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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 +7 more
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Health Literacy and Communication OpenBackground Research and practice show an urgent need for health interventions to be adapted in culturally and linguistically responsive ways for limited English proficient (LEP) communities where cultural and language discordance exacerbate challenges in
Iris Feinberg +6 more
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Exploration of Children’s Literature about Middle Eastern Nations and Islamic Culture
WOW Stories, 2021 Building off of the belief that children's literature can support students in (re)discovering cultures in the Middle East, the TUSD literacy community was formed to help teachers become more confident about covering the Middle East in lessons. Children's
Junko Sakoi
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Digital libraries and information literacy issues within virtual learning environments : an e-learning impasse? [PDF]
, 2005 The DIDET digital library and VLE approach places much of the responsibility for managing the digital library work flow into the hands of students, as well as academics and librarians. Student responsibilities include the application of metadata, as well
Macgregor, George, McGill, Lou
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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 +6 more
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Artists Reading and Thinking: Developing Intercultural Understandings through Global Literature
WOW Stories, 2013 This vignette provides an overview of the ART Literacy Community and their purpose of exploring the development of young children's intercultural understandings through experience with global picturebooks, children's view of themselves and their personal
Prisca Martens, Ray Martens
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GS4 Student Scholars Symposium 2021, 2021 READ 3231, Early Language and Literacy Development, is designed to help pre-service teachers understand the foundations of literacy and provide techniques that can be taken into the classroom to help students from all developmental levels thrive. Students were provided with authentic opportunities to practice applications of these strategies, both in ...
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Ensuring Success for Young Children: Early Childhood Literacy [PDF]
, 2009 Outlines issues in early childhood literacy and provides a discussion guide for funders on strategies for supporting early childhood literacy programs, community engagement, and closing the reading proficiency gap among the disadvantaged and ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Redefining Normal in the Lives of Second Graders
WOW Stories, 2011 This vignette describes how a second grade teacher incorporates global literature received from the Spokane Literacy Community into the classroom to explore personal and diverse cultures among students. The end result lead to the students redefining what
Melissa Carpenter
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