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Finding a Sense of Place when Displaced: Using Global Literature and Community Outreach with Refugee Youth

WOW Stories
This article looks at efforts by Kim Warren to use a multimodal text set centered on refugee experiences in her English Language Arts (ELA) classroom.
Kim Warren
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Developing Engagements with Global Literature

WOW Stories, 2014
This vignette introduces Volume IV, Issue 8 of WOW Stories, in which eight global literacy communities engage in professional inquiry on global literature.
Kathy G. Short
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Text Sets as Curricular Resistance to Untold and Silenced Stories

WOW Stories
This article looks at the work done during the NEH summer institute of 2024 around multimodal text sets and modeling for the teacher-scholars how to study historical time periods and migration by reading young adult literature, historical documents and ...
Carol Brochin
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Exploring Personal Culture with Young Children

WOW Stories, 2011
This vignette describes engagements with students that arose from the Spokane Literacy Community to guide students into a deeper understanding of culture.
Abby Spencer, Lindsay Wing, Lacey Grummons   +2 more
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning about Latin America through Multiple Texts in Middle School Classrooms

WOW Stories, 2012
The Martin Luther King Middle School Literacy Community integrate global cultures and understanding into the school curriculum through text sets. To accomplish the goal of increasing student engagement in a global curriculum, teachers used text sets of ...
Anne Hawkinson, Lauren Freedman
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson, Rebecca Hale, Tom Haward, Kwaku Adjepong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Human Capital on Social Capital - A Cross-Country Analysis [PDF]

This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals’ participation in voluntary and community activities and organisations.
Kevin Denny
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