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Lupton, Mandy. "Information literacy and learning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16665/1/Mandy_Lupton_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explores the relationship between information literacy and learning. In formal education, students are frequently required to independently find and use information to learn about a topic, and information literacy is often claimed to be a generic skill and graduate attribute. However, to date; the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning has not been investigated.
In order to investigate this experience, I have based this research on interviews with 19 students enrolled in third year music composition courses, and 18 students enrolled in a third year tax law course at an Australian university. My primary research question was 'What is the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning?' The secondary research question was "What are the generic and situated aspects of information literacy?'
In this study, I have used phenomenography to describe the qualitatively different ways that students in two distinct disciplines experience the relationship between information literacy and learning. I have suggested curriculum implications of this description based on a relational approach to learning and teaching. The outcomes of the study include two related sets of categories which map the experience of students in music composition and tax law, and the theoretical GeST windows model for information literacy which is based upon literacy models and theories.
The key findings of this study include:
* A description of the nature of the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning in music composition and tax law as 1) Applying, 2) Discovering and 3) Expressing (music) or Understanding (tax law);
* the theoretical GeST windows model and alignment of the model with the empirical study;
* the presentation of curriculum implications in music and tax law, and
* an exploration of the nature of information as-it-is-experienced.
The findings may be used by teachers, students, librarians, academic skills advisors,
academic developers and policy makers in higher education.
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Lupton, Mandy. "Information literacy and learning." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16665/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between information literacy and learning. In formal education, students are frequently required to independently find and use information to learn about a topic, and information literacy is often claimed to be a generic skill and graduate attribute. However, to date; the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning has not been investigated. In order to investigate this experience, I have based this research on interviews with 19 students enrolled in third year music composition courses, and 18 students enrolled in a third year tax law course at an Australian university. My primary research question was 'What is the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning?' The secondary research question was "What are the generic and situated aspects of information literacy?' In this study, I have used phenomenography to describe the qualitatively different ways that students in two distinct disciplines experience the relationship between information literacy and learning. I have suggested curriculum implications of this description based on a relational approach to learning and teaching. The outcomes of the study include two related sets of categories which map the experience of students in music composition and tax law, and the theoretical GeST windows model for information literacy which is based upon literacy models and theories. The key findings of this study include: * A description of the nature of the experienced relationship between information literacy and learning in music composition and tax law as 1) Applying, 2) Discovering and 3) Expressing (music) or Understanding (tax law); * the theoretical GeST windows model and alignment of the model with the empirical study; * the presentation of curriculum implications in music and tax law, and * an exploration of the nature of information as-it-is-experienced. The findings may be used by teachers, students, librarians, academic skills advisors, academic developers and policy makers in higher education.
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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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<p> 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.</p>
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Xhafaj, Donesca Cristina Puntel. "L1 literacy and L2 learning." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95813.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-26T06:10:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
299970.pdf: 1456490 bytes, checksum: 3312a834a995a4d8eadf3ba0d7da9bbb (MD5)<br>Bigelow e Tarone (2004) propõem que aprendizes de língua estrangeira (LE) com níveis baixos de letramento em língua materna (LM), e, por conseqüência, com limitações em consciência metalingüística, terão dificuldades de perceber a diferença entre a sua produção em LE e o insumo recebido. Todavia, esses pesquisadores não mediram o nível de consciência metalingüística de seus participantes em nenhum dos estudos que conduziram. Sendo assim, dados foram coletados com 24 brasileiros (com nível básico de inglês como LE), que fizeram testes de letramento em LM (PISA), consciência metalingüística (fonológica, morfológica e sintática) em LM e LE, e pré- e pós-testes de proficiência em LE (KET). Os objetivos do estudo foram averiguar se há correlação entre o nível de consciência metalingüística desses aprendizes e seu nível de letramento e verificar se consciência metalingüística em LM e/ou LE e/ou letramento seria eficaz em prever ganhos na proficiência em LE entre os dois testes e a nota final em um semestre de um curso de inglês. A análise dos dados permite argumentar que (1) o letramento e a consciência sintática em LM estão relacionados, (2) a consciência sintática, assim como a fonológica, transferem-se da LM para a LE, (3) a consciência fonológica em LM tem um papel prejudicial no aprendizado de LE, e (4) a consciência sintática em LE tem papel benéfico no aprendizado de LE e leva os aprendizes a alcançarem um nível maior de proficiência. A tese proposta é de que o envolvimento com o código escrito (pelo menos para aqueles aprendizes que não têm limitações na consciência fonológica) leva ao refinamento da consciência sintática. Esse conhecimento, quando transferido para a LE, impulsiona o seu desenvolvimento. De acordo com esses resultados, diferentemente do que Krashen (1982) propôs, existe, sim, um papel para o conhecimento explícito no aprendizado de LE.
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Bruzzese, Roberto, and info@robertobruzzese com. "Teaching Teachers: Learning through Graphic Literacy." RMIT University. Media and Communication, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091028.123950.
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Graphic design education has a long history of practitioners leading the development of teaching environments. While these practitioners may develop innovative teaching methods during their educational career, many will never engage with the discipline and literature of pedagogy. Ramsden (2003) asserts that pedagogical principles can help create deeper teaching/learning environments, but this research is all too often disseminated in a lexicon that is not familiar to new graphic design teachers. The research just does not get the message across to those who could benefit most from it. Although graphic design has had difficulties in translating the pedagogical lexicon to its context, it could use its expertise in the visual language to help create a broader understanding of teaching and learning theories and principles for itself and others. The very visual communication skills that we teach could be a more effective way to communicate to educators the necessary pedagogical theory that is to be used in the classroom. This exegesis documents my exploration of pedagogical awareness in graphic design education and how graphic literacy can facilitate this awareness. Through a reflective practice of reading, designing, teaching and conversation, I have uncovered my perceptions and conceptions as a teacher and discovered how some pedagogical principles can help the teaching and learning environment. I have used this knowledge to create an awareness of these principles through the comic language.
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Laverty, Corinne Y. C. "Resource-based learning : gateway to information literacy." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274593.
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Anderson, Dustin. "Learning, Literacy and LIS : A Thesis Conversation." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18757.
