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Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2021 Literacy is a linguistic innovation characterised by the encoding and decoding of language into a system of visual signs whose relevance to daily life in most societies cannot be overstated. Understood to be both a technology and a social practice, literacy has been the subject of anthropological inquiry since the late nineteenth century, with ...
Turin, Mark, Hanks, Robert
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Critical Literacy and Literacies
Journal of Education, Teaching and Social Studies, 2020 Literacy emerged as a concept that meant the application of reading, writing and numeracy skills in the individual’s everyday context. Nowadays, the concept of literacy takes on a central and multivariate dimension and is mobilized in several contexts, such as digital literacy, sustainability literacy and ocean literacy, just to name a few.
Ana Isabel Santos, Sandro Serpa
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A Scientometric Study of Digital Literacy, ICT Literacy, Information Literacy, and Media Literacy [PDF]
Journal of Data and Information Science, 2020 Abstract Purpose Digital literacy and related fields have received interests from scholars and practitioners for more than 20 years; nonetheless, academic communities need to systematically review how the fields have developed. This study aims to investigate the research trends of digital literacy and
Han Woo Park, Hyejin Park, Han Sung Kim
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Extended strategy-use instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency in a content subject
Reading & Writing, 2018 Background: Student reading challenges have been reported worldwide. In many classrooms around the world, teaching students appropriate strategy-use has been a technique used to improve comprehension and improve reading proficiency. However, strategy-use
Naomi A.Y. Boakye, Michal-Mare Linden
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A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy: The Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale
Methodological Innovations, 2018 We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health
Andrew Pleasant +3 more
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Digital literacy in Ugandan teacher education: Insights from a case study
Reading & Writing, 2013 This case study investigated the relationship between policy and practice with regard to advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ugandan teacher education.
Samuel Andema +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Cochrane reviews are currently of limited use as many healthcare professionals and patients have no access to them. Most member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) choose not to pay for nationwide access
Gerd Gigerenzer, Perke Jacobs
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Improving readability of informed consents for research at an academic medical institution
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2017 IntroductionThe final rule for the protection of human subjects requires that informed consent be “in language understandable to the subject” and mandates that “the informed consent must be organized in such a way that facilitates comprehension.” This ...
Kristie B. Hadden +5 more
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Ampersand, 2021 Transnational living patterns have become increasingly more common. Language is how transnationals ‘forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement’ (Basch et al.
Tijana Hirsch, Orly Kayam
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Information Literacy, Statistical Literacy, Data Literacy [PDF]
IASSIST Quarterly, 2005 Information Literacy, Statistical Literacy, Data ...
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