Dissertations / Theses: 'Illiteracy And Literacy Education'

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Makunga, Barrington Mtobeli. "Challenges, illiterate caregivers experience to support their children’s education." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4685.

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Magister Artium (Social Work) - MA(SW)
Primary Caregiver’s ability to provide a healthy, nurturing and stimulating environment is critical, but Caregivers in South Africa, especially those living in rural communities, are facing many challenges, including a combination of poverty, lack of education and skills, as well as social isolation, which directly and indirectly affect their ability to care for their children in a way to ensure their optimal developmental outcomes. Residents in far rural communities, such as in the Eastern Cape, have had less opportunities to go to school, due to various reasons and Caregivers therefore face multiple burdens. For the purposes of this study, it is important to clarify with reference the term “Caregiver”. The South African Children’s Act (Act 38 of 2005) differentiates between biological parents, guardians and caregivers. According to the Act (Children’s 2005), parents may be a biological father or biological father, a guardian being an honorary parent to the child and a caregiver is any family member rather than the biological parent or guardian who is concerned with care, welfare and development of the child. Although there is such differentiation, caregiving remains central to the holistic care required of any adult responsible for the nurturing of children. This will include biological father, mother, grandparents, extended family members, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles as well as any person who is concerned with the care, welfare and development of the child and has been, after application to court of law, granted permission to exercise parental responsibilities over the child. The population for this study encompassed caregivers who are least educated and or never attended school in the Ku-Jonga rural settlement in Coffee bay and research participants were purposively selected from the populations. Data was collected by means of focus groups with the aid of an interview guide. The interviews were conducted in Xhosa and later translated into English. A Thematic system was used according to the Tesch’s eight steps and ethical considerations such as voluntary participation, informed consent and confidentiality were adhered to. The community has most citizens who identified with the target population. This is based on historical factors. The participants freely expressed themselves and contributed to the findings and thereby assisting the researcher reach the conclusions about experiences illiterate caregivers experience to support their children’s education.

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Sibiya, Hlengana Solomon. "A strategy for alleviating illiteracy in South Africa a historical inquiry /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03102005-124313/.

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Williamson, Peter Burnett. "The social construction of illiteracy a study of the construction of illiteracy within schooling and methods to overcome it /." University of Sydney. Social Policy and Curriculum Studies, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/494.

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Pre-literate children experience written text as a meaningless material object, the word-object, but the compulsory and institutional aspects of reading pedagogy make this an experience from which they cannot escape. Some children begin to associate their own negative experiental sense with the word-object before they are able to learn to read. As reading pedagogy continues, these children begin to read back experiental sense which prevents them from converting the word-object to meaningful text. Experiental sense is repressed because it is psychically painful. It retains qualities of phenomena repressed from childhood: it is active and intractable to reason. The result is an intractable illiteracy which may be interpreted as biologically based �dyslexia.� Further attempts at reading pedagogy in childhood and adulthood generally result in reproduction of the inability because this pedagogy requires learners to attempt to read linguistically which elicits experiental sense. As these children become adults, their avoidance of reading sometimes structures their social relations to accommodate and compound their problems. The method to overcome the problem replaces experiental sense with positive feelings about written language. The power of language to denote emotions of pleasure and affirmation from learners� lives is used. These emotions are enhanced through a technique of affirmative intersubjectivity. Short spoken affirmative texts are made by learners, tape recorded and reproduced as written texts by the literacy worker. Through allowing learners control and autonomy over their spoken and written texts, the positive emotions in them are associated by learners with the written texts. Exercises on the affirmative written texts are used to demonstrate regularities about written language. Learners then progress to reading suitable independent texts and other activities. There are suggestions about how to enhance learners� feelings as competent readers and writers. The thesis uses a methodology of action research and includes five case studies of adults with literacy problems. Concepts from social theory, psychoanalysis and object relations theory are used and adapted to understand written language, schooling and illiteracy.

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Amua-Sekyi, Ekua Tekyiwa. "Developing criticality in the context of mass higher education : investigating literacy practices on undergraduate courses in Ghanaian universities." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7447/.

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The study observed five introductory classes at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, to find out what academic literacy practices are being engendered and how criticality is being fostered through those practices. The results are intended to help both myself, as a teacher researcher, and the university to identify how students make the difficult transition from expectations of literacy at secondary school to those at university. I observed lecturers and students in their classroom environment for a semester (16 weeks); interviewed lecturers who taught the courses observed and conducted five focus groups, made up of eight students each, with volunteers from each of the classes observed. These interviews were replicated in two other public universities: the Universities of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where two and five lecturers respectively participated in individual interviews, and eight students each participated in focus groups. Finally, I triangulated the data in order to identify emergent patterns of lecturers' and students' experiences with teaching and learning. The data indicates that students need more explicit teaching of the basic literacy skills they are assumed to have. Most students in the study had difficulty comprehending academic texts. Additionally, students rarely attempted to read their assigned texts beforehand since they had little experience in anticipating what to look for or connect with in the text. Student writing is poor, as they have no opportunity to practice continuous writing. In order to address the literacy difficulties of these students, there is the need to pay attention to institutional and faculty engagement practices which promote student learning. A major area for improvement is in encouraging lecturers to teach using more explicit methods so that students can move from where they are in their literacy competence to where lecturers expect them to be. The place to explain to students what is expected in a discipline is within that discipline (Skillen et al., 2001), rather than assume that students will automatically see the shift in expectations for each field of study. Although there was substantial consensus about the importance of criticality in lecturers' aims for student learning, this was not adequately translated into literacy practices. Massification has led to a preference for multiple-choice testing which has removed the need to read and write for assessment, inviting students out of the intellectual dialogue that characterizes the various disciplines as they engage critically and thoughtfully with course readings (Svinicki, 2005; Carroll, 2002). The findings of this study indicate that lecturers have only adapted to the changed circumstances of massification in ways that mean that the critical acquisition of academic literacies is diminished. The impact of massification on teaching and learning has resulted in lecturers feeling under pressure to teach in ways that conflict with their personal ideologies. To foster criticality in students lecturers will have to learn new skills as what may happen with a group of 20 cannot be translated into a group of hundred or more. There are policies in place to enhance teaching and learning but few mechanisms to implement them. In the most important sense that the university in its policy statements and course outlines values critical thinking and deep engagement with ideas and concepts, the practices described by students and lecturers are completely in tension. In order to address the literacy difficulties of students, universities will need to actively support lecturers in teaching reform efforts so as to respond to pressures on them to increase their output while maintaining quality. Significant progress is likely to come about only if universities are willing to invest in resources that are needed to experiment with institution-wide changes.

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Beauzac, Christolene Bernardine. "The relationship between an Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) literacy program and women's lives in Semi-urban context, in Cape Peninsula." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2433_1304586568.

