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Who wants to be able to do references properly and be unemployed? STEM student writing and employer needs

open access: yesJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2012
The issue of graduate writing is one that has attracted much focus and debate in higher education, particularly around maintaining ‘academic standards’ at a time of expansion in this sector.
Yvon Appleby   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The textuality of learning contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A significant aspect of learning contexts is the way in which semiotic artefacts mediate learning within them. The Literacies for Learning in Further Education (LfLFE) project is researching the role of texts and associated communicative practices in ...
Ivanič, Roz, Satchwell, Candice
core   +1 more source

Posthuman literacies: Young children moving in time, place and more-than-human worlds

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the potential of posthumanism to enable a reconceptualisation of young children’s literacies from the starting point of movement and sound in the more-than-human world.
Abigail Hackett, Margaret J. Somerville
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies 2009, Research Findings No: 58/2010: [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The purpose of this brief document is to discuss the context for, and meaning of, the findings of the Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies 2009. Here the research team examine the findings of the survey and provide a coherent picture of adult literacies ...
Maclachlan, Kathy   +2 more
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Characterizing the use of mathematical knowledge in boundary crossing situations at work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The first aim of this paper is to present a characterisation of techno-mathematical literacies needed for effective practice in modern, technology-rich workplaces that are both highly automated and increasingly focused on flexible response to customer ...
Bakker, Arthur   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Developing digital literacy in construction management education: a design thinking led approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Alongside the digital innovations in AEC (Architectural, Engineering and Construction) practice, are calls for a new type of digital literacy, including a new information-based literacy informed by creativity, critical analysis and the theoretical and ...
Awad, Ramsey, Jupp, Julie
core   +1 more source

Why the "Struggling Reader" label Is harmful (and what educators can do about it) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The authors featured in this department column share instructional practices that support transformative literacy teaching and disrupt “struggling reader” and “struggling writer” labels.Accepted ...
Brooks, Maneka Deanna   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Digital Literacies as Socially Situated Pedagogical Processes: Genealogically Understanding Media, Information, and Digital Literacies

open access: yesMedia and Communication
Despite the increasing importance of digital literacies for citizens to be able to participate in society, there is little scholarly agreement over what digital literacies entail.
Denise Mensonides   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mediators of Inequity: Online Literate Activity in Two Eighth Grade English Language Arts Classes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This comparative case study, framed by Cultural Historical Activity Theory and sociocultural understandings of literacy, investigated students’ online literate activity in two eighth grade English Language Arts classes taught by the same teacher - one ...
Kline, Sonia M, McCarthey, Sarah J
core   +1 more source

Read to Succeed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper outlines the interim results of a continuing collaboration between a module leader and an academic liaison librarian. They identified an opportunity to collaborate on a project aimed at the reconfiguration of an undergraduate module on a ...
Adams, Denise, Cousins, Sarah
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