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Tracing academic literacies across contemporary literacy sponsorscapes: Mobilities, ideologies, identities, and technologies

open access: yesLondon 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
doaj   +2 more sources

ICT, cultural knowledge, and teacher education in\ud Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper, we make a case for the need to carry out more culturally\ud appropriate research on ICT and teacher education in Africa generally and in\ud Uganda more specifically.
Andena, Sam   +2 more
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How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are We Doing Math in English Class? Building Quantitative Literacy to Improve Expository Text Comprehension

open access: yesNumeracy, 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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Characterizing the use of mathematical knowledge in boundary crossing situations at work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The first aim of this paper is to present a characterisation of techno-mathematical literacies needed for effective practice in modern, technology-rich workplaces that are both highly automated and increasingly focused on flexible response to customer ...
Bakker, Arthur   +4 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Such Tweet Sorrow”: The Explosive Impact of New Literacies on Adolescent Responses to Live Theatre

open access: yesLanguage 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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“Doing something that’s really important”: meaningful engagement for teachers as a resource for transformative work with student writers in the disciplines. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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