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The Left Book Club: The Development of an Expressive Political Movement
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What happens when parents and students engage in a collaborative book club?
… and their parents engaging in a collaborative book club using various texts and reader response activities. The parents and students completed a pre and post survey describing their literacy interests and engagement. Parents read various books with their children. Both parent and their child …
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The effects of book club participation on reading comprehension in children with disabilities
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We be talkin': Critical explorations into how Black adolescents experience a Black language book club
… they interacted with Black literature during a book club with consideration for the pedagogical shifts that emerge because of these experiences. Critical consciousness and reader response theories were used to understand how the Black adolescents described their experiences. As a result, the …
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"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
… to read a shared text in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present evidence of the importance of understanding literacy practices in relation to the sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur. …
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Mexican American Parents of Elementary Students and Literacy Engagement: A Case Study of a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Parent Book Club Using Children's Literature
… parents and a bilingual coordinator engaged in a book club using the same historical fiction text as the school's fifth grade classroom. Research questions focused on Book Club participation, connections to the focal text(s), and new learning. Data included audiotapes of the sessions, parent …
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The Organization of Classroom Discussions: A Study of How and Why Female Classroom Particiaption Differs Between Book Club Discussions and Whole-Class Reading Discussions
… reading utilizing the small-group technique of book club discussions (four to six students per club) with whole-class discussions (nineteen students). The study also explored female students* feelings about participating in class and investigated if particular ways of organizing discussions …
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The "Oprah Effect": A Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Toni Morrison and How the Coverage Changed Post-Oprah.
… and year following her selection for Opraha's Book Club. The content analysis method was used in the research, and the results were used to test 6 hypotheses and 6 research questions.</p><p>The results indicated that there was a significant increase in the total number of mentions of Toni …
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Promoting Student -Led Literature Discussions for Second Language and Literacy Development
… literature discussion in an out-of-school book club offers young ESL learners the opportunity to improve their second language and literacy learning. A group of privileged English language learners in grades 4-5 were observed during a 60-minute-long book club that took place twice weekly in …
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"Loosey goosey" liberation: A critical feminist ethnographic study of the community created through the safe spaces of book clubs
… restricted access to the public sphere through book clubs. By utilizing a critical ethnographic approach and feminist theory, this thesis analyzes the communal constructs and safe space of one book club in the Midwest U.S. This critical ethnography of this book club provides an important …
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Between pages, between spaces: queer(ing) community in online book clubs
… adults in Canada and the United States. One book club with 7 participants read Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, and the other with 6 participants read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Both book clubs were co-created in an online space and met bi-weekly for six sessions. Members …
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Examining the curricular and pedagogical challenges and possibilities of post-colonial young adult literature: a narrative inquiry of book clubs with pre-service teachers
… and curriculum theories to describe two book clubs in which twelve pre-service English teachers examined post-colonial young adult literature and explored the possibilities and challenges of using these texts in English Language Arts classrooms. The texts selected for the study focus on …
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Balancing politics and publishing: Victor Gollancz and the publishing revolution of the 1930s
… too closely aligned to the CPGB, the Left Book Club and Gollancz’s own publishing firm made radical changes that not only revolutionised publishing in the Thirties, but also directly influenced the policies of the incoming Labour government of 1945. This is significant because it runs …
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Through the Eyes of a Child: Cultural Awareness via Appalachian Literature
… Appalachian literature during Appalachian book club meetings. The following research questions are examined: Do students’ literature responses reflect Jones’ Appalachian values (to be delineated later)? What values do Appalachian students deem important in their lives? Does reading …
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Organizational Climate, Teacher Beliefs, and Professional Development: An Investigation of the Relationships
… Discipline as professional development and book study as delivery, in this mixed methodology study, 489 teachers in 17 suburban elementary schools completed surveys measuring organizational climate constructs, teacher beliefs about classroom management, and self-reported degree of …
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Understanding The In-School Literacies Of African American Males Through A Sociocultural Paradigm: Implications For Teacher Professional Development
… This study explored how immersing teachers in a book club model of professional development could encourage them to use the practice in their classrooms and to use literacy as a means to connect students to the institution of school and school-related content. The book club model is heavily …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… a hybrid (i.e., online and face-to-face) book club, a public forum, and digital chats during which participants talked with their neighbors about various texts they encountered during the simulations. Data were collected from 14 students enrolled in the course and consisted of 16 …
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British socialist theatre 1930-1979 : class, politics and dramatic form
… its successors the Unity Theatres and the Left Book Club Theatre Guild in the 1930s. It then examines how this was continued during the Second World War; and how it was affected by the political and other circumstances of the immediate post-war years. Finally it deals with the revival of …
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Developing White Teachers' Sociocultural Consciousness Through African American Children's Literature: A Case Study of Three Elementary Educators
… of "consciousness-raising" in a white teacher book club examining ten different African American children's picture books. The study design was supported by an Intergroup Dialogue model, developed by Zuniga et al. (2002) and adapted for white facilitators by Quaye (2012). Data Analysis was …
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