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This position paper deals with the notions of learning and literacy in the context of studying Library and Information Science (LIS). More particularly, it addresses the learning and literacy involved in, and manifested by, its own production. It is about writing this particular master’s thesis in LIS – the persons involved, the forms and terms used, the expectations met or ignored. It converses not only with itself but also with the academic system which is its raison d’être. It is maintained that this conversing is inherently tangled and that the irresolvable disorder is literally glossed over via language. The argument relies largely on linguistic analysis, linking discourse and conceptual levels to their etymological foundations. Elements of action research and autoethnography are used in an attempt to capture and communicate the competitive conversing which propels and frustrates both personal learning and the development of a disciplined thesis. Standardized presentation forms are challenged and modified in order to highlight the underlying, and ongoing, interplay rather than the finished product. It is suggested that this tangled, tentative, personal/institutional conversing characterizes not only learning but also libraries and LIS itself. It is further suggested that literacy of whatever variety remains a matter of reading, of being able to continuously and competitively assess, converse and thereby commune. LIS has good reasons to highlight its inherent, transdisciplinary association with the human capacity to read. The paper includes a critical self-assessment and concludes with a presentation of the quantitative and qualitative data generated by its own production.<br>Uppsatsnivå: D
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Pollock, Susan Patricia. "Literacy barriers to learning and learner experiences." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30847.
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This research is in two phases. The aim of phase one was to explore the school experiences of learners identified as having literacy barriers to learning. Learners were in Year 8 (age 12-13) at the start of the research and Year 9 (age 13-14) by its conclusion. A case study design and the participatory method of ‘photovoice’ was used to elicit and foreground students’ views and experiences. To date there has been little research in this field using participatory methods. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings suggest that the student photographers’ (N=4) were keen to share both their positive and negative experiences of school and in particular the importance they placed on relationships with peers and key staff. The aim of phase two was to use students’ photos, which were developed into individual ‘experience boards’, as a tool to facilitate staff reflections on practice. Three discussion groups (N=7) were held and data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings were viewed and discussed using the framework of Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy of needs. Staff showed a high level of empathy and a desire to interpret and reflect on the photos. The constructs of feeling safe and secure were significant themes across all discussion groups. Furthermore, the lack of photos explicitly about learning challenged staff beliefs about student experiences and enabled them to acknowledge the importance the student photographers placed on these constructs. The use of photovoice stimulated reflection and is likely to have aided staff to better understand student experiences. There are implications for educational psychology practice in relation to taking a more holistic view of understanding and supporting learners with literacy difficulties and also the use of ‘photovoice’ to elicit and foreground student views and experiences as part of consultation or at a more systemic level.
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Lockard, Louise. "Navajo literacy: Stories of learning to write." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186342.
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This study examines the history of Navajo literacy and its meaning in the lives and teaching practices of three Native American Indian bilingual teachers. The autobiographies of the teachers were recorded in the form of life history interviews and analyzed in relation to an historical account of Navajo education which integrates public documents, archival materials, research in literacy in multi-ethnic communities, and Navajo children's literature. This study includes a bibliography of Navajo language literature from 1940-1990 which has been categorized by title, date, publisher, and curriculum topic.
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Weinberger, Jo. "A longitudinal study of literacy experiences, the role of parents, and children's literacy development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1817/.
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This study investigated the literacy experiences and attainment of 42 children aged 3 to 7, who had attended preschool education in a city in the North of England. Data were collected through parent interviews before nursery entry; literacy assessment at school entry, and at age seven; and by parent, teacher and child interviews. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed. Four measures of literacy development at age seven were used: children's reading book level, writing ability and standardised scores for reading and English at seven. Factors before school entry shown to be significant were: vocabulary scores, number of letters known, how well children wrote their name and a phrase, whether they listened to stories at nursery, and how often they were read to at home. This was influenced by earlier home factors; by having access to books, being read to from storybooks, and having books read in their entirety, the age parents started reading to them, how many nursery rhymes they knew, and parents pointing out environmental print. By seven, other significant factors were parents' knowledge about school literacy, and how often children read to parents at home. Several findings confirmed those of previous studies. Others were new: having a favourite book before nursery, choosing to read books in nursery, access to home computers at seven, children storing literacy resources indiscriminately, parents reading more than newspapers and magazines, and parents providing examples of day-to-day literacy. Process variables appeared to exert greater effects on children's performance than status variables, such as social class, mother's employment and qualifications, and relatives with literacy difficulties. Home literacy experiences for the majority of children were barely acknowledged in school, and home learning for children with problems was often unsupported by school. For most children, homes provided rich, complex and powerful environments for literacy learning.
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Brownfield, Katherine Singleton. "Scaffolding in Literacy Learning and Teaching: The Impact of Teacher Responsiveness During Writing on First Grade Students’ Literacy Learning." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461144877.
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Van, Wyk Jeremy Mark. "The post-literacy perceptions of newly literate adult learners at a rural community learning centre." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20274.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Literature suggests that post-literacy (PL) is a seriously under-researched field in
most African countries including South Africa. From the literature, it also became
evident that, if PL is not viewed as a government priority, a gap will continue to exist
between what PL programmes offer, and what the newly literate adults may need.
Various authors emphasise the importance of PL to prevent relapsing into illiteracy,
the applicability of PL in enhancing everyday private and occupational life, as well as
the potential contribution of PL to poverty reduction, social, economic and political
development and in sustaining communities. The aim of this study was to identify the
PL perceptions of newly literate adults in the PL programme at the Simondium
Community Learning Centre (SCLC) in the Western Cape of South Africa. A basic
qualitative research approach to collect data was undertaken. During the data
production ten semi-structured interviews were conducted, with the individual
participant as the unit of analysis. All interviews were recorded digitally (using a tape
recorder) and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was done using the HyperQual
computer programme to identify, retrieve, isolate and regroup data. The results and
conclusions of data based on the literature studied and findings of the study indicate
a learner-centred PL programme is required which focuses mainly on non-formal and
vocational programmes for sustaining communities and economic development.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Literatuur dui daarop dat nágeletterdheid (NG) is ’n ernstig onder nagevorsde gebied
in die meeste Afrika-lande wat Suid Afrika insluit. Vanuit die literatuur het dit duidelik
geblyk dat, as die regering nie NG as 'n prioriteit beskou nie, 'n gaping sal bly
voortbestaan tussen dit wat nuutgelettterde volwassenes moontlik kan benodig en dit
wat die program bied. Verskeie skrywers benadruk die belangrikheid van NG om 'n
terugval na ongeletterdheid te voorkom, die toepaslikheid van NG om alledaagse
private en beroepslewe te bevorder, asook NG se potensiële bydrae tot
armoedeverligting, maatskaplike, ekonomiese en politieke ontwikkeling en by die
volhoubaarheid van gemeenskappe. Die doel van hierdie studie was om die NGpersepsies
van nuutgeletterde volwassenes in die NG-program by die Simondium
Gemeenskapleersentrum (SGLS) in die Wes-Kaap van Suid-Afrika te identifiseer. ’n
Basiese kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering is gebruik om data te versamel. Tydens
die data versameling is tien semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude gebruik met die
individuele deelnemer as die eenheid van analise. Alle onderhoude is digitaal deur 'n
bandopnemer opgeneem en verbatim getranskribeer. Data-analise is gedoen deur
gebruik te maak van die HyperQual-rekenaarprogram om data te identifiseer, te
herroep, te isoleer en te hergroepeer. Die resultate en opsommings van data
gabaseer op literatuur wat bestudeer is en die bevindinge van die studie, dui aan dat
'n leerder-gesentreerde NG program wat hoofsaaklik fokus op nie-formele en
beroepsgerigte programme vir die volhoubaarheid van gemeenskappe en
ekonomiese ontwikkeling, mag nodig wees binne die bestudeerde konteks.
