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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Multiple literacies"”.
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Literate Behaviors in African American Head Start Families: A Multiple Literacies Perspective
… family literacy study. The contribution of multiple literacy practices, both traditional and non-traditional, was examined in relation to child language and literacy outcomes. It was found that most low-income African American families engaged in multiple literacy practices. Analyses …
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Multiple literacies in a multicultural setting: Contextualizing nontraditional students' appropriation of virtuality and reality
… to enact a research agenda that acknowledges the multiple, shifting, and sometimes contradictory positions that nontraditional and marginalized students--especially women--occupy in an academic setting. In particular, I look at the acquisition of academic discourse(s) in a basic writing class and …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
<p>New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom contends that changing demographic diversity in American higher education and increasing globalization call for curricular and pedagogical transformation of writing courses. The writing curriculum for "globalized classrooms" should be …
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Illuminating Literacies Beyond the Classroom: Women as Bricoleurs Negotiating Social Class and Multiple Discourses
… resourcefulness, articulated goals, the use of multiple literacies, commitment to their families' welfare, support and initiative in their children's schooling and a keen awareness of social class barriers. Repositioning our perspectives (Sleeter, 1996) enables educators to discover the …
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Where joy resides: Four teacher educators evaluate themselves via multiple literacy artifacts and reflections
… or who influenced four teacher educators to use multiple literacy artifacts and reflections to evaluate themselves, and help their students do the same. I define a wide range of print and non-print mediums as multiple literacies in that some learners rely on them to explore and express what they …
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"To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest" -- Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical Practices of the Angolite
… States choose to represent themselves, their multiple literacies, and their own understanding of such issues as inmate educational opportunities and prison rape. Such literacy practices are framed by the fact that the majority of inmates at Angola read below fifth-grade level and that …
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An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune
… represented, as well as encouraged and enabled, multiple literacies within the African American community. I ultimately argue that the newspaper created an identity as citizen for free and emancipated blacks alike through its inclusion of evidence of blacks’ education and knowledge of historical …
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"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces
… help articulate the boundedness and fluidity of multiple discourses, and to better clarify how teens maneuver across these boundaries successfully. My research approach incorporates ethnographic methodology with a framework of critical sociocultural theory, drawing heavily upon Gee's (2005) work …
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Literacy At Transition : An Exploration Of The Continuities And Discontinuities In Literacy Practices Across Secondary Transfer And Their Implications For Literacy Development
… greater recognition and responsiveness to the multiple literacies operating within the educational arena.
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… one museum exhibit. Through research in multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000), objects and written discourse constituted the text. Two high school subjects spent 15 minutes viewing a specified exhibit on separate occasions. They were asked seven questions designed to aid their recall. The …
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Curriculum of Imagination Beyond the Walls of Standardization
… a variety of settings, ranging from the use of multiple forms of literacy in content area studies to the use of literature and media to enhance understanding of the other. I also focus on the significance of sensing gaps and perceiving the unanswered, the unfinished, and the unjust in ways that …