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The research employed a qualitative research paradigm. The ethnographic approach was used to conduct the research. Data collection was done though various ethnographic techniques, classroom observation, in-depth interviews and document analysis. The population was 85 women who participated in a Adult Basic Education and Training programme in Eersterivier in the Cape Peninsula area a questionnaire was used to collect demographic information of the participants Data was analysed by thematic analysis and coded, categorised and discussed according to the aim and objectives of the study in relation to previous studies The main findings were why exploring the existing literacy practice women were depended on others for literacy assistance, which made them avoid literacy events and become vulnerable in this process to cope with the everyday life.

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Varisli, Tugce. "Evaluating Eighth Grade Students&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610808/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate eighth grade students&rsquo
environmental literacy (knowledge, attitude, sensitivity and concern) level and to assess effects of socio-demographic variables (gender, parents&rsquo
educational level, parents&rsquo
work status and source of information about environmental knowledge) on their environmental literacy level. A total of 437 (212 girls and 225 boys) eight grade public school students are administered Environmental Literacy Test which includes four parts
knowledge (20 items), attitude (10 items), sensitivity (19 items), concern (12 items). Descriptive analysis showed that students have positive attitude and high degrees of concern and sensitivity toward environment
however they have low to moderate levels of environmental knowledge. In order to evaluate the role of socio-demographic variables on students&rsquo
environmental literacy level, six separate one-way MANOVAs were conducted. The results revealed that
a) there is significant effect of gender on students&rsquo
environmental literacy regarding to concern, in favor of girls, b) there is a significant effect of parents&rsquo
educational level on students&rsquo
environmental literacy
c) there is a significant effect of mothers&rsquo
work status on students&rsquo
environmental literacy and d) there is not a significant effect of source of information about environment on students&rsquo
environmental literacy.

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Grissom, Donita. "Hope and Low Level Literacy of Haitians in Petit-Goave: Implications for Hope Theory and Adult Literacy Education." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6281.

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This cross-sectional study extended Snyder's Hope Theory (1991) by analyzing the difference in trait hope levels, pathway thinking, and agency thinking of pre-literate (no prior access to literacy) and non-literate (access to literacy, but little or no prior literacy education) Haitian adults. The data were derived from archival records of 135 students enrolled in Haitian-Kreyol adult literacy classes in Petit-Goave, Haiti. Mann-Whitney U results indicated that there were no significant differences in trait hope, pathway thinking, or agency thinking between the pre-literate and non-literate Haitian adults. Both groups reported average trait hope, average pathway thinking, and low agency thinking. Potential implications for adult literacy program and curriculum developers, evaluators, and teachers are discussed.
Ph.D.
Doctorate
Education and Human Performance
Education; TESOL Track

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Meindl, Sheila Marie. "Training volunteers to improve reading instruction for illiterate adults with learning disabilities /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1988. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10808103.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1988.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Frances Partridge Connor. Dissertation Committee: Leonard S. Blackman. Bibliography: leaves 68-75.

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Lemos, Sandra Monteiro. "Programa Alfabetiza Rio Grande : a "importância de voltar a estudar" na produção textual de alfabetizandos adultos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/13491.

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Esta dissertação de Mestrado apresenta como foco de investigação a produção textual de jovens e adultos que integraram turmas de alfabetização no programa governamental Alfabetiza Rio Grande, que se desenvolveu entre os anos de 2003 e 2006, no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. O material empírico da pesquisa constituiu-se de 47 textos que integraram a publicação da Secretaria de Estado da Educação do RS, em 2005, intitulada “Jovens e Adultos: ressignificação dos saberes no mundo letrado”, da série Cadernos Pedagógicos 2005/2006. De um conjunto de 124 produções textuais de alunos que freqüentaram o programa durante os anos de 2005/2006, selecionou 47, a partir do eixo temático “importância de voltar a estudar”, produzindo três categorias apresentadas no capítulo das análises. Tal distribuição foi assim categorizada: “a presença dos mitos constituindo verdades”, “referências aos usos sociais da escrita e da leitura” e “a ‘escrita de si’”. Contando com o aporte teórico-metodológico dos Estudos Culturais e dos Estudos de Alfabetismo, esta pesquisa olha para o sujeito construído e identificado como “analfabeto” buscando fugir das narrativas canônicas, ao “desnaturalizar” sua invenção, buscando suas origens. Os Estudos Culturais apresentam um entendimento de cultura que não faz distinção entre alta e baixa cultura e trata todas as manifestações culturais como práticas de significação. Dessa forma, permitem lançar um olhar de estranhamento sobre os discursos que envolvem a invenção dos termos “alfabetismo” e “analfabetismo”, bem como discutir a forma como acontece sua “materialização” nos discursos, por meio da análise das representações que recebem as equações alfabetização e escolarização e alfabetismo e escolarização e, assim, evidenciar as continuidades e os deslocamentos por que passaram determinados mitos que influenciaram a escolarização da população, desde o século XIX até o século XXI, traduzidos em progresso econômico, social e individual e sua relação com a capacidade para o emprego. O trabalho foi elaborado contando com a contribuição de autores como Iole Maria Faviero Trindade, Rosa Hessel Silveira, Jorge Larrosa, Brian Street, Harvey Graff, Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Alfredo Veiga-Neto, dentre outros. Ao olhar para as produções dos alunos, fazendo uso da análise textual, esse estudo examinou alguns dos “mitos” em relação às expectativas da alfabetização e de escolarização desses alunos, os usos sociais que fizeram da escrita e da leitura, bem como as habilidades que demonstraram de seu uso e o quanto a “experiência de si”, através da escrita, pode aproximá-los de um (re)conhecimento maior ou menor do domínio dessas competências. Pontuou, também, que as práticas de leitura e escrita, uma vez estando presentes em suas tarefas cotidianas, poderiam lhes estimular a buscar cada vez mais a competência nos seus usos. De certa forma, tal sentido, atribuído a essas práticas, parece promover a “desmistificação” de determinadas crenças “salvacionistas” e “redentoras” que cercam a alfabetização e o alfabetismo.
This master’s dissertation focuses upon young and adult textual production making up literacy classes in the state programme Alfabetiza Rio Grande, developed between 2003 and 2006 in Rio Grande do Sul. The research empirical material has 47 texts integrating the State Education Department publication entitled Jovens e Adultos: ressignificação dos saberes no mundo letrado in the series 2005/2006 Pedagogical Copybooks in RS in 2005. From a set of 124 textual productions by students attending the programme in 2005/2006, one examined 47 ones in a subject thread of ‘how important it is to go to school again’, producing three categories introduced in the analysis chapter. The distribution was the following: ‘the presence of myths shaping truths’, ‘references to reading and writing social uses’ and ‘writing about the self’. Counting upon theoretical and methodological contributions from Cultural Studies and Literacy Studies, this research looks at the subject constructed and identified as ‘illiterate’, seeking to escape from canonical narratives, by unnaturalizing his/her invention, searching his/her origins. The Cultural Studies provide an understanding of culture that makes no distinction between high and low culture treating all as cultural manifestations as meaning practices. Thus, they allow us to have a stranger look at discourses involving invention of terms like ‘literacy teaching’ and ‘illiteracy’, as well as to discuss by analyzing representations receiving equations literacy teaching/schooling and literacy/ schooling, and thus evincing continuities and displacing particular myths have undergone which effected upon the population schooling since the 19th century up to the 21st, rendered in economic, social and individual progress and its relation with skill for job. The work was performed with the contribution of theorists like Iole Maria Faviero Trindade, Rosa Hessel Silveira, Jorge Larrosa, Brian Street, Harvey Graff, Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Alfredo Veiga-Neto, and others. By looking at the students’ productions, through the textual analysis lens, this study examined some of the ‘myths’ in relation to expectations of literacy and schooling for these students, the social uses of reading and writing, as well as skills they showed of its use and to how the ‘experience of the self’, through writing, can put them closer to a conscience of the mastering of these skills. It has also pointed that reading and writing practices, once present in the everyday, could encourage them to look for more and more skills. In a way, such meaning ascribed to these practices seems to promote the ‘demythologizing’ of particular ‘saviour’ and ‘Redemptory’ beliefs involving literacy and literacy teaching.

