Improving disciplinary literacy in Senior High School Industrial Technology. This project addresses major literacy issues in Senior High School Industrial Technology. It describes the distinctive lite

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Improving disciplinary literacy in Senior High School Industrial Technology. This project addresses major literacy issues in Senior High School Industrial Technology. It describes the distinctive literacies needed for designing and constructing projects in timber, metal, graphics etc., and generates with teachers pedagogies to develop these specialized literacies, providing new knowledge of literacy and pedagogy in an area long neglected in literacy research but with some of the highest literacy needs in senior high school. Outcomes include co-designed exemplar pedagogy for discipline-specific multimodal literacy in Industrial Technology, significantly benefitting advanced manufacturing through a new generation of workers with advanced literacy to operate digital platforms for designing and managing complex systems.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4704 - Linguistics. Lead: Dr Yaegan Doran