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Liberg, Caroline. "Learning to read and write." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 1990. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-251889.
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Malcolmson, Elaine. "Coming to terms : an investigation of free-choice learning, scientific literacy and health literacy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6397/.
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The term free-choice learning has received relatively recent support, having been favoured by John Falk from around 2001. Free-choice learning can be described most simply as “the type of learning that occurs most frequently outside of school” (Falk, 2001, p.6). Free-choice science learning has connections with the research areas of science communication, the public understanding of science, public engagement with science and, in particular, informal learning. Additionally, Falk introduced the idea of working knowledge of science as, “knowledge generated by the learner’s own interests and needs” (Falk, Storksdieck and Dierking, 2007, p.464). This thesis explored the terms free-choice learning and working knowledge of science in order to gain a better understanding of their meaning and their importance. The work was carried out to address the following research questions: 1. Can the BodyWorks exhibits be used as a tool to provide evidence of free-choice learning and working knowledge? 2. Can the BodyWorks exhibits be used as a tool to gain a better understanding of free-choice learning and working knowledge? 3. What can be gained from revisiting scientific and health literacy concepts from the perspective of free-choice learning and working knowledge? 4. Can best practice with regards to free-choice learning and working knowledge be shared between the fields of scientific and health literacy? Glasgow Science Centre’s BodyWorks exhibits were used as a tool to empirically investigate free-choice learning and working knowledge. Data were gathered using semi-structured interviews and staff diaries. It was found that 93% of participants referred to some type of free-choice learning experience when discussing the BodyWorks exhibits. A better understanding of free-choice learning and working knowledge was achieved. Free-choice learning and working knowledge were used as a lens through which to revisit the concepts and definitions of scientific literacy and health literacy. This theoretical work provided an insight to key themes developing in this literature and directions for future research. The results of both the empirical and theoretical parts of this thesis combined to produce implications for free-choice learning providers, formal education, the health sector and society. Most importantly the results presented ideas on how these groups could utilise free-choice learning and working knowledge to their benefit.
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Adeyiga, Valda J. "The Relationship between Information Literacy and Global Learning." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3395.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between undergraduate student performance on an information literacy assessment activity and their performance in global learning assessment activities for three global learning outcomes: global awareness, global perspective, and global engagement.
Global learning is the process whereby people from varied backgrounds collaboratively analyze and seek solutions for complex problems that go beyond borders. Important components of global learning are the acquisition, analysis and use of information, relating to complex problems which may include, but are not limited to, poverty, environmental protection and food security. These components of global learning are analogous to information literacy, which represents skills that students apply to recognize, access, evaluate, and use information for decision making.
Students enrolled in global learning courses, at Florida International University, participated in this investigation during the fall of 2016. Data from an 18-question information literacy assessment survey, and results of three global learning assessment activities were collected. Instructors teaching the global learning courses scored the global learning assessment activities. Information literacy and global learning data for 43 students were analyzed using multiple regression correlation methods. Research findings indicate no significant relationship between information literacy and the three global learning outcomes: global awareness, perspective and engagement. Descriptive data analysis show that over 79% (n=34) of participants reported having never received information literacy instruction from a librarian.
Curricular implications include exploring opportunities for exposing students in global learning courses to information literacy processes either by adding information literacy to the general education core curriculum or by integrating information literacy into these courses. Recommendations for future research include replicating this study with a larger sample of students and conducting a study involving an information literacy intervention with pre- and post-test components.
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Price, Heather. "The emotional context of young children's literacy learning." Thesis, University of East London, 2004. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1246/.
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This thesis presents findings from an ethnographic, psychoanalytically informed research project which aimed to investigate the emotional context of young children's literacy learning in the final year of the infant school. Using psychoanalytic observational methods, data was gathered over a two year period in an inner city primary school. The author undertook non-participant observation weekly in classroom settings, and also took children of different abilities, singly and in pairs and triads, for individual teaching sessionsD. rawing on a mixture of ethnographica nd psychoanalyticp rinciples, observationatlr anscriptsw ere analysedt o generateg roundedc onceptualisationso f children's, and to a more limited extent, teachers', conscious and unconscious relationshipst o eacho ther and to the learning task. The classroomi s conceptualiseda s an 'inter-psychic' psychosocialf ield which can be researcheqfr om a number of intersecting vantage points. The thesis reviews the relevant psychosocial literature and research on emotionality and children's literacy learning, together with post-Kleinian Object Relations theory as applied to child and learnerd evelopment.I t discussesk ey methodologicald ebates surrounding clinically and observationally based psychoanalytic research. The aims and methodology of the study are discussed and situated in the context of these reviews. The six data chapters focus respectively on teachers, the task of literacy learning, struggling learners, high achievers and middle range achievers. In each chapter, selected observational reports across the time period of the research are presented, and a psychoanalytic account of emotional factors in the learning process is generated. The analysis reveals several key dimensions to the emotional life of an 'ordinary' classroom. Individual case studies show children struggling in relation to the task because of different degreeso f developmentalo r linguistic disadvantagec; hildren capableo f using the 'literacy learning object' to engage in well sublimated imaginative learning and growth; and children using the arena of literacy learning to work through questions of power and gender. The emotional core of the teaching task is shown to centre on the use of authority to establish and maintain order and orderliness; and on a capacity for recognition of children's different and shifting states of mind. The researchin dicatest he potential and the need for a range of emotionally sophisticated capacities in teaching staff if the complex balance between group learning and the needs of individual children is to be maintained. Additionally, the project constitutes a modest advance in the development of professionally relevant psychoanalytic research methodology in micro-social settings
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Twiselton, Samantha Carole. "Beyond the curriculum : learning to teach primary literacy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/545/.