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Parker, Emily G. "ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE READING INTERVENTION LANGUAGE! ON STATE READING PROFICIENCY SCORES FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248101265.

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Alencar, Maria Cristina Macedo 1984. "Práticas sociais de letramento no Acampamento Lourival da Costa Santana = representações e construção de identidades em discursos de adultos não alfabetizados = Literacy social practices of the Costa Santana Lourival village : representations and identity construction in discourses of illiterate adults." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269654.

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Orientador: Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Neste estudo analisamos narrativas de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores rurais não alfabetizados, integrantes do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST), a fim de apreender como estes sujeitos significam suas experiências com a escrita e a sua inserção em práticas de letramento, no cotidiano do acampamento Lourival Santana, no Sudeste Paraense. Esse objetivo se desdobrou nas perguntas sobre como um grupo de adultos não alfabetizados se representa em relação às demandas de leitura e escrita surgidas nas práticas de letramento do acampamento e como (re)constrói suas identidades e os sentidos da escrita. Na procura por respostas a esses questionamentos realizamos pesquisa de cunho etnográfico e interpretativista que se pautou no pressuposto de que se deve investigar a linguagem em uso, uma vez que o sujeito e seu contexto sociocultural constituem o fazer científico (MOITA-LOPES, 2006; SIGNORINI e CAVALCANTI,1998). A partir de tal perspectiva pudemos gerar dados que possibilitaram: a) descrever dois principais eventos de letramento observados no cotidiano do acampamento: assembleia geral ou reunião de coordenação do acampamento e reuniões de Núcleo de Família (NF) e de Setor; b) analisar discursos de um grupo de adultos não alfabetizados sobre suas histórias de letramento e inserção nas práticas de letramento no acampamento Lourival Santana. Na análise dos dados apoiamo-nos em discussões realizadas no âmbito dos estudos socioculturais de letramento (KLEIMAN,1995; ROJO,2009; BARTLETT, 2007; 2003; STREET, 2003; 1984; BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998; ), estudos enunciativos bakhtinianos (BAKHTIN, 2004[1929]; 2002), estudos sobre cultura (SOUSA-SANTOS, 2010; 2000; CANDAU, 2002; CUCHE, 1999; MAHER, 2007), representações sociais e construção de identidades (SILVA, 2010; HALL, 1998; 1997; BAUMAN, 2005). Os resultados nos mostram que há uma supervalorização do poder da escrita nas representações dos sujeitos da pesquisa, particularmente do modelo de escrita escolar que eles têm construído. Assim, se representam como sujeitos de falta e significam negativamente as práticas de letramento que vivenciam no cotidiano do acampamento, apesar de muitos terem se percebido capazes de aprender a ler e escrever a partir da inserção nessas práticas
Abstract: This study analyzes narratives of illiterate rural workers who are members of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in order to assimilate the strategies theses workers take to give sense to their experiences with writing as well as their insertion in literacy practices of the everyday life of Santana Lourival village, located in southeast of the state of Pará. This goal has given rise to some questions ont how a group of illiterate adults represent themselves in relation to the demands of written literacy practices which have been occurring in the village and who these workers (re) construct their identities and the meaning of writing. In searching for answers to these questions we made ethnographic and interpretative research based on the assumption that one should investigate language in its current use, since the speakers and their social and cultural environment comprise the scientific work (MOITA-LOPES, 2006 ; SIGNORINI; CAVALCANTI, 1998). From this view point our data allowed us a) to describe two leading literacy events observed in the daily life of the citizens of the village: the general assembly or village's coordination and Family Center (NF) and Sector b) analyzing the discourses a group of illiterate adults about their histories of literacy and inclusion in the literacy practices in Lourival Santana village. In order to develop our analysis of the data we took into account reliable discussions on sociocultural studies of literacy (KLEIMAN, 1995; ROJO, 2009; BARTLETT, 2007; 2003; STREET, 2003, 1984; BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998;), enunciative Bakhtinian studies ( BAKHTIN, 2004[1929], 2002), cultural studies (SOUSA-SANTOS, 2010, 2000; CANDAU, 2002; CUCHE, 1999; MAHER, 2007), social representations and identity construction (SILVA, 2010; HALL, 1998; 1997; BAUMAN, 2005). The results show that speakers overestimate the power of the written representation, specially the model of writing they have constructed. Thus, they represent themselves as speakers without literacy abilities and, thus, evaluate negatively the literacy practices they experience in daily life although many of the residents of the village have already noticed they are capable of learning to read and write from the insertion of these practices
Mestrado
Lingua Materna
Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

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Lucien, Caleb Edouard. "The relationship of illiteracy to spiritual maturity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Hellenberg, Johanna. "”Education is for life, not just for school” : En jämförande studie om läs- och skrivutveckling i Gambia och Sverige." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-14510.

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This report describes a comparative study about reading- and writing development in “A-towns school” in The Gambia and in “Villaskolan” in Sweden. The purpose of this study is to compare two teachers in Sweden with two teachers and two volunteers from the school in Gambia, with focus on their thoughts and methods on teaching reading and writing at each school and in their social context. The aim is also to observe and describe how classroom environment at both schools can encourage students to read and write. The theoretical base of this study is rooted in a sociocultural perspective but I have also chosen to illuminate behaviorism and cognitivism. The study is qualitative and the main research methods are interviews and observations of the classrooms. My conclusions are, even though considerable differences in approach and conditions, teachers in both schools work hard and show dedication towards their students. Another finding is that teachers use different techniques and working methods to achieve the same goal -to teach their students to read and write based on what is required of them in their cultural and social context. The different ways of teaching have been caused by the existence of different perceived needs based on culture and tradition. One conclusion is also that read and write requirements for students in the Gambia and Sweden are different from each other. In Sweden there is clearly a higher demand for more advanced reading - and writing skills while one person in the Gambia is perceived to be able to read and write if he/she can handle basic administrative tasks.

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Venkatasubramanian, S. "Illiteracy in India : a multilevel analysis." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302445.

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Rice, Michael Edward. "Literacy and behaviour : the prison reading survey." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313915.

