Cambourne’s Model Of Literacy Learning

12/2/2018

"There’s a well know saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words”. Here’s a “picture" which summarises nearly five decades of naturalistic inquiry I’ve done in K-12 classrooms. It’s a visual summary of the theory of teaching and learning literacy which I believe best explains the data five decades of research has generated. In 2017 , Debra Crouch, a USA based teacher and teacher educator sought my permission to synthesise and summarise the Conditions of Learning to support a professional development session she was planning. This visual summary is the result of our collaboration. Over the next few months I intend to convert the meanings and relationships embedded in this “picture” to written language. (I predict it will take more than a thousand words.) Ultimately my hope is to produce a teacher-friendly book that would guide and support teachers in both understanding and applying the Conditions of Learning to create maintain classroom cultures that help all students become highly productive, critically literate citizens.

A copy of the visual attached to this email ( See below) Plus this text.

I’d appreciate any comments, opinions, or questions which you might have.

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5/10/2020 07:12:09 am

Hello Brian,

Do you believe your conditions of learning apply to all education levels or is there a specific demographic

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Dr. Brian Cambourne, associate professor, is currently a Principal Fellow at the University of Wollongong in NSW. He started his teaching career in NSW in 1956 and spent the next nine years working in a variety of small, mostly one-teacher primary schools before entering academic life. He has since become one of Australian’s most eminent researchers of literacy and learning. He completed his PhD at James Cook University before becoming a post-doctoral Fellow and Fullbright Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education; Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Reading at the University of Illinois and Research Fellow at the Learning Centre at Tucson.

Returning to Australia and the University of Wollongong, Brian devoted his research to literacy learning and teaching. His major interest is in professional development for literacy education and he is committed to the idea of co-learning and co-researching with teachers. His ‘Seven condition of learning’ revolutionised the teaching of literacy in classrooms and remains current today. His national and international scholarship has earned him many prestigious awards, including being inducted into the International Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame, and the Outstanding Educational Achievement Award by the Australian College of Educators. Both awards recognize his long-term outstanding contribution over many years to education.

Brian now lives in a small seaside village 100kms south of Wollongong not far from the Shoalhaven Campus of the University Of Wollongong.

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Dr Brian Cambourne