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This study has at its centre the relationship between student teachers' behaviour and their underlying thoughts and beliefs as they learn to teach primary English. Following Harré's definition of personal identity as an organising principle for action (Harré, 1983), it seems that student teachers' sense of self-hood provides a key to understanding their actions in the classroom. The findings suggest that student teachers are powerfully influenced by the way they view the role of the teacher. They can be crudely identified with one of three categories. Task Managers have a restricted view of their role, concerned with organisation and management. Curriculum Deliverers relate to learning but this is defined and limited by the curriculum. Concept/Skill Builders link to an underpinning framework of concepts, which relate to learning beyond the curriculum and the classroom. An examination of the identity and knowledge held by each type of student teacher, when compared with an experienced teacher, reveals the importance of viewing teacher knowledge as a synchronised process of making connections. This highlights the centrality of school based learning and leads to conclusions about the complex nature of the support required to enhance student teachers' learning both in school and in Higher Education Institutions.
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E, Forrester A. T. A. "Perspectives on literacy in support of lifelong learning." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52996.
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Thesis (MEdPsych)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study highlights focal issues of literacy and lifelong learning within the context of
the formal schooling system. Problems and issues pertaining to policy and practice
are examined within the broad framework of a selected set of perspectives on
literacy. The nature of the problem of literacy worldwide, and in South Africa in
particular, provides sufficient scope to investigate literacy in terms of research,
theory and practice. The synergy between curriculum change and social
transformation in South Africa which lies embedded within Outcomes-based
Education (OBE), creates possibilities for developing functionally literate citizens who
are able to negotiate their lives successfully and independently.
The qualitative and interpretative nature of this literature study entails a process of
researching and comparing the different levels of literacy within a framework of
multiple perspectives. These different perspectives on literacy also highlight
contrasting conceptualisations, and consequent definitions of literacy emphasise the
importance of both context and content. What being literate means, thus, lies
embedded within these conceptualisations. Finding new ways of seeing and doing
literacy, in order to improve literacy policies and practices, is at the heart of this
research endeavour. The "golden thread" running through the different perspectives
signifies the functional role of literacy and suggests a stronger emphasis on viewing
literacy as a functional and social practice underlying lifelong learning in the broadest
possible sense. Teachers have a cardinal role to play in building capacity in and
adding value to the South African citizenry and in supporting learners to develop the
necessary functional and critical literacy skills to express themselves adequately on
a written and and spoken level.
The objective of this study is to offer a broader conceptualisation of literacy which
embraces it as a lifelong endeavour, honed through use and purpose. The significant
differences between the traditional and the more modern approaches to literacy
development underscore the emphasis on its functionality and potential for human
resource development. All these issues have implications for literacy policy and practice. Acquiring literacy
skills entails taking into consideration that: different levels and standards of literacy
skills are possible, subject matter differs and different purposes for literacy exist.
Only when people are equipped with the personal knowledge, skills, attitudes and
values that enable them to live as productive and self-sufficient citizens, able to
make informed decisions and responsible choices, can sustainable, social
transformation become a reality.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie beklemtoon hoofsaaklik geletterdheid en lewenslange leer binne die
konteks van die formele skoolsisteem. Probleme en geskilpunte aangaande beleid
en die praktyk word binne die breë raamwerk van 'n geselekteerde stel perspektiewe
oor geletterdheid ondersoek. Die aard en omvang van die probleem van
geletterdheid, wêreldwyd en in die besonder Suid-Afrika, bied voldoende
geleenthede om geletterdheidsbeleid, -teorie en -praktyke te bestudeer. Die sinergie
tussen kurrikulumvernuwing en sosiale tranformasie in Suid-Afrika, wat ten
grondslag van Uitkomsgebaseerde Onderwys (UGO) lê, skep moontlikhede vir die
ontwikkeling van funksioneel geletterde burgers wat in staat is om hul lewens
suksesvol en onafhanklik te bestuur.
Die kwalitatiewe en verklarende aard van die literatuurstudie behels 'n vergelykende
navorsingsproses wat geletterdheid op verskillende vlakke ondersoek, binne 'n
raamwerk van veelvoudige perspektiewe. Hierdie verskillende perspektiewe oor
geletterdheid huldig verskillende opvattings, met die gevolg dat definisies van
geletterdheid uiteenlopend van aard is terwyl raakpunte ten opsigte van die
belangrikheid van konteks en inhoud sterk na vore gekom het. Wat dit beteken om
geletterd te wees is gegrond op hierdie sienswyse. Die ontdekking van nuwe
benaderings tot geletterdheid wat mik na die verbetering van geletterdheidsbeleid en
-praktyke vorm die kern van hierdie navorsingsproses. Die "goue draad" wat deur
die onderskeie perspektiewe loop, dui op die funksionele rol van geletterdheid en
beklemtoon geletterdheid as In funksionele en sosiale praktyk, wat lewenslange
leer ten grondslag lê. Onderwysers het In belangrike rol om te speel in die opbou
van kapasiteit en toevoeging van waarde tot die burgerskap binne die Suid-
Afrikaanse konteks, verder ook in die ondersteuning van leerders om die nodige
funksionele en kritiese geletterdheidsvaardighede te ontwikkel om te verseker dat
hulle hulself toereikend op 'n gesproke en geskrewe vlak kan uitdruk.
Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n meer uitgebreide beskouing ten opsigte van
geletterdheid as 'n lewenslange strewe wat deur gebruik en funksie vasgelê word (op
beide gesproke en geskrewe vlakke), daar te stel. Die beduidende verskille tussen
die tradisionele en die meer moderne benaderings tot geletterdheidsontwikkeling beklemtoon funksionaliteit en die potensiaal wat dit inhou vir die ontwikkeling van
menslike hulpbronontwikkeling.
AI hierdie aangeleenthede het implikasies vir geletterdheidsbeleid en -praktyk. Die
aanleer van geletterdheidsvaardighede noodsaak dat die volgende aspekte in
aanmerking geneem word: dat verskillende geletterheidsvaardigheidvlakke en
standaarde moontlik is, dat vakinhoude kan verskil en dat verskeie uitkomstes vir
geletterdheid bestaan. Slegs wanneer mense met die nodige persoonlike kennis,
vaardighede, houdings en waardes toegerus word - wat hulle in staat sal stelom
ingeligte besluite en verantwoordelike keuse te maak, kan volgehoue sosiale
transformasie 'n realiteit word.
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England, Rebecca Lynn. "Learning The ABC's: Family Involvement in Kindergarten Literacy." UNF Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/174.