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Paluch, Marta. "Compañeras : systematisation of experiences with adult literacy facilitators in Guatemala." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2019. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/81977/.

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This study explores how a small group of adult literacy facilitators (ALFs) working on a pilot literacy project in a municipality in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, develop their practice. Although many reports have discussed the problems of adult literacy work in the Global South and the shortcomings of available training, very little research has been carried out directly with ALFs, examining the processes through which they develop their educational practice. The thesis reports on a pilot programme which took a dialogic approach inspired by the work of Paulo Freire and with an emphasis on context, meaning and social practice drawn from New Literacy Studies. Learning activities focussed on personal expression and writing as the communication of meaning. Texts for reading were produced from participant writing. The ALFs were trained and supported in implementing the new programme. The research uses Systematisation of Experiences, a Latin American methodology linked to popular education which involves project participants in a collective process of reflection on their experiences, leading to the generation of new knowledge both of the internal dynamics of the programme and the work of the project in relation to the wider context. Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, capital and doxa are used to analyse the socio-political setting in which the pilot programme was situated, observing the positions of the research participants within the field of adult literacy in Guatemala. ALFs operate at the margins of the field, subjected to the power structure of the national literacy programme while having no influence on decisions affecting their work. The thesis traces the trajectories of the individual ALFs through the pilot programme and reports on the collaborative work which enabled the growth of trust and a joint sense of purpose. The narrative form attempts to present the multiple voices of participants in dialogue, emphasising the collective processes of knowledge generation. In spite of the difficulties of working with a radically different approach, ALFs supported each other to make important changes in their practice. They observed how participants in their groups responded to the pilot activities and began to question the traditional methods endorsed by the organisation they worked for. Offered the space to design and develop new activities, they demonstrated the ability to make innovative interventions. However, the ALFs felt unsupported by the national adult literacy programme they work for, which has no policy or strategy to develop a professional approach to adult literacy by investing in the training and retention of ALFs. The thesis concludes with the ALFs' views of how the organisation is failing them and what is needed to improve the provision.

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Yagi, Rie. "Process analysis of a total literacy campaign in India : a case study of Udaipur district, Rajasthan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365519.

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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Carter. "Solving Our Nation’s Health Information Illiteracy: a Simple Plan." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8694.

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Caine, Marjory. "What is creative about creative writing? : a case study of the creative writing of a group of A Level English Language students." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48753/.

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This thesis reports on a case study of the creative writing of A Level English Language students. The research took place over the two year course and involved five students from one class in an 11 – 18, secondary grammar school in the South East of England. The students were aged 16 at the beginning of the case study. There were two girls and three boys, and all from families with little or no tradition of going to university. The research was based on the theoretical framework of the New Literacy Studies (The New London Group, 1996), where literacy is seen as a socially constructed phenomenon. Genres, discourse and creative voices were researched through discourse analysis toolkit to reflect and interrogate the socially constructed literacy event: the two pieces of coursework each participant produced. Additional data was also included to present a kaleidoscopic deep study of the literacy practice through using interviews, domain-mapping and questionnaires. It is also a reflexive study as it has built on findings from earlier studies for the EdD course, and also projects forwards to the continuing tensions in the teaching of English. Although Creative Writing is now an accredited A Level for examination from 2014, and is a valued component of the A Level English Language, in the earlier years of secondary education students have had limited exposure to creative writing. This is due to the effect of the National Curriculum that has shaped the generation of this case study. Creative writing has been marginalised and devalued within the GCSE (paradoxically since the QCA, 2007 Programme of Study for English put greater emphasis on creativity), where there is limited creative writing opportunity: teachers select a title from a possible six which their students respond to. The Department for Education's draft new National Curriculum has a brief reference to creativity in a list where grammar and accuracy are prioritised. There is a tension in what policy statements, including stakeholders such as Ofsted, say about creative writing and what students experience in delivery of the syllabus driven by the National Curriculum. There is also the anomaly that many students have a range of literacy practices as they operate in increasingly multimodal literacies that schools do not recognise as writing experiences. At present, there is much written about creative writing in primary schools and in Higher Education; but the creative writing of young adults following an A Level course is not visible in policy documents, nor the focus of academic research (with a few exceptions such as Dymoke, 2010, and Bluett, 2010). Therefore, it is an area that is worth exploring. The original contribution to knowledge that the thesis provides is a definition of the literacy practice of the creative writing of A Level English Language students. The thesis, through the case study, identifies the range of influences the students draw on and, in particular, the evidence of intertextuality. How the students develop and shape their creative writing through different creative voices, building on the intertextual influences is presented through the lenses of multiple and multimodal data-sets. In conclusion, a pedagogical model is offered for practitioners who perceive echoes with their own educational contexts.

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Brown, Elaine. "Working-class education and illiteracy in Leicester, 1780-1870." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31050.

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This thesis concentrates on elementary and adult working-class education and illiteracy in Leicester between 1780 and 1870. The need for a literate workforce for the town's economic viability is also examined. The introductory chapters argue that economic and social change had had an adverse effect on education. Moreover an educated working class was perceived to be a threat to the existing social order, although the necessity for working-class education became increasingly apparent. Contemporaneously, members of the working class - particularly among the artisans - sought self-improvement, and appreciated the value of education in their desire for political and social reform. A variety of sources were used to trace the development of schools and Sunday schools in Leicester - the majority of which were founded in response to middle-class philanthropy and/or denominational rivalry - but with few exceptions voluntary provision failed to reach the poorest children. The need for more schools, sectarian conflict, and the quality of education were among issues that the Leicester School Board had to resolve. Indeed the effect of education upon illiteracy - measured by the ability to sign the Anglican marriage registers some 15 years later - had become most noticeable by 1890. Evidence for working-class interest in adult education can be seen in an attempt to establish a Mechanics' Institute in Leicester. However this was eventually inaugurated by the middle class to provide scientific and technical education for the working class. Numerous other institutions were founded by philanthropic middle-class reformers, but - with exception of the Working Men's College, and science schools - these tended to concentrate on 'rational recreation'. The study concludes that although Leicester's economy expanded in the second half of the nineteenth century, it was not until about 1881 that the need for a technically-educated literate workforce came to be considered as crucial if Leicester was to compete in foreign markets.

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McCaffery, Juliet D. "Access, agency, assimilation : exploring literacy among adult Gypsies and travellers in three authorities in Southern England." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38614/.

