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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
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New literacies, learning, and libraries: How can frameworks from other fields help us think about the issues?

In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2013
In Brief: In the library world, we may look to other fields to help us make sense of new digital literacies. Their frameworks may offer us new perspectives, challenge our assumptions, or give us greater clarity on the issues.
Eveline Houtman
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Editorial 4/2010: Literacies

Medienimpulse, 2010
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Alessandro Barberi, Theo Hug
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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
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Navigating digital publics for playful production: A cross-case analysis of two interest-driven online communities

Digital Culture & Education, 2016
This article argues that the set of skills and strategies associated with managing digital publics online represent an emergent literacy practice of importance to literacy researchers and educators.
Ksenia A. Korobkova, Matthew Rafalow
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Potential of a Pluriversal Literacies Framework for Decolonizing English as Foreign Language (EFL) Policy and Practice in Colombia

Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal
Literacy scholars have pointed out the neoliberal co-opting of literacy and language learning, specially when English is often promoted as the language of progress by the English language teaching industry and educational policies worldwide.
Tatiana Becerra Posada
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Techno-mathematical literacies in the workplace: a critical skills gap [PDF]

, 2007
There has been a radical shift in the mathematical skills required in modern workplaces. With the ubiquity of IT, employees now require Techno-mathematical Literacies, the mastery of new kinds of mathematical knowledge shaped by the systems that govern ...
Bakker, Arthur, Bhinder, Chand, Hoyles, Celia, Kent, Phillip, Noss, Richard   +4 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Letramentos em rede: textos, máquinas, sujeitos e saberes em translação Networked literacies: texts, machines, subjects and knowledges in translation

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2012
Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de (re)descrição do fenômeno do(s) (novos) letramento(s) fundamentada teórico-metodologicamente na Teoria Ator-Rede e ilustra o percurso que levou a tal proposta com uma vinheta descritiva de parte dos resultados de ...
Marcelo El Khouri Buzato
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