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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"literacy & writing"”.
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Student Perceptions of the Charter School Experience at Metropolitan Detention Center
… value rigorous curriculum that is focused on literacy, writing and mathematical skills and that includes a cognitive therapy element. Additionally, students value meaningful nonjudgmental relationships with teachers and staff.
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Storytelling as an epistemic framework for composers of social justice education
As the need for social justice education becomes more pronounced, there is also a need to better understand what defines social justice education in practice and how it is shaped and revised in real-time. This dissertation study considered what is gained from viewing instructors as composers of …
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Rewriting writing: classrooms as the construction site for literacy between teachers, students, and the curriculum
… ideologies related to language development and literacy practices, especially marginalizing children from diverse, cultural communities. This dissertation raises questions about scripting teacher practice through curricular and assessment tools. This project investigates the negotiation that …
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The Rhetoric of Second Chance: The Invention of Ethos For An Ex-Offender
For many, literacy is reading and writing- a critical tool for ethos construction. But for a marginalized group of ex-offenders, former prison inmates, who were not accustomed to reading and writing as an agent for character invention, the ability to employ literacy and to construct ethos was a …
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A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL
… students who are deaf do not develop English literacy skills as well as their hearing peers. The linguistic interdependence principle suggests that literacy in American Sign Language (ASL) may improve literacy in English for students who are deaf. However, the Deaf community in the United …
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The teacher, the writing curriculum and computers: Planning and practice in pedagogy in two second-grade classrooms
… and challenges of one classroom teacher during writing time in two second grade classrooms. The study looks at how this teacher planned for and implemented a writing curriculum in which computers played a role and what this teacher did in an attempt to influence children's development as …
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Culture, Cognition, and Context: Situated Literacy Practices of L1 and L2 Writing Programs
… to situated sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur, my dissertation investigates how situated disciplinary perspectives shape the literacy practices of an L1 and an L2 writing program at one university. The dissertation reports a longitudinal ethnographic study drawing on my …
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Rewriting Hmong womanhood: literacy that mediates borders
In “Rewriting Hmong Womanhood,” I argue that the revision of cultural gender roles for migrant women comes about through relocating literacies: moving family and home literacies across borders to public spaces such as schools, workplaces, and political realms while also using those same literacies …
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Writing-to-Learn in High-School Chemistry: The Effects of Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy
<p>Writing-to-Learn in High-School Chemistry: The Effects of Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) as an instructional tool to improve academic …