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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Literate Activity"”.
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Learning and doing literate activity and labor activism in a graduate worker union
… examines how union members’ engagement with literate activity mediates collaborative projects of social transformation and how participation in such projects consequentially transforms their trajectories of semiotic becoming in union activism. Challenging narrow, segmented accounts of …
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Dialogic tracings of lifespan literate activity and/on trajectories of semiotic (un)becoming
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Rearticulating religious rhetoric: Literate activity and semiotic remediation in a progressive Christian church
… church, Rearticulating Religious Rhetoric: Literate Activity and Semiotic Remediation in a Progressive Christian Church pushes back against the field’s common conception of religious rhetoric, a conception narrowly focused on the genre of the sermon and the figure of the fundamentalist …
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Disciplinarity and literate activity in science: tracing pathways of becoming, writing and practice
… Specifically, this project focused on the literate practices of participants in the scientific community and in one secondary science. Using a variety of ethnographic methodologies included retrospective accounts, drawing protocols, tracing practice across sites of engagement, and …
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“Anyone can be a scientist”: Constructions of expertise and citizenship in citizen science literate activity
… divides between university and community literate practices. In this dissertation, I trace the tools, texts, and spaces of citizen science with attention to the bodies excluded from those spaces. I analyze two focal projects: the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network (IBMN) and the …
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Offline mediators online: writing activity in two middle school classes
… & Nardi, 2006). Framed by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) (Leont’ev, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978), this dissertation broadens the study of students’ literacy learning in educational settings by considering offline mediators as constitutive of students’ online literate activity. …
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Mapping Critical Connections: Tracing Undergraduates' Literate Lives
… relationships between students' out-of-school literate activity and the writing they do for school. The result, as this dissertation argues, is that we have overlooked the critical ways that non-school literate activity shapes students' participation in the literate practices and discourses of …
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Supporting liberatory literate praxis across disciplines and institutions
… programs find meaningful to their holistic literate development across two social justice education programs: the University of Colorado Boulder’s INVST Community Leadership Studies Program and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s Social Justice Educators Paraprofessionals …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
… this process of learning find expression in our literate lives, and how can we become attuned to it in order to critique and possibly change it for the better? One way, I contend, is to remain attentive to age identities and aging bodies in the research and teaching of technological literacy. As …
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Experienced teachers’ planning practices: Orienting, inventing, and envisioning
… assembled a three-part theoretical framework: literate activity (Prior, 1998), mediated agency (Wertsch, 1991), and distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995). All three of these theories invite a more holistic framing of the work of teacher planning and situate it in everyday practice. I use …
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Culture, Cognition, and Context: Situated Literacy Practices of L1 and L2 Writing Programs
Drawing on the sociocultural approaches of activity theory (e.g., Vygotsky, Engestrom) and practice theory (e.g., Bourdieu, Lave) that emphasize the importance of understanding literate activity in relation to situated sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur, my dissertation …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
… of everyday technical writing practices, the literate activity of the body including gesture in relationship to text, and the local situated practices of popular culture that inform understandings of medicine. These concepts are not typically under the purview of professional writing studies …