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The present study investigated home literacy environments established through reading with children, engaging in literacy activities, and having literacy materials provided, along with families' participation in literacy-related school events. One hundred one kindergarten children and their families from five classrooms in two inner-city urban elementary schools were invited to participate in the "Learning the ABCs" project. A total of 68 families gave consent. Participation in the project included receiving 15 weeks of Home Literacy Bags. The 68 participating children were randomly assigned into two intervention groups using cluster sampling of the five classes. Group One received weekly bags with four activities while Group Two received weekly bags with four activities, a variety of materials, and one book.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the strength of four family involvement variables (reading with children, engaging in literacy activities, having literacy materials provided, and participating in literacy-related events at school) in predicting kindergarten students' gain scores on three literacy assessments (ALRI, TERA-3, and DIBELS). The primary research question was: To what extent can kindergarten students' ALRI, TERA-3, and DIBELS gain scores be explained by participation in family involvement activities?
A secondary purpose of the study was to determine which of the family involvement activities was the strongest predictor of kindergarten students' literacy achievement as measured by the literacy assessments. The secondary research question was: Which family involvement activity is the strongest predictor of gains in kindergarten students' letter and sound knowledge and phonological awareness?
Literacy assessments were implemented using a pre/post test design. The literacy gain scores served as the dependent variables and the family involvement activities served as the independent variables. Each variable set was included in a regression analysis, which was followed up with an analysis of regression structure coefficients (rs) to determine the individual variable contributions.
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Sheard, Mary. "Teacher learning through critiquing videos of literacy instruction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518745.
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Jennings, LaShay, Edward J. Dwyer, and Kayla Knupp. "Actively Involving Students in Literacy and Mathematics Learning." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3440.
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Forte, Andrea. "Learning in public information literacy and participatory media /." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29767.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.<br>Committee Chair: Bruckman, Amy; Committee Member: Grinter, Rebecca; Committee Member: Grudin, Jonathan; Committee Member: Guzdial, Mark; Committee Member: Kolodner, Janet. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Hermann, Tammy Ann. "Literacy learning centers in a second grade classroom." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1820.
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Kell, Marilyn Fay, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "Learning by experience: reconstructing the literacy engagement of nine men who self-report literacy difficulties." THESIS_CAESS_EEC_Kell_M.xml, 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/540.
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This thesis, a qualitative study, examined the literacy practices of nine workers who self-report literacy difficulties. Through a series of interviews it specifically investigated how, in the course of their daily work, their mediated behaviour resulted in development of literacy competence. Through analysis of the workers’ experiences this thesis explored sociocultural themes deriving from Vygotskian traditions such as the central mediational role of psychological tools and signs and the importance of activity taking place in social settings. It took the theoretical position that literacy is an increasingly complex construct that extends beyond functional connotations such as reading, writing and spelling. It focused on the kinds of literacy skills that individuals require in a world characterised by rapid and frequent changes. In doing so this thesis recognised the diverse modalities in literacy performance that emphasise ways of knowing and ways of doing or designing as well as reading, writing, listening, thinking, speaking and comprehending across a range of modalities. This thesis argues that sociocultural concepts are applicable to adult learners. In particular it concludes that adult learners in the course of their jobs demonstrate a repertoire of literacy competence through engagement in meaningful literacy practices. This thesis reports that a significant indicator of the reported broadening in literacy competence is the support structures available in the workplace and in particular the specific characteristics of mentors<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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McConnell, Chelsea M. "Social-Emotional Learning and Literacy: A Literacy Curriculum Designed to Support Children's Self-Awareness Skills." Otterbein University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1619555796381852.
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Raz, Ita Standen. "Social deprivation, metalinguistic awareness and learning to read." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241955.
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Gray, David E. "Hearing-impaired children, initial literacy and computer assisted learning." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318661.
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Eldred, Janine. "Perceptions of success in teaching and learning adult literacy." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251320.
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CORREA, PRISCILA MONTEIRO. "BEGINNING TEACHERS AND THEIR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN LITERACY CYCLE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25929@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA<br>O professor iniciante e o início de sua carreira têm merecido pouca atenção por parte dos pesquisadores brasileiros, embora seja uma fase importante para a construção da identidade e desenvolvimento profissional do professor. O objetivo mais amplo desta pesquisa foi compreender como o professor iniciante constrói sua aprendizagem profissional no ciclo de alfabetização de modo a se desenvolver profissionalmente. Parti, para realizá-lo, das ideias de que o professor é um sujeito ativo no seu processo de aprendizagem, capaz de relacionar suas experiências formativas e práticas (MARCELO GARCIA, 2009) e de que, ao ser inserido na carreira, ele passa por um ciclo de aprendizagem profissional (HUBERMAN, 1992). A pesquisa foi realizada com 6 professores, com tempo de experiência profissional variando entre 2 e 4 anos, que atuavam ou tinham atuado no ciclo de alfabetização na fase de iniciação (HUBERMAN, 1992), em escolas públicas – municipais e federais – e privadas do município do Rio de Janeiro. Adotei o procedimento metodológico de entrevistas semiestruturadas, entendidas como espaços de produção de narrativas que, como texto que são, abrem-se a múltiplas interpretações (KRAMER, 2002). Compartilho com Emilia Freitas de Lima (2006) o pressuposto de que a formação de professores é um processo contínuo, sem um fim estabelecido a priori, do qual fazem parte a experiência acumulada durante a passagem pela escola enquanto estudante; a formação profissional específica – formação inicial –; a iniciação na carreira e a passagem de estudante a professor e a formação contínua. A primeira parte das análises se concentrou nas trajetórias dos professores na educação básica, passando pela formação – inicial e contínua – e chegando até suas atuais experiências e práticas como professores em início de carreira. As análises foram fundamentadas nos conceitos de campo, habitus, capital e estratégias da Sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu (2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013). Destacam-se a opção pela docência marcada por uma não escolha (LELIS, 1996) e a presença da família incentivando, apoiando, influenciando ou rejeitando essa opção (NOGUEIRA, 1998). A segunda parte se estruturou a partir de dois eixos que emergiram das narrativas como significativos para a compreensão do problema de pesquisa: o início e os meios. Com relação ao primeiro, foi possível chegar à conclusão de que as dificuldades inerentes ao início da carreira, tais como mau comportamento dos alunos, competição entre os colegas e interferência dos pais são mais facilmente superadas com o apoio da equipe gestora da escola. No que diz respeito aos meios foram relatadas práticas pedagógicas de leitura e escrita, bem como autores de referência em torno da alfabetização, enfatizando a centralidade desse período do ensino fundamental, que demanda conhecimentos específicos tanto da parte de quem ensina, quanto da parte de quem aprende. Considerando o início da docência como uma fase diferenciada, com características e necessidades próprias, que demanda apoio e formação específicos (MARCELO, 1999, 2011; MARIANO, 2006; PAPI E MARTINS, 2010), a pesquisa destaca a necessidade de viabilizar um maior apoio institucional ao professor (alfabetizador) iniciante nas escolas, aliado a programas e políticas de iniciação/inserção e formação.<br>Despite of being an important stage for the development of its professional identity, the early stages of professor s professional career seems to be yet underexplored by Brazilian researchers. From the perspective that professors have an active role on their learning process, able to connect their practical and theoretical experiences (MARCELO GARCIA, 2009), and once initiated on their careers they go through a professional learning cycle (HUBERMAN, 1992), the broader aim of this research is to understand how professors on their early stages build their professional learning at the literacy cycle, connecting its theoretical and practical experiences in order to obtain professional development. Present research was completed with six professors with professional experience between 2 and 5 years, that have currently or past experience at the literacy cycle on the initiation stage (HUBERMAN, 1992); at public schools – municipal and federal – and private schools within Rio de Janeiro city. Interviews were used as a methodological tool. Interviews, understood as narrative production spaces, give room for multiple interpretations (KRAMER, 2002). Based on Lima s (2006)