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This thesis explored Gypsies' and Travellers' perceptions of the value and importance of literacy to themselves and their communities. It examined the political and social factors that affected the extent and availability of literacy provision for adult Gypsies and Travellers and their level of participation. It focused on how Gypsies' and Travellers' levels of literacy impacted on their ability to engage effectively with authority. The research focused on two rural and one urban authority in the South of England but also drew on information from neighbouring authorities and Ireland. A qualitative constructivist epistemology was adopted in which ethnography was the main research tool. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and informal conversations with Gypsies and Travellers, public officials and local politicians, a survey of adult education providers, observation of sundry national and local meetings, participant observation and analysis of the discourse and dialogue of two official forums and data from a variety of sources including television programmes and press reports. The research found that Gypsies and Travellers attached little value to textual literacy, did not view literacy as important to economic success and did not perceive the ability to read and write as contributing to their status or self esteem. Other skills were valued more highly. These attitudes challenge dominant education and development discourses which perceive textual literacy as essential to economic achievement, self esteem and status. The research also highlighted a vacuum in literacy and education policy and provision for adult Gypsies and Travellers who were largely invisible in post-school policy documents, even in those purporting to address equality issues. There was no targeted provision in the three authorities, only a few short term projects elsewhere and little interest among providers. Although mainstream provision was available to Gypsy and Travellers as to all adults, those who wished to learn preferred to teach themselves or be taught by friends and family. The research drew on current theories of discourse, power and control. Primary and secondary Discourses impacted on two areas, the absence of educational opportunities for adult Gypsies and Travellers and on their communicative practices and agency. The lack of targeted literacy provision for Gypsies and Travellers was not accidental but a result of deep seated negative attitudes constructed and maintained through the secondary Discourses of dominant groups and bureaucratic institutions. Interviews and observations revealed that language and discourse was more important to Gypsies and Travellers than the ability to read and write, particularly when communicating privately or publicly with authorities. In these contexts, their own primary discourses, learned through home and community practices, were insufficient. The Gypsies and Travellers who were formally educated and were bi-discoursal were able to operate within secondary institutional Discourses. Though others had life experiences which gave them some understanding of the Discourses of power and bureaucracy, they were not able to communicate or challenge as effectively. The research critiques current models of literacy provision for adults. Though aspects of the models can address specific literacy requirements in specific situations, none of the models including New Literacy Studies and critical literacies, sufficiently address the need to become bi-discoursal or develop the agency to affect decisions controlling their lives. Gypsies and Travellers fear formal education will lead to loss of identity, acculturation and assimilation, but without it they may lose what they seek to preserve. Different communities have different aspirations and face different tensions in different circumstances and each will make decisions accordingly. This research on Gypsies' and Travellers' perceptions and uses of literacy provides new insights into complex tensions and contradictions at both an empirical and theoretical level.

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Levitt, Fern. "Exploring the use of MALL with a scaffolded multi-sensory, structured language approach to support development of literacy skills among second-chance EFL learners at a technological-vocational secondary school in Israel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/72418/.

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This thesis describes a qualitative mixed-methods study carried out in a vocational-technical secondary school with second-chance adolescent learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a peripheral area of Israel. The learner population was characterized by complex, socio-economically disadvantaged family backgrounds and a high rate of learning disabilities. The study investigated the effects of a Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) intervention to support the development of basic EFL literacy skills by students who lacked solid foundational English skills. The intervention provided an interactive educational software application, The English Club™, on iPod Touch devices to scaffold learning and review of letter sounds and rules of English, integrate them into words and texts, and practice reading, writing and comprehension. Learners developed literacy skills depending on the level they reached in the application. The English Club follows a scaffolded Multi-Sensory Structured Language (MSL) approach, adapting for struggling EFL learners the Hickey Multi-Sensory Method (Combley, 2001), developed by Kathleen Hickey of the British Dyslexia Institute. Printed books containing the material complemented the use of the MALL. The English teachers at the school chose the learners who participated and determined how to integrate the intervention into their English classrooms. An investigation of the teachers' roles was included in the study. The methodology was primarily action research with case studies of individual learners and teachers. Pre-intervention and post-intervention data on learners' English knowledge, skills, attitudes and opinions and on teachers' attitudes and opinions about use of this MALL intervention was generated via skills assessments and semi-structured interviews. As a participant-teacher-observer, I observed the intervention's use in classes and in sessions with individual students. Changes in skills, attitudes and opinions were analyzed in the framework of Vygotsky's theories of language acquisition and the Zone of Proximal Development as elaborated in Scaffolding Theory. Theories of motivation, literacy and second language acquisition, and how struggling learners experience these, have provided additional lenses for analysis. My goals in performing this study were to understand in depth the whole picture of the intervention, both its effects on students' English skills and attitudes, and the factors that shaped these outcomes. The study's findings contribute to an understanding of the ways in which delivering a scaffolded MSL approach to literacy education via MALL can contribute to addressing the world crisis in literacy acquisition, and issues that must be addressed for this type of intervention to be effective. Findings showed that learners who actively engaged in the intervention made significant progress in their English literacy skills, increased their confidence in their ability to learn English and thus their willingness to engage in learning, and demonstrated increased awareness of the connection between their own investment of effort and learning. This success was shaped by many factors, including variation among individual learner profiles, the degree of teachers' support for the intervention, increasing students' motivation to invest effort, minimizing disruptions to the students' learning routine, and maximizing access to charged, working devices and to books. The individual MALL delivery platform enabled an untrained, inexperienced but committed teacher to provide the benefits of this scaffolded method, appropriate to her learners' needs, in multi-level English classrooms and to provide a solution for students returning from extended absences to catch up with missed classwork. Recommendations for policy and practice include use of such scaffolded MSL MALL applications with struggling language learners in conjunction with printed materials and closely accompanied by committed teachers, who do not have to be highly trained in specialized methods to support learning by struggling students. Schools engaging in such interventions need to ensure that the devices will be fully available for use during learning hours, minimize disruptions to the class schedule, and maximize students' use of the MALL app and books in class, during free time at school, and at home. If necessary, extrinsic rewards should be offered to overcome students' learned helplessness.

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Sperrhake, Renata. "O saber estatístico como dizer verdadeiro sobre a alfabetização, o analfabetismo e o alfabetismo/letramento." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/72138.

