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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"literacy crisis"”.
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Mothers’ Stories: How Family And Community Influences Affect Generations Of Literacy Challenges
<p>This study critically examines America’s literacy crisis and focuses on the most affected: at-risk single-parent mothers of infant-toddlers. Illiteracy is a social justice concern that contributes to poverty, poor health, and crime, and affects the economy and America’s status as the former …
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Functional literacy from a cross-cultural perspective : a comparative study of Canada and Japan
… are now being affected by "functional illiteracy." Canada and Japan have almost opposite standpoints with regard to literacy issues. In Canada, on the one hand, the 1987 Southam Report warns that 24% of adults are functionally illiterate, and 100,000 illiterates are annually added to the …
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A sociological analysis of phonics lesson plans across four structured pedagogic programmes in South Africa
… that South Africa's schooling system faces a literacy crisis. In response to this, school improvement efforts have taken the form of structured pedagogic programmes – “a triple cocktail” of interventions that offer teacher training, resource provisioning and lesson plans in an attempt to alter …
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Fostering Expertise, Confidence, and Passion in Writing Education: How a Common Sense, Nonbinary Education Policy May Serve to Enrich Teachers’ Writing Lives, Shrink the Divide Between Literacy Educators, and Finally Improve Literacy Among New York City Students
<p>I examine the ongoing youth literacy crisis in New York City and, along with it, two long-standing, opposing education policies—progressive and traditional—that have sought to address it. I argue that resisting dogmatic adherence to one or the other of these approaches, coupled with …
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Breathing Coloniality: An ethnographic case study of language and literacy ideologies and colonial power relations in the positioning and development of 1st generation black children's learning experiences in and outside school contexts
… and the impact that coloniality and language and literacy ideologies have among first generation black children's attending English medium schools positioning and family language planning. I draw on the theoretical framework of [de]coloniality with a particular focus on coloniality of power and …
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The effectiveness of the virtual reading gym online intervention for grade three to six learners with reading difficulties
… African learners are not achieving the expected literacy outcomes of their grades. Compounding the literacy crisis is the paucity of South African research related to information and communication technology (ICT)-based reading intervention, which may have potential for population-based service …