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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cultural literacy."”.
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(R)Evolutionary Cultural Literacy: Pauli Murray’s Boundary-Crossing Tripartite Pedagogy
… Scholarship across rhetoric and writing studies, cultural studies, Black feminism, and critical pedagogy has theorized literacy, movement, and commons-making as separate concerns. What the field of cultural literacy lacks is a framework that holds those concerns together, reads them through a …
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Symbolic meanings in the Ghanaian arts : a step towards developing cultural literacy
While the cultural policy adopted by Ghana on her attainment of political independence aims to offer the Ghanaian people opportunities to revive, preserve, and develop their indigenous culture, not much has been done in terms of documenting the Ghanaian cultural arts for both cultural record and …
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Home bilingual and cultural literacy practices of Yoruba heritage speakers towards identity maintenance in the Midwest United States
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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A Comparative Analysis of Read 180 and Cultural Literacy on the Reading Achievement and Motivation of African American Males in an Alternative High School
… while their peers (n = 141) were enrolled in culturally relevant literature classes. Scholastic Reading Inventory scores were used to compare changes in reading achievement. Scholastic Independent Reader surveys were used to compare changes in reading motivation between the two groups over the …
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Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness
… magazine pedagogically driven to increase cultural literacy within the African-American community. In order to do this, this magazine must have the foundation of Pro-Blackness as a driving force towards advancing Black people in the ways this platform can offer its service. <em>Vinyle</em> …
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
… rarely reflect the technical sophistication and cultural literacy mobilized in hip-hop expression. This thesis begins with a reading of hip-hop culture through its use of media technologies, moves on to a historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and concludes with an analysis of the …
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Experience Of Occupational Therapists Practicing In Rural Kenya
… in rural settings such as poor infrastructure, cultural beliefs and values, language barriers, economic statuses, lack of resources, geographical barriers, lack of transportation and limited number of occupational therapists. In this study, three occupational therapists were interviewed as well …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
… of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy</em> spans the fields of composition and rhetoric, literacy studies, archival studies, and queer theory. Deploying unconventional archival texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project explores …
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Literate Citizenship: The Culture of Literacy in Inclusive Middle School Social Studies Classrooms and Students with Intellectual Disabilities
… school setting, the culture and context of the literacy instruction they are receiving is severely limited in the existing literature. In this study, the researcher employed an ethnographic research design to observe the literacy culture of two middle school general education social studies …
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Global leadership: An Analysis of three Leadership Competency Models in Multinational Corporations
… can leaders move from one-dimensional to cross-cultural models of global leadership to encourage more fluid and contextualised international business operations? This thesis examines extant leadership competency models (LCMs) in three multinational companies - selected from across Europe and the …
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Identifying Motivations of New Counselors for Continuing Professional Development of Multicultural Competencies: A Qualitative Study
<p>The need to increase multicultural counseling skills is a crucial area of focus in the continued evolution of the counseling profession. This necessity is due to a number of factors, including the ongoing demographic and societal changes in the United States. The research has helped to bring …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… Mexico, this mother brought her children to full cultural literacy as well as bilingualism by practicing heritage traditions and speaking the heritage language exclusively with them. Through extensive interviewing this past year, I report on the themes in her stories, analyze the decisions she …
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Writing the true self: case studies of ENG 101 students responding to a Peter Elbow-inspired curriculum
… or Mormon Church), these students come from a cultural literacy context in which authorship and personal development are related. Therefore, in this research project, I examined student development in my English 101 classes at this church-sponsored university where 95% of students are …
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Gender Perceptions: A Narratological, Social Constructivist, Case Study of the Literacy Experiences of Urban African American Male Elementary Students
… constructivist case study was to explore the literacy experiences of African American males and their relationships to masculinity in a third grade public school classroom within a Midwestern urban metropolitan area. The blending of critical, narratological, and social constructivist paradigms …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the …
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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
… and reinforcing readers’ identities by promoting cultural literacy, for instance mapping the culinary landscape of Edo and teaching children about social practices and rituals around food and alcohol. Chapter 4 presents texts that contain a variety of didactic content, ranging from Buddhist …
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The nature of learning to nurse through clinical practice experience for international culturally and linguistically different students in Sydney, Australia : an interpretive description
… as integrate theory with practice. International culturally and linguistically different students (ICALD) who come to Australia to study nursing have been found to experience difficulty with learning to nurse in the clinical environment. Through the method of interpretive description, this study …
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Graphic communication design practice for sustainable social advocacy in Pakistan: Co-developing contextually responsive communication design (GCD) methodologies in culturally diverse contexts
… social advocacy, in response to a low Pakistani literacy context. The investigation presents a contextually responsive GCD model for design development (Fig3a: 13), as a critical design framework, for synthesising graphic languages in Pakistan. This is presented as an alternative non-traditional …
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Digital literacy practices of three high school learners across home and school contexts: challenges and opportunities
This study investigates the literacy practices of three high school learners both in and out of the classroom. The study focuses on the role digital devices play in their literacy practices at home and at their school in the southern suburbs of Cape Town. The study focuses on how different …