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Nesta Dissertação de Mestrado tenho como objetivo compreender de que modo o saber estatístico se constitui em um dizer de verdadeiro e como ele opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento. Tal estudo se inscreve no referencial teórico-metodológico dos Estudos Culturais em Educação em vertente pós-estruturalista. Inspiro-me nas teorizações de Michel Foucault e utilizo os conceitos de discurso, verdade, biopolítica e governamentalidade. Com o primeiro movimento que realizei no trabalho busquei elencar alguns aspectos históricos e técnicos da constituição da estatística, pois se supõe que esses elementos (históricos e técnicos) conferem às estatísticas um status de verdade. Também trouxe as contribuições de Michel Foucault ao estudo do saber estatístico como um saber necessário ao governamento da população. O segundo movimento consistiu-se em pesquisar as maneiras pelas quais os saberes sobre a leitura e a escrita são quantificados, com quais instrumentos, a partir de quais entendimentos sobre alfabetização e alfabetismo/letramento. Assim, analisei algumas formas de produção de estatísticas sobre alfabetização, analfabetismo e alfabetismo/letramento. O material empírico da pesquisa é composto por artigos acadêmicos de revistas de Educação e de Estatística, resumos de dissertações e teses, e por matérias jornalísticas de publicações impressas e digitais. Nas análises mostrei que o saber estatístico opera na produção discursiva da alfabetização de três maneiras: como material empírico, como procedimento metodológico e fazendose referência às estatísticas ou ao saber estatístico. Além disso, mostrei que essa produção discursiva opera com dados estatísticos utilizando tanto percentuais quanto números absolutos para uma mesma informação, trazendo rankings e mostrando dados que possibilitam comparações. A partir das análises pude mostrar ainda algumas estratégias utilizadas para “fazer falar” os dados, como os comentários dos especialistas, e foi possível visibilizar a formação de professores como a causa e a solução para os baixos e para os altos índices de alfabetização e de alfabetismo/letramento. Discuti a invenção dos níveis de alfabetismo/letramento entendendo-os nesta pesquisa como gradiente de alfabetismo/letramento que operam na multiplicação das posições do sujeito alfabetizado. Em síntese, com as diferentes análises realizadas nessa dissertação, mostrei que o saber estatístico opera como um dizer verdadeiro na produção discursiva da alfabetização, do analfabetismo e do alfabetismo/letramento, na medida em que é capaz de produzir saberes que posicionam os sujeitos quando da sua relação com a leitura e a escrita.
This Master Thesis aims to understand how the statistical knowledge constitutes a discourse of truth and how it operates in the discursive production of literacy, alphabetization and illiteracy / literacy. This study falls within the theoretical and methodological framework of Cultural Studies in Education in a poststructuralist strand. Based upon theories of Michel Foucault, the concepts of discourse, truth, biopolitics and governmentality are found here. This paper has aimed primarily to list some historical and technical aspects of the constitution of statistics, because it is assumed that these elements (historical and technical) provide statistics a status of truth. As well as, it was brought the contributions of Michel Foucault to the study of statistical knowledge as a needed knowledge to govern the population. The second motion consisted in researching the ways in which knowledge about reading and writing are quantified, with which instruments, from which understandings about alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. Thus, some ways of producing statistics on alphabetic literacy, literacy and illiteracy / literacy were analyzed. The research’s empirical material consists of academic papers and magazines of Education and Statistics, besides, newspaper articles of printed and digital publications. The analyses showed that the statistical knowledge operates in the discursive production of literacy in three ways: as empirical material, methodological procedure and by making reference to statistics or statistical knowledge. Furthermore, it was shown that this discourse production operates statistical data using both percentages and absolute numbers for the same information, also bringing rankings and showing data that allow comparisons. The analyses also showed some strategies used to "talk to" the data, as the comments from experts, and allowed visualization of teacher’s educational background as a cause and solution for the low and high rates of alphabetization and alphabetic literacy / literacy. There were discussions on the invention of levels of alphabetic literacy / literacy, understanding them in this research as gradient of alphabetic literacy / literacy operating in proliferation of the literate subjects’ position. In summary, the different analyzes performed in this dissertation showed that the statistical knowledge operates as a real ‘say’ in the discursive production of alphabetization, alphabetic literacy and illiteracy / literacy, as it is capable of producing knowledge that positions the subject related to reading and writing.

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Lott, Donalyn L. "Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1460.

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Abstract Examining the efficacy of literacy improvement, general education development (GED) completion, and GED completers’ perceptions of college readiness and social capital was the purpose of this study. The participant sample (n=321), derived from the target population (N=1050), consisted of former participants of Adult Literacy Education (ALE)/GED programs in the Greater New Orleans area (GNO), who have earned the GED credential, and, are currently enrolled in entry-level courses at two community colleges in Southeast Louisiana; specifically, in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes. The study was framed by the social capital theoretical perspective. The study used quantitative methodology, with a descriptive, cross-sectional research design. Specific quantitative analyses were employed including; descriptive statistics which were used to characterize the sample and to describe the features of the data; preliminary analysis using principal axis factoring (PAF), to determine survey items that cluster together and to identify relevant factors that influence perceptions of college readiness and social capital; Cronbach’s alpha, to test internal consistency and reliability of the survey instrument; regression analysis, to investigate the relationships between GED completers’ perceptions of college readiness and social capital and their literacy level; and finally, a one-way ANOVA, to compare the means of groups within literacy levels. Using a researcher-created survey instrument with a Likert scale rating of 1-4, perceptions of college readiness and social capital of GED completers were assessed. A field test of 10 participants and an expert panel review ensured validity and reliability of the instrument. The results of this study could serve as a framework for strategic planning of ALE/GED programs, ALE/GED curriculum alignment with high school content and entry-level introductory or developmental college courses, and post-secondary (community college) recruitment endeavors.

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Chawla, Deepika. "Increasing girls' participation in education: understanding the factors affecting parental decision-making in rural Orissa India." Thesis, Boston University, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33423.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
Illiterate women have high levels of fertility and mortality, poor nutritional status, low earning potential, and little autonomy within the household. Yet, large populations of women in many developing countries continue to be illiterate. In India over 11 million girls do not go to school at all and 18 million drop out after grade five. As a result 151 million mothers are likely to be uneducated or minimally educated. Thus the problem is very acute. Issues related to effective demand are widely recognized among policymakers in India as being critical to ensuring the existence of effective demand for education. However, there have been few efforts to analyze the impact of these factors. This study attempts to fill this gap. This study examines the views and beliefs of those who make or influence decisions on behalf of girls that impact continuation of the girls in schools when they reach the age of adolescence. Set in a village in the eastern state of Orissa in India, the study analyzes the opinions of mothers, fathers, village elders, teachers and the girls themselves, and identifies the factors that influence the girls' continuation in the education cycle. The study finds that education and educational decision-making are family matters, and parents are the key decision-makers. While most parents support children going to school, negative parental attitudes toward educating daughters constitute a significant barrier to girls' education. Many parents report that sending daughters to school and educating them above a certain level results in problems finding a suitable groom. Further, educated girls would need to marry educated boys, thereby increasing expectations and demand for dowry. Some also report that girls should be taken out of school at the onset of menarche since then they need closer supervision and parental control. The study findings highlight the importance of effecting changes in parental attitudes about girls' education if meaningful improvements have to be brought about, and offer valuable insights for consideration in developing strategies related to girls' access to and retention in primary schooling.
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Sharp, L. Kathryn. "Got Literacy…?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4273.

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Follette, Katherine Brutlag. "Filling in the Gaps: Illuminating (a) Clearing Mechanisms in Transitional Protoplanetary Disks, and (b) Quantitative Illiteracy among Undergraduate Science Students." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/338735.