assumption that professor s development is a continuous process, without a firm established end, in which takes part its own experience as a student; specific professor formation – undergraduate degree - ; career commencement and its passage from student to professor to continuous development, first phase of the analysis was concentrated on the professors paths at the basic education, passing through formation – initial and continuous – up to their current practices and experiences as early stage professors. Analysis were completed having Bourdieu (2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) concepts of habitus, strategy and capital as
drivers. It should be highlighted the option for a professorial career as a nonoption (LELIS, 1996) and family s influence, either supporting or rejecting this option (NOGUEIRA, 1998). Second phase was structured based on three axis that arose from the narratives as important for the research problem understanding: early stages, learning and literacy cycle. Regarding the early stages it was possible to conclude that difficulties associated with early stages of the career, such as students behaviour; competition among colleagues and parents interference are easily overcome with support given by school managerial team. In connection to the learning process, professor were unanimous in point the insufficiency of their degree, highlighting their relationship with their pairs – either within the school and outside the school as a privileged element of its professional learning. Finally, regarding the literacy cycle, pedagogical practices such as reading and writing,
together with prestigious authors and public policy associated with literacy, highlighting the key importance of such period of the fundamental cycle, which demands specific knowledge (TARDIF, 2007) have been described by professors interviewed. Considering the early stages of a professor career as a differential stage, with particular characteristics and needs, demanding specific support and education (MARCELO, 1999, 2011; MARIANO, 2006; PAPI E MARTINS, 2010) current research highlights the need for a major institutional support for the literacy professors in the early stages of their career, complemented by induction/ introduction policies together with continuous developing programs.
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Dawson, Linda Dianne. "Supporting principals to lead literacy learning in challenging contexts." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2013. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/830a1af8dfe68e1aea19739b83877cf31b3c231ed27e0d8bf828a2696d3fd25b/1865260/64841_downloaded_stream_66.pdf.
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...The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of coaching support that principals require to build their capabilities to lead literacy learning in challenging Australian primary school contexts. Three conceptual understandings informed the study; the dimensions of leadership of literacy learning, how literacy is defined within a context and the notion of 'difference' in SAE literacy acquisition.
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Nazare, Juliana Toni. "Technology-assisted coaching : a system for Children's literacy learning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130837.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, February, 2021<br>Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290).<br>Children learn best when knowledgeable adults support their learning process. Yet many learning technologies have not yet incorporated this vital social dimension. In response, we develop a technology-assisted coaching system, where a new adult collaborator--a coach--uses digital tools to support children and their families as they use children's literacy apps. This coaching system blends in-person and digital coaching in order to preserve the relational elements vital to coaching, while harnessing the power of digital technology to make information easily accessible to coaches, children, and families at their convenience. In our system, as children play with literacy apps, every tap and click of their play is streamed to their coach through our digital coaching platform. Using custom-built digital tools, coaches engage in four core coaching practices.<br>They analyze children's in-app activity, scaffold their learning, share progress with caregivers, and invite caregivers to engage in literacy learning experiences with their children. To develop this system, we iteratively designed, built, and evaluated it with approximately a hundred children and their families. We conducted in-depth study of two versions of the system's design through a randomized control trial (RCT) and a formative pilot study. From the RCT, we found that the coaching system increased caregivers' awareness of their children's in-app play and children's playtime with the literacy app. We also found that for families with lower formal education levels, the effect of the coaching system was greater across almost all outcome variables investigated. In both studies, we found coaches were able to use our digital coaching tools to effectively engage in the four core coaching practices, and that these tools helped increase coaches' efficiency.<br>Based on our findings, we discuss changes to the system's design to improve and scale this approach and provide design considerations for building digital coaching systems. Through the creation and in-depth study of a novel sociotechnical system for coaching children's literacy learning, this work contributes to the field of learning technology. We hope this work serves as a helpful guide to designers, developers, and policymakers as they create and scale-up these types of digital networks for children's learning.<br>by Juliana Toni Nazare.<br>Ph. D.<br>Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
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Fu, Jun. "Fostering digital literacy through web-based collaborative inquiry learning." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2011. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1238.
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Hill, Erika. "Co-learning Pedagogies in the Media Literacy Education Classroom." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2809.
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This qualitative research project describes the experiences of students in BYU's Hands on a Camera Project as they were introduced to co-learning pedagogies. Hands on a Camera is a media literacy service-learning project where university students are placed in public schools to teach K-12 students documentary production and media literacy. The project consists of a preparation phase and a teaching phase. In the research project, students were required to complete peer-learning and peer-teaching assignments during the preparation phase as in order to prepare for the teaching phase. This ethnographic study describes student experiences—positive and negative—with peer learning during both phases of the project.
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Tai, Chih-Che, Karin Keith, S. Starnes, and Renee Rice Moran. "Integrating Science Learning with Literacy in Grades 6-12." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/998.
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Pesci, Francesca <1987>. "Literacy and Italian L2 Learning in Low Educated Adults." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3438.
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Campbell, Jeanette Lynn. "California early literacy learning as an effective alternative to reading recovery for school-wide literacy instruction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1656.
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Kazembe, Manuel Boyd. "Retracing Footsteps of the Literati: Towards Understanding Literacy Development through Stories of Malawian Teacher Educators." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30058.
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If there is a single song in which nations, governments, human rights organizations, communities, and parents harmoniously blend their voices, it is that being literate is valuable and valued. Being literate entails one's access to and interaction with text in one's environment (Harris & Hodges, 1995). However, in developing countries, print is hard to come by due to several factors. What is of significance, though, is that despite the absence of readily available print environments that are prevalent in the developed world, one still sees highly literate persons emerging from poor developing countries.
