Literacy and Culture
is committed to developing and supporting educators whose passion
for teaching and learning nurtures within their students the
capacity for critical literacy and joyful lifelong learning,
along with a sense of respect and pride regarding human diversity
and the desire to promote intercultural understanding. We
support professional collaboration among colleagues who together
undertake the task of achieving full literacy and social justice,
accompanied by equal access to, and opportunity for, quality
education for all students. We believe that language,
literacy and culture play a central, integrated role in understanding,
communication, and respect needed to improve and transform
education in local and global communities.
The department's mission supports the university's
goal of producing professional educators who will serve, enhance,
and lead educational practices and policies in this area. We are dedicated
to helping our students become advocates for a more inclusive
society, as we work together to create literacy abilities for
self empowerment within a full range of social, cultural, and
linguistic contexts, defending and upholding human rights and
striving toward personal, social, and intellectual growth. To
that end we engage in reflective practice, promote reciprocal
teaching/learning relationships, support collaborative teaching
efforts, develop pedagogical knowledge that is socio-culturally
based, and honor in ourselves and others that diversity in culture,
language, social economic status, and talents that makes us all
uniquely human
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