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What processes are responsible for the dispersal of protoplanetary disks? In this dissertation, beginning with a brief Introduction to planet detection, disk dispersal and high-contrast imaging in Chapter 1, I will describe how ground-based adaptive optics (AO) imaging can help to inform these processes. Chapter 2 presents Polarized Differential Imaging (PDI) of the transitional disk SR21 at H-band taken as part of the Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS). These observations were the first to show that transition disk cavities can appear markedly different at different wavelengths. The observation that the sub-mm cavity is absent in NIR scattered light is consistent with grain filtration at a planet-induced gap edge. Chapter 3 presents SEEDS data of the transition disk Oph IRS 48. This highly asymmetrical disk is also most consistent with a planet-induced clearing mechanism. In particular, the images reveal both the disk cavity and a spiral arm/divot that had not been imaged previously. This study demonstrates the power of multiwavelength PDI imaging to verify disk structure and to probe azimuthal variation in grain properties. Chapter 4 presents Magellan visible light adaptive optics imaging of the silhouette disk Orion 218-354. In addition to its technical merits, these observations reveal the surprising fact that this very young disk is optically thin at H-alpha. The simplest explanation for this observation is that significant grain growth has occurred in this disk, which may be responsible for the pre-transitional nature of its SED. Chapter 5 presents brief descriptions of several other works-in-progress that build on my previous work. These include the MagAO Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS), which will probe the inner regions of transition disks at unprecedented resolution in search of young planets in the process of formation. Chapters 6-8 represent my educational research in quantitative literacy, beginning with an introduction to the literature and study motivation in Chapter 6. Chapter 7 describes the development and validation of the Quantitative Reasoning for College Science (QuaRCS) Assessment instrument. Chapter 8 briefly describes the next steps for Phase II of the QuaRCS study.

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Evanshen, Pamela. "Preschool Literacy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4420.

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MacKay, Tommy. "Improving children's literacy in areas of socio-economic disadvantage : the design and evaluation of a strategy to address underachievement and illiteracy." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417344.

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McVittie, Janet Elizabeth. "Literacy, science, and science education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0028/NQ51900.pdf.

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Tai, Chih-Che, Karin J. Keith, R. Bailey, and W. Smith. "STEM and Literacy in Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3297.

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Tai, Chih-Che, S. Starnes, Karin J. Keith, Renee Moran, and Laura Robertson. "STEM and LIteracy in Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3298.

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Prince, Nanette Marie. "Balanced literacy in primary education." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1655.

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Sharp, L. Kathryn. "Early Literacy Workstations." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4301.

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Towle, Brenna Renee. "Literacy mentorship| Negotiating pedagogical identities around disciplinary literacy strategy instruction." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3629864.

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This qualitative study examined a professional development model of literacy coaching in which secondary content teachers were trained in literacy strategy instruction and in literacy mentorship. I attempted to understand the negotiation of pedagogical identities of content teachers engaged in literacy strategy instruction within their own classrooms while also providing literacy mentorship for a peer within the district. Data sources included interviews, video of strategy instruction, field notes, and artifacts from three participants in a suburban high school. Findings revealed that participants engaged in strategy instruction in their own practices and identified themselves regularly as literacy strategy experts within the district but not typically as mentoring experts. Three metaphors were used to explore the separate identities exhibited by the teachers in their role of mentor: the Peer Coach; the Content Warrior, and the Fake Mentor. The findings also revealed that cooperative reflection around video of strategy instruction was essential for negotiation of identity. Several implications for administrators, teachers, teacher educators and professional development were drawn from the findings of this study in regard to developing and selecting professional development models around disciplinary literacy strategy instruction.

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Dewing, Joy Elise. "A two-tiered approach to a Buddy Reading Programme for struggling adolescent readers." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7577/.

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This thesis reports on a study of the effects of a two-tiered Buddy Reading Programme on the reading skills of 12 to 14 year old middle school students in a high-poverty urban school in a Midwestern United States school. The research took place during one school year with white and African American students. The research, influenced by action research, was in the form of a Buddy Reading intervention programme using a reciprocal teaching model, within a constructivist paradigm. The key finding of the study was that the social nature of the programme allowed the middle school students to rehearse texts, engage in dialogue surrounding texts, and led to improvement in the affective aspects of reading, as well as in reading skills. This social aspect led many of the students to engage in literacy activities beyond those required either for the programme or in classroom instruction. A second finding of the study was that a comprehensive, balanced approach to literacy instruction was effective for simulating the process of reading for the struggling readers and leading them to emulate the reading processes of proficient readers. Through the programme, the students were immersed in a literacy-rich environment and interacted with texts in a positive, natural way.

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Atkins, Sarah-Jane. "Constructing visual literacy." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070320.162932/index.html.

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Rigell, Amanda, Amy Broemmel, and Cassie K. Norvell. "Examining Awareness of Literacy Demands Before and After Literacy Education Instruction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5926.

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Sharp, L. Kathryn, and Susan Lewis. "Top Ten Literacy Tips." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4250.

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Miller, Heidi Thomson. "Evaluating the effectiveness of first grade literacy interventions| Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention." Thesis, Bethel University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3690941.

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This is a quantitative research project utilizing secondary data. Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention are two early literacy interventions based on a whole language and phonetic approach to reading instruction. For the purposes of this study, the end-of-first-grade benchmark is a Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) 18 and the end-of-second-grade benchmark is a DRA 30. This study utilizes descriptive analyses, ANOVA, and ANCOVA analyses of variance, and regression analyses to determine which programs bring tier 3, non-special education readers to grade level status at the conclusion of first grade. Reading Recovery successfully brings first-grade students to grade level status (p = .002), and 47.1% of students who participated in this intervention met the end-of-first-grade benchmark. Overall, their mean end-of-kindergarten DRA score was a text level 3, and their mean end-of-first-grade DRA score was a text level 16. For students who participated in Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI), 35.3% met the end-of-first-grade benchmark. Overall, their mean end-of-kindergarten DRA score was a text level 3, and their mean end-of-first-grade DRA score was a text level 14. LLI was not found to be statistically significant (p = .607). For students who participated in both Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention, 30.1% met the end-of-first-grade benchmark. Overall, their mean end-of-kindergarten DRA score was a text level 3, and their mean end-of-first-grade DRA score was a text level 14. The combination RR and LLI group was not found to be statistically significant (p = .877).

According to this study, for students who participate in either Reading Recovery or Leveled Literacy Intervention, a child’s gender (ANOVA p = .000, ANCOVA p = .000), and ethnicity (ANOVA Black p = .214, Other p = .067; ANCOVA Black p = .765, Other p = .556) is not a significant predictor of their end-of-first-grade DRA level. Depending upon the analysis conducted, a child’s free or reduced lunch rate (ANOVA p = .005, ANCOVA p = .283) is a significant predictor of their end-of-first grade DRA level F(2,1) = 5.416, p = .005 with an R² value of .033 and an error of 612. As anticipated, a child’s initial kindergarten DRA level remains the most significant predictor of their end-of-first-grade DRA level (ANOVA p = .000, ANCOVA p = .000). The lowest scoring students in kindergarten tend to also be the lower scoring students at the end of first and second grades. The second greatest predictor for children who do not participate in Reading Recovery or Leveled Literacy Intervention is the child’s free or reduced lunch rate (p = .005). However, when an ANCOVA analysis of variance analyzed only students with a complete data set, kindergarten through second grade, a child’s lunch rate (p = .283) was shown not to be a significant predictor of end-of-first-grade DRA reading level. Additionally, a child’s lunch rate is not shown to be a significant predictor of a child’s text growth gain.