This study sought to investigate how those who become literate achieve literacy despite growing up in places where print is not readily available. It was a search for factors that supported and enabled the participants to become literate persons. This investigation searched for an answer to the umbrella question: What are the conditions that promote literacy development in a print-limited environment? In order to answer this question, six postgraduate degree holding Malawian teacher educators were interviewed. The interviews generated six to literacy autobiographies, i.e. stories of how they acquired literacy skills in English, a second language, when print resources were limited. From an analysis of those stories, themes emerged that indicated prevailing commonalities in the study participants' literacy developmental paths. The major themes that emerged were parental involvement in children's literacy development, influence of teachers on developing literacy, the role of peers and siblings as learners develop literacy, presence of text in the environment, literacy practices of participants as they grew up, and participants' perceptions of literacy and its development.
The study showed that literacy acquisition is a complex developmental phenomenon (Luke, 2002). It is a process that emerges from a combination of complementary factors. What emerged from the study is that, even in print-limited environments, there are facilitating conditions that enhance an individual's literacy development. The facilitating conditions were various people who helped learners acquire literacy, the availability of text, the meaningfulness of texts and tasks, the learners' intrinsic motivation, and the differences that evolved over time in the relationships between the learners and those with whom they interacted.<br>Ph. D.
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McCook, Nora. "Literacy Volunteer Preparation and Organizational Goals in a Service Learning and a Family Literacy Training Program: Historicizing Literacy Campaigns, Volunteers, and Schools." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500298111086208.
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Henderson, Christine Ann. "From teacher in charge of reading to literacy leader – what is the role of the literacy leader?An in-depth qualitative study of two literacy leaders." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2261.
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The purpose of this study has been to provide a rich description of the role of the literacy leader in two primary schools. Through this study I was seeking to identify what the role of the literacy leader is and how this role is enacted. The role has been described from the perspectives of the literacy leader, a principal and five members of two school’s teaching staff. The desire to better understand the role of the literacy leader is important to those in the role and those they interact with. This is particularly so for those in my position as a professional developer, working alongside both a school and its literacy leader as they undertake in-depth literacy professional development.
Literacy leaders have assumed greater responsibilities within schools since the 1999 Literacy Taskforce report which suggested a range of initiatives to better support literacy learners in New Zealand. Since this report there has been a governmental priority on literacy as a foundation learning area. Interest in literacy success for all stems from both international and national assessment knowledge. This information highlights the strength of New Zealand students in literacy but also identifies a group of students who do not perform well and continue to underachieve in literacy into adulthood. This underachievement limits the opportunities they have as adults for employment and participation in society.
There has been no formalised role description for literacy leaders or how they might enact this role. The purpose of this study therefore has been to identify the role and how it is enacted. The literacy leader role has been analysed from multiple perspectives. Participant observation and in-depth interviewing have provided a rich picture of the role and how it is enacted. It is from these insights that some clarity has been gained about the characteristics of the role, how it is interpreted by the participants and then enacted by the two leaders. The findings indicate the role identified by those participating in this study and the reality of how it is enacted, are closely matched.
The tasks of a literacy leader are complex and their dual role of classroom teacher and literacy leader adds to this complexity as they manage both positions simultaneously. This study identified that being a literacy leader requires a central focus on improved student achievement. It requires literacy leaders to provide strong leadership in literacy professional development/learning. This study also suggests that literacy leaders are seen as learning partners during the in-depth literacy professional development/learning focus where all involved are learners. The final role they play is in supporting the development of a collaborative professional learning community where all of the learning occurs.
It raises issues and questions for those who interact with the literacy leader both within the school and those outside the school in how they can support them in this role. It also surfaces the need for schools and professional developers to address how the structures they are operating within can be reorganised to afford the time needed to be effective in this role. Finally when schools, advisers and Ministry of Education enter into a partnership of learning openly demonstrating that each will learn from the other, then capacity is built across all levels of the education system in meeting the goals of improved student outcomes.
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Toomey, Margaret. "Computer games, learning and literacy: Reflections on students' learning and literacy experiences when engaging with computer games in a middle years English classroom." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388982.
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This thesis presents reflections and insights arising from a qualitative research study exploring the learning experiences and literacy practices of students when engaging with computer games as texts for learning in a middle years English classroom. The research responds to an exponential growth in the presence of digital texts in the lives of many students and seeks to explore possible connections between these texts and literacy learning in school. Commercially available computer games were chosen as digital texts for inclusion in this study for three reasons. In the first instance, many students express a passionate interest in these games and engage extensively with them in their out-of-school lives. Yet, despite studies confirming positive effects of drawing on the potential of these games for learning, there remains a deficit discourse surrounding the impact of computer games on players and the use of computer games in school. A second reason is the potential of computer games to provide validation and recognition of the learning experiences and literacy practices that students bring to the classroom from their home and out-of-school lives. The third reason for including computer games in classroom learning, particularly in English classrooms, is the growing recognition of this digital medium as a new narrative form.
Theoretical approaches informing this research study draw from sociocultural and multimodal social semiotic understandings of the concept of literacy. In addition, this study draws on recent theories of literacy exploring meaning-making as sensory, embodied practices, particularly in an age of digital texts. In particular, this study acknowledges the “visionary project of multiliteracies begun by the New London Group” (Mills, 2011, p. 24) and proposes a model for adapting this framework to elements of meaning-making with computer games. Although there is a great deal of research exploring digital texts for literacy learning underpinned by sociocultural, multiliteracies, and multimodal perspectives, there is much less research exploring more embodied and perceptual dimensions through a phenomenological approach. This doctoral research study aims to address this gap.
Methods for this study are guided by hermeneutic phenomenology and influenced by feminist-inspired approaches to phenomenological research. Data for the research were generated in a single case study conducted in a middle years English classroom in a government-funded secondary school. Participants in the study were one classroom teacher and 28 students in their ninth year of schooling (ages 13 – 14). While the focus of the research is the students’ learning and literacy experiences, the perspectives and influence of the class teacher and the researcher are taken into consideration in the representation of this research study. Interpretative phenomenological analysis informs the analysis of data for the study.
Reflections on these themes in light of selected literature in the field of computer games, learning, and literacy lead to a discussion of new kinds of learning experiences arising from young people’s engagement with digital texts such as computer games. The discussion also considers areas in which applications of the multiliteracies framework may hide, or obscure, the whole of the lived experience of learning and meaning-making, particularly when engaging with digital texts. The discussion proposes an approach to learning in English that recognises the value of “meaningful play” and the impact of this playfulness on students’ literacy practices. Finally, a model is proposed for examining multiple dimensions of literacy learning with computer games in English.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School Educ & Professional St<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Miller, Linda Kathleen. "Literacy development in the pre-school years." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365930.
