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Showing 1 to 20 of 307 for “"literacy education"”.
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Assessing Teacher Candidates’ Attitudes on Critical Media Literacy Education
… candidates’ perspectives on critical media literacy to gain an understanding of the skills and tools they need to constructively approach and teach future students about the subject. In addition, the prospect of introducing remixed, student-created board games into classrooms will be …
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Teacher Preparation and Professional Development in Adult Literacy Education
Adult literacy educators enter into teaching positions where they are entrusted with the education of adult learners, often without any prior preparation, and with very little guidance on how to actually teach the learners in their classes. Many “happen upon” jobs teaching adult literacy education, …
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Virtual study sessions for adult literacy education teachers’ multilingual awareness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Setting the Standard: Media Literacy Education in Virginia's Public School
This thesis examines the state of media literacy in the middle school curriculum of Virginia's public schools. Through in-depth interviews with state certified teachers of English and Language Arts, the goal was to uncover student, teacher, resource, family, classroom, school, and other structural …
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Does Experiential Learning Add Value in Financial Literacy Education: A Qualitative Investigation
… to Marketwatch.com the lack of financial literacy among U.S. citizens has cost upwards of $200 billion over the last twenty years. Besides racking up student loan debt that averaged about $37,172 per student in 2016 (Marketwatch.com) millennials and those in Generation Z are also the most …
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Demographic Factors and Beverage Consumption Patterns: Health Literacy, Education, and Income Level
… to increased added sugar consumption6. Health literacy is another variable which may influence beverage consumption patterns, specifically sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. To date only one study has investigated this association, and the authors reported an inverse relationship between …
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"Roadblocks, Stop Signs": Health Literacy, Education and Communication at a Free Medical Clinic
… patients, addresses the patients' health literacy and access to health information inside and outside of the clinic setting, as well as the strategies clinic providers use to effectively communicate health information. This study is based on participant observation in an urban clinic in …
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Media Literacy Education : a Case Study of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
… the frontrunners in the establishment of media literacy education in schools, providing performance and content standards, norm-referenced tests, and pre-service university training for a specialty in media education. Canada is also in the advanced stage in the development of a media literacy …
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Towards Building a Pedagogical Agent that Supports Children’s Exploration and Home Literacy Education
Early childhood education remains a critical topic and challenge in the past decades due to its impact on children’s future. Since the late 90s, early childhood and developmental psychology researchers have started promoting a new child-centered, exploration-and-play-focused early childhood …
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Integrated reading and writing in community colleges: a qualitative study of developmental literacy education
… In light of several bans on developmental education at four-year institutions across the country, the role community colleges play in providing literacy instruction appears to be increasingly important. This project strives to understand the potential to integrate developmental reading and …
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Education: A Security and Freedom for the Other
Financial literacy education (FLE) and entrepreneurship education (EE) are paradigmatic of the dominant response in education to precarious employment and increasing financial insecurity. Motivated by a conviction that governments, researchers, teachers, parents and businesses must empower …
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Bridging the Gap: Realigning Executive Data Literacy Education for Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age
Digital transformation has rendered data literacy an essential competency for executive leadership, yet current executive education programs frequently misalign with the strategic and pragmatic needs of senior leaders. This study investigated this misalignment by employing a quantitative research …
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Developing a Faculty-Librarian Community of Inquiry: A Blended Learning Approach to Facilitate Information Literacy Education
… disciplinary understanding around Information Literacy (IL) might be achieved between faculty members and librarians through the design and implementation of a blended Community of Inquiry (CoI) (Garrison, 2011) Faculty-Librarians CoI Workshop (FacLibCoI) within a social constructivist …
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The readiness of public libraries in South Africa for information literacy education: the case of Mpumalanga Province
… public libraries in South Africa for an enhanced educational role in developing the information literacy of school learners. The public libraries in Mpumalanga Province provide the case site for the study. Across the world, information literacy education has been identified as the raison d'etre of …
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Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television
… majority preschool programming is promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education as a primary learning goal even though children 2-6 spend, on average, more than two hours a day exposed to media. This thesis examines preschool programming …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: A case study of two Namibian informal settlements
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture in Namibia has historically invested resources into adult literacy education to ensure the realization of both national and international undertakings. However, despite such efforts, scores of Namibian citizens are still in need of a literacy education …
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The contribution of literacy education in raising the standard of living: a case study of two Namibian informal settlements
The Ministry of Education Arts and Culture in Namibia has historically invested resources into adult literacy education to ensure the realization of both national and international undertakings. However, despite such efforts, scores of Namibian citizens are still in need of a literacy education …
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Making visible an invisible world - how do adult educators navigate moral dilemmas in HIV health and social literacy education?
… have a component of training or adult education. The purpose of this research study is to understand better what potential moral dilemmas adult educators might face in the HIV health and social literacy field and what tools they use to navigate these dilemmas. I had a sense that adult …
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Lifting Word by Word: Ideologies of Literacy, Education and Feminism in the Rhetoric of Two Nineteenth Century African -American Women
… the fulfillment of the ideal and philosophy of education as racial uplift. The distinct ideologies and philosophies can be traced and delineated through the lives and writings of these early black feminist teachers. Further, it can be argued that for black women, teaching was and is a political …
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How Students Access, Filter and Evaluate Digital News: Choices That Shape What They Consume and the Implications for News Literacy Education
… content that is credible and diverse. News literacy, a topic with a small but increasing presence in high school and college curricula, is concerned with training students to be discerning news consumers. Assessments of news literacy typically gauge the effects of exposure to news literacy …
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