Unfixing knowledges: Queering the literacy curriculum [PDF]
, 2007 In the literacy classroom, students have few opportunities to use their literacy practices to contest narratives of race, class, gender and sexuality. Instead, extensive time is spent completing literacy activities associated with what 'good' readers and
Walsh, Christopher S.
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The Evolving Role of Information Literacy in Higher Education: A Case Study
, 2006 The desire of librarians at Nyack College, like other academic librarians, is to play a significant role in the development of effective research and critical thinking skills in the community we serve.
Poston, Linda
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Neurocognitive impairment is associated with lower health literacy among persons living with HIV infection. [PDF]
, 2014 This study sought to determine the effects of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) on health literacy, which encompasses the ability to access, understand, appraise, and apply health-related information.
Blackstone, Kaitlin +6 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
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Investigating Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Critical Media Literacy
Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2011 This paper examines preservice teachers’ understandings of critical media literacy as they designed critical media literacy lessons in an initial teacher education language and literacy course for K-6 teachers.
Lorayne Robertson, Janette M. Hughes
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Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship [PDF]
, 2003 Media literacy education has come a long way since the 1970s, when the first "critical thinking" courses were introduced in a few American schools. Most educators today understand that with the revolutionary changes in communication that have occurred in
Christina Cho, Marjorie Heins
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Background Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to JIA disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship between cumulative social disadvantage, neighborhood disadvantage, and JIA ...
William Daniel Soulsby +6 more
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Functional, communicative and critical health literacy among older Polish citizens
Medycyna Pracy, 2022 Background The level of health literacy possessed by an individual (functional, communicative, critical) determines their ability to effectively self-manage a chronic disease.
Anna Mirczak
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Towards critical literacy : literature and teachers' reactions to reader-response theories : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Second Language Teaching at Massey University [PDF]
, 1999 Much poststructuralist literary theory, in particular that derived from reader-response theories, points to the need for the development in readers of a more critical literacy.
Brown, R. A. Julie
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach +5 more
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