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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Critical literacy"”.
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Critical Literacy in the Primary Grades
… of primary-aged students successfully enact critical literacy in their classrooms. Using a critical pedagogical theoretical framework, I addressed the following research questions: In what ways are teachers of primary grades modeling and fostering critical literacy within their classrooms? …
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Critical Literacy in the Primary Grades
… of primary-aged students successfully enact critical literacy in their classrooms. Using a critical pedagogical theoretical framework, I addressed the following research questions: In what ways are teachers of primary grades modeling and fostering critical literacy within their classrooms? …
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Teachers' Perceptions And Realizations Of Critical Literacy
… teachers' perceptions and realizations of critical literacy learning as they engaged in collaborative inquiry into their students' learning. Participants used critical discourse analysis (CDA) of student writing and student talk to uncover the ideologies at work in their classrooms. This …
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Critical literacy in a global context: Reading Harry Potter
… the Harry Potter texts may be approached from a critical literacy perspective to support readers to contest conservatively-aligned readings and to question the role of the texts in preparing students for a world of peace and cooperation.
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Critical Literacy and Podcasting in a 2nd Grade Classroom
Research with young children, critical literacy and new technology is limited (Burnett, 2009; Carrington, 2006; Marsh, 2005.) The purpose of this study is to describe the literacies produced in a second grade classroom, through podcasting, where the teacher attempted to frame my teaching from a …
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Critical Literacy in Literature Instruction: Canonical vs. Young Adult Literature
… literature instruction that promotes critical literacy with paired canonical and young adult literature text sets and essential questions.
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The effects of critical literacy according to Bloom's taxonomy cognition
… kindergarten students who were introduced to critical literacy lessons could learn and increase their higher level thinking skills according to Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognition than kindergarten students who were not instructed in critical literacy. The experimental group consisted of fifteen …
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Using Literature to Support Second Graders' Critical Literacy of Civil Rights
… literature to engage second grade students in critical literacy. I drew on multiple domains examining the use of children's literature in students' critical literacy development. I used data to analyze the kinds of perspectives children's literature provides, how students interpret different …
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Promoting critical literacy among emergent bilinguals: an exploration of their identities
… an educator’s commitment towards nurturing critical consciousness among her emerging bilingual students. Data collection consisted of audiotaping literature discussions over a five-month time period. Using inductive analysis, I, as both the research and educator, worked to understand how …
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Engaging differences linguistic diversity and critical literacy pedagogy in the classroom
… diversity and the role of the teacher in critical literacy. In South Africa there is very little classroom based research which shows how students and teachers are engaging with issues of diversity, power and inequality, post-apartheid. This research focuses on how my students and I …
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Critical Literacy: An Innovative Approach To Learning Among Students With Reading Disabilities
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>CRITICAL LITERACY: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO LEARNING AMONG STUDENTS WITH READING DISABILITIES </p> <p>by</p> <p>KARYN M. CHIAPELLA</p> <p>DECEMBER 2015</p> <p>Co-Advisors: Dr. Marshall Zumberg; Dr. Gerald Oglan</p> <p>Major: Special Education</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of …
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The Power of the Picturebook: Examining Aesthetics and Critical Literacy for Imagination
… the text and the illustrations aesthetically and critically in order to understand the past, question the present, and imagine possibilities of the future. My theoretical framework for the study was based upon the theories of aesthetic experience (Greene, 1995, 2001; Rosenblatt, 1995) and critical …
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The impact of blogging on the facilitation of critical literacy in adolescent students
… blogging with adolescent students could foster critical literacy. During the study, students researched an alternative perspective from World War II and completed six blog posts on a variety of topics over the course of four weeks. At the completion of the study, students' blog posts and …
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Teaching critical literacy skills through fantasy literature : case studies from three Connecticut high schools
… of this thesis was to explore the teaching of critical literacy through fantasy literature. This research explores the possibility of a union between a pedagogy of empowerment and a literature of the fantastic, a union which will help improve our lives and democratize our world while validating …
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Wading in the Water: A White Educator and African American Girls develop Critical Literacy
… the use of performance activities to stimulate critical reflection about issues that were generated from the daily experiences of the girls involved. Performance activities were based on the work of Augusto Boal in liberatory theatre and the notions of Maxine Greene about opening critical space …
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Class Conscious or Conscience Class: The Pedagogical Choices Teachers Make as Critical Literacy Practitioners
… all sociocultural strata develop into not only critical readers, consumers, and even critical civic participants, but into citizens with active critical consciences and a lively critical consciousness of their own culture and the cultures of others. In this study, the author observed and …
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