Don't look north through rose tinted spectacles: tensions, struggles and guiding lights in Scotland - a reflection [PDF]
, 2006 ‘Scotland has been developing a remarkable adult literacy and numeracy strategy….[it is]…..one of the most dynamic and exciting places in the world right now to be an adult literacy or numeracy practitioner’ (‘Why England should look North for ...
MacLachlan, K.
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“See, Click, Fix”: Civic Interrogation and Digital Tools in a Ninth-Grade Ethnic Studies Course [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing from the theoretical contributions of Ethnic Studies, activist new media, and critical digital literacies, this article explores the nature of a ninth-grade curricular unit about how one’s daily environment impacts one’s health and well-being ...
de los Ríos, CV, Kwon, L
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DOCUMENTING WHAT’S ON THE SHELF: FRAMING EDUCATORS’ IDENTITIES
Digital Culture & Education, 2022 During the beginning of an online class in a teacher education program, an exchange about a holiday and the associated family traditions prompted the author to share the haphazard pieces of her family’s lives as they were framed through the screen ...
Carol Doyle-Jones
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Just Doing Our Jobs: A Case Study of Literacy-in-Action in a Fifth Grade Literature Circle
Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2014 This case study examines the use of literature circles in a fifth grade classroom. Using the concept of literacy-in-action, it examines the question of why, in spite of critique, the use of defined student roles continues to dominate literature circle ...
Kimberly Lenters
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London Review of Education, 2017 Locating itself broadly within the 'sociolinguistics of mobility' (Blommaert, 2014) and taking heed of Stornaiuolo and Hall's (2014) call to 'trace resonance' in writing and literacies research, this article works to trace academic literacies across the
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Exploring notions of genre in 'academic literacies' and 'writing across the curriculum': approaches across countries and contexts [PDF]
, 2009 The SIGET IV panel on genre in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and “academic literacies” (ACLITS) has set rolling a discussion of the similarities and differences in the two traditions, the former originating in the US in the early 1970s, the latter ...
Donahue, Tiane +5 more
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Numeracy, 2018 In 2009, The Common Core Standards shifted the English language arts focus from narrative to expository text, arguing that most texts read in college and workforce training programs are informational.
Ellen C. Agnello
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“Doing something that’s really important”: meaningful engagement for teachers as a resource for transformative work with student writers in the disciplines. [PDF]
, 2015 [About the book] The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "academic literacies" approach in policy and pedagogy.
Tuck, Jackie
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“Such Tweet Sorrow”: The Explosive Impact of New Literacies on Adolescent Responses to Live Theatre
Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2011 Trips to the theatre are a regular feature of many high school language arts programs, and yet the experience of watching a play is often significantly different for a teacher than it is for a student. Placing “theatre literacy” within the context of the
John M. Richardson
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Techno-mathematical literacies in the workplace: a critical skills gap [PDF]
, 2007 There has been a radical shift in the mathematical skills required in modern workplaces. With the ubiquity of IT, employees now require Techno-mathematical Literacies, the mastery of new kinds of mathematical knowledge shaped by the systems that govern ...
Bakker, Arthur +4 more
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