The study follows students who met the end-of-first-grade DRA 18 benchmark into second grade to ascertain if the students are able to maintain their grade level status. For students who participated in Reading Recovery and met the end-of-first-grade benchmark, 58.7% also met the end-of-second-grade benchmark. Their mean end-of-second-grade DRA score was a text level 30. For students who participated in Leveled Literacy Intervention and met the end-of-first-grade benchmark, 62.8% also met the end-of-second-grade benchmark. Their mean end-of-second-grade DRA score was a text level 30. For students who participated in both Reading Recovery and Leveled Literacy Intervention and met the end-of-first-grade benchmark, 53.8% also met the end-of-second-grade benchmark. Their mean end-of-second-grade DRA score was a text level 28.

Finally, the study utilized a regression analysis to determine if there is a difference in reading achievement growth based upon a student’s participation in Reading Recovery or Leveled Literacy Intervention. All analyses were controlled for initial DRA level, gender, ethnicity, and free or reduced lunch rate. The results found that while both programs appear to be moving students towards grade level status, Reading Recovery’s results are significant (p = .002), LLI’s results are not significant (p = .607), and the combination group of both RR and LLI are not significant (p = .877). According to this one year study, for students who participated in Reading Recovery or Leveled Literacy Intervention as first graders, once a child learns how to read, the variables—initial DRA level, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status—do not affect a child’s continued reading achievement.

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Perez, Susan Carew. "Literacy as ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Geiken, Rosemary, and L. Kathryn Sharp. "Literacy and Science Integration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4289.

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Yilmaz, Arif. "Facilitating literacy support partnership for literacy curriculum improvement in a Head Start program." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297943.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2008.
Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 30, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 0870. Adviser: Mary B. McMullen.

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Free, Loretta Dianna. "Improving academic literacy at higher education." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/839.

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This study is a deliberation on students who advance from high school to a higher education institution, without demonstrating the attributes required on admission. They are granted formal access, despite being underprepared for tertiary studies. One of the qualities that they noticible lack is academic literacy. In the course of this investigation, academics had to relate what their perceptions were of the academic literacy of their students at higher education level. Initially, being literate meant the ability to read and write, but the term literacy has assumed a more varied form. The term multi-literacies is employed now, as there are several forms of literacy. These include, Information Technology, Technology, pictorial and numerical literacies, to name a few. Academic literacy constitutes more than one literacy, namely, operational or functional literacy, cultural literacy and critical literacy. These literacies are elaborated on and the role of language proficiency, together with the inter-relatedness between students' linguistic competence and their cognitive ability are discussed in depth. Alternatives are examined to assess how this problem of the lack of academic literacy can be circumvented and what mechanisms can be put in place in order that students can be assisted in their pursuit of academic literacy.

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Tai, Chih-Che, Reba Bailey, Karin J. Keith, Scott Lamie, and Steve Starnes. "STEM and LIteraCy in Education (SLICE)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3272.

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The vision of this project, Science and LIteraCy in Education (SLICE) seeks to enable grades 4-12 STEM and Literacy teachers to reach for excellence in elementary, middle and high school STEM and Literacy education through Hands-on, Standards-based, Project-based and Technology-based (HSPT-based) learning environments. The outlined project assists region-wide elementary, middle and high school teachers to (1) gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter, (2) connect Practices between Common Core State Standards in Literacy and Math, and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and (3) utilize cross-cutting concepts promoted in NGSS to integrate the disciplines of STEM and Literacy. The project represents a partnership among 120 Grades 4-12 STEM and Literacy teachers from fifteen school districts in Tennessee: Hawkins (Lead), Bristol, Carter, Cocke, Elizabethton, Greene, Greeneville, Johnson City, Johnson County, Newport, Kingsport, Rogersville, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington; six business partners (Ballad Health, Cooper Standard, Domtar, Eastman, Nuclear Fuel Services and ZF-TRW); ETSU Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education, School of Graduate Studies and Northeast Tennessee Innovation STEM Hub. This opportunity provides a chance for teachers from surrounding districts to join with STEM and Literacy faculty and professionals to form a strong professional learning community focused on the integration of STEM and Literacy.

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Tai, Chih-Che. "STEM and Literacy in Education (SLICE)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3276.

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Tai, Chih-Che, Karin J. Keith, Renee Rice Moran, Laura Robertson, and T. Jones. "STEM and Literacy in Education (SLICE)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3277.

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Quinnell, Lorna M. "Literacy in mathematics in preservice education." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101162/1/Lorna_Quinnell_Thesis.pdf.

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Literacy in mathematics is an important topic in education, and one that is still poorly understood. This thesis is a comprehensive report on the teaching and learning of mathematics through the literacy lens, leading to the development of a model to guide the teaching and learning of literacy in mathematics. The research has practical implications, particularly for mathematics education courses in preservice primary teacher education programs. The study is particularly important due to the unique demands of literacy in mathematics, a key element of the content of mathematics.

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Smyser, Heather, and Heather Smyser. "The Goldilocks of Variability and Complexity: The Acquisition of Mental Orthographic Representations in Emergent Refugee Readers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621067.

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Refugee adult language learners in the United States need alphabetic print literacy in English in order to successfully integrate into their adoptive societies and find meaningful employment. Accurate spelling and word recognition are important for completing forms about medical history, school paperwork, job applications, and social benefits. To aid in their integration, adult refugees are often enrolled in English courses targeted to those with low levels of education and alphabetic print literacy. However, many leave without having achieved a level of print literacy necessary for economic or social purposes. Current teaching approaches for alphabetic print literacy are either social- (Bigelow & Vinogradov, 2011) or skills-based (Burt, Peyton,& Adams, 2003; Haverson & Haynes, 1982) approaches. They are ineffective for meeting student learning needs within the six-month time frame for self-sufficiency imposed by U.S. refugee resettlement (U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, 2015). The purpose of this project was to see if using two principles of implicit learning: variability and complexity, would help low literate refugee English learners enrolled in English classes to accurately spell and perceive words in their curriculum. Specifically, the use of high variability visual input was contrasted with high and low linguistic complexity. Stimuli with high visual variability and low linguistic complexity proved the right combination for successful word learning for this population.

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Welsh, Ryan Charles. "On improvisation, learning, and literacy." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3636175.

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Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning through a lens of improvisation that enhances the description and better equips researchers to analyze this quality. This project synthesizes numerous research threads and theories from theater (Halpern, 1994, 2005; Johnstone, 1992; Spolin, 1999), anthropology (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, & Cain, 2003), psychology (Sawyer, 2011b; Vygotsky, 1978), and literary theory (Bakhtin, 1981) in an effort to provide a theory of improvisation that could be deployed in future qualitative studies or serve as a way for literacy teachers to think about their classrooms. A theory of improvisation enables qualitative researchers in the field of education to acquire a more thorough understanding of the way literacies are an improvised process in scenes of learning. This project is necessary because no such theory yet exists. As part of theorizing literacy and improvisation, I draw upon scenes from my own teaching and from theatrical improvisation. I analyze these moments to illustrate various theoretical premises such as instances of "yes, and-ing" that carry a scene of learning forward. This theory building and analysis amount to a first iteration of improv theory.

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