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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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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
wiley   +1 more source

Belizean Voices: Reflection, Consideration, and Response

WOW Stories, 2022
The goal of the Belize Global Literacy Community was to read books together, respond as readers in dialogue, consider books that would work well in Belizean classrooms, and explore pedagogical possibilities for engaging with those texts.
Sue Christian Parsons
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Introduction of Volume VIII Issue 2

WOW Stories, 2020
This introduction to WOW Stories Volume VIII, Issue 2 explains the goals of Global Literacy Communities which have received grants from Worlds of Words, focusing on the works of teachers from different districts in Washington who are part of the Whatcom ...
Kathy G. Short
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

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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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Have the Right”: Connecting the Human Body to Human Rights

WOW Stories
Holly Hardin centers human rights for her unit on the human body for her science class, using the text "I Have the Right: An Affirmation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" as a cornerstone for the unit as well as a text set ...
Holly Hardin
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The Influence of Social Capital on Reading Interest among Book Party Participants

Lentera Pustaka: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Perpustakaan, Informasi dan Kearsipan
Background: The low reading interest of Indonesian society remains a crucial problem in the era of rapid development of digital information flow.
Dina Wulandari, Ade Abdul Hak
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