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DOCUMENTING WHAT’S ON THE SHELF: FRAMING EDUCATORS’ IDENTITIES

open access: yesDigital 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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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Alignment Of Skills And Practice Via Active Reading Methodology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the ...
Brooke, Jane M.
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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

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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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity and critical social engagement: How changing technologies enable new modes of literacy in changing circumstances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This chapter takes a historical perspective on the notion of new literacies (Bruce, 1998), raising the question of how literacies, technologies, and social circumstances co- evolve and what changes in literacy practices mean for adolescents today.
Bruce, Bertram C.
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“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
doaj   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling "the new" in New Literacies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This book "samples" work in the broad area of new literacies research on two levels. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies. These are video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, using websites to participate in affinity practices,
Lankshear, Colin, Knobel, Michele
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