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Callaghan, Fiona. "Year one children's literacy behaviours and perceptions of literacy learning in the classroom and reading recovery contexts." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/740.
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This study investigates the ways in which four Year One children engage in the literacy events of their regular and Reading Recovery classrooms. It explores how these children perceived their beginning reading instruction and possible relationships between the children's perceptions and the ways in which they ‘did' literacy in each setting. The study draws on research in beginning reading instruction from both a psychological and socio-cultural perspective, as well as research into withdrawal programs for children experiencing difficulty in learning to read and the Reading Recovery program itself. A case study approach was used in this study and data collection methods included videoetaped observations of the children in their two classrooms, interviews and examination of artefacts. Observation data was categorised into two main groups of reading and writing behaviours and literacy related behaviours. Results showed similarities in the children's reading and writing behaviours across the two settings, with some differences noted in their literacy-related behaviours from one setting to the other. The differences were particularly marked in the children's dispositions to literacy learning, with two of the children showing a more active learning stance in Reading Recovery than in the classroom setting. These results are interpreted in light of previous research literature on classroom learning, continuities and discontinuities between classroom and withdrawal settings, and the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery program. It is suggested that while the withdrawal reading program may assist children to develop their reading and writing skills it may not necessarily develop in children an active learning stance and a positive disposition for literacy learning. The study points towards the need for both classroom and withdrawal teachers to work collaboratively to carefully monitor the individual reading and writing behaviours, literacy learning behaviours and learning stances of at-risk Year One children.
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Jamison, Sally. "Popular culture and literacy learning negotiating meaning with everyday literacies /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Jamison_S%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.
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Buchanan, Carolyn Alma 1934. "AN ARTS-BASED CURRICULUM FOR LITERACY: A PROJECT STUDY." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291993.
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This thesis presents theory and rationale for an arts-based curriculum for literacy in regard to philosophical, psychological, and sociological questions in curriculum design. A conceptual framework for an arts-based curriculum model is described in terms of structure, content, community, organization, and implementation. Planning features and formats are presented. Criteria and instruments for assessment of the model and child response to implementation are described and interpreted. The arts-based curriculum model was implemented in a classroom during the 1986-1987 school year. Observations were recorded and selections are presented in narrative form. The observations are discussed in relation to concerns of children, literacy learnings through art concepts, application of arts and language arts skills, and classroom management. Recommendations for implementation of the model and for further research are included.
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Mmela, Edith. "Implementing Integrated Literacy Approaches in an English Classroom in Malawi." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28025.
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The purpose of the study was to discover how teachers learn to teach. This was done through the process of answering the question â How does a teacher acting as a co-researcher come to understand the learner-centered integrated literacy approaches in an English classroom in Malawi?â The learner-centered integrated literacy approaches is a concept derived from a constructivist philosophy of teaching. English is an important language in Malawi because it is the official language (Kayambazinthu, 1998). For that reason children are motivated to learn it as a second language. However, their achievement in English is critically low (Banda, Mchikoma, Chimombo, & Milner, 2001;Kishindo, Susuwere, Ndalama & Mwale, 2005; Williams, 1993). According to Ministry of Education and UNICEF (1998) and Williams (1993) teachersâ complete reliance on traditional teacher-centered approaches was believed to be one of the major causes of school childrenâ s failure to acquire English as a second language for their literacy development in Malawi. The assumption was that improving teacher practice by introducing constructivists-based, learner-centered, integrated literacy approaches, which are believed to be more effective for second language learning, than the former, would illuminate how teachers learn and ultimately improve teacher education practices and consequently teacher English teaching in the classroom.
Data were collected from pre- and post-study interviews, a series of audio taped lesson planning and lesson reflections, lesson observation summaries, and a researcherâ s journal. Data analysis and interpretation suggested that teacher learning is a gradual developmental process that depended very much on other interlaced processes of collaboration, inquiry, and reflective practice. It also demonstrated that the learner-centered integrated literacy approaches of the constructivism-based philosophy, which are also included in the Malawi curriculum but implementation is still a challenge in the primary classes, are possible. The results and process of the study could be used to improve teacher learning in Malawi. Finally, the study experience has illuminated the need for more exploration in the new areas of growth in English literacy.<br>Ph. D.
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Grassick, Sandra P. "Parent involvement in children's early literacy learning, an exploratory study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0015/MQ55146.pdf.
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Miller, Kimberly Keller. "Play and literacy learning in one urban early childhood classroom." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1190063031.
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Grebner, Leah A. "Learning Style Needs and Effectiveness of Adult Health Literacy Education." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3617056.
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<p> Low health literacy impacts an individual's ability to comprehend communication from healthcare providers, reduces access to healthcare, and contributes to increased mortality. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of learning style on adult health literacy education. The health belief model, protection motivation theory, the transtheoretical model, and social cognitive theory were used to analyze the data in this study, and to further develop effective health literacy education. The research questions addressed the effectiveness of educational intervention adjusted to their appropriate learning style in comparison to a standardized health literacy intervention and potential difference, according to type of learning style, in the amount of changed performance between pretest and posttest. A sample of 80 adults in an urban community was recruited through organizations serving low-income individuals. The participants were assessed for baseline health literacy level, followed by identification of learning style, educational intervention, and posttest assessment, which led to determination by <i>t</i> test that changes between pretest and posttest scores were statistically significant between the control group and the study groups. This finding suggests that health education should be delivered to patients according to individual learning style in order for patients to comprehend and retain information provided. Social change implications include healthcare professionals appropriately addressing health literacy so that patients may participate more actively in their personal healthcare decisions to improve healthcare quality outcomes, decrease long-term costs of delivering healthcare services, and improve the general health of the community.</p>
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Myers, Chloe. "Towards a model of literacy learning for young, augmented speakers." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249745.
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Bonello, Charmaine. "Boys and early literacy learning in three Maltese state schools." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22737/.
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Internationally, there is a gender-related performance gap in literacy attainment, and in the Maltese islands, recently published international literacy test results caused rising concern about the academic achievement of boys. Within the global context of concern about 'boys' underachievement', this thesis reports a study which investigated the lived literacy experiences of young boys in three co-educational Maltese state schools. The purpose of this enquiry was not to solve the widely discussed phenomenon of 'boys' underachievement' but rather to create new understandings about boys and early literacy learning in the first years of compulsory schooling in Maltese state schools. Consequently, this study is framed within the exploration of the concepts of 'boys' underachievement', 'early literacy learning', and 'school readiness' in its local context. The theoretical foundations of this research were underpinned by several theoretical perspectives including posthumanist, emancipatory, socio-cultural, experiential education and childhood theories, attuned to my epistemological stance of pragmatism in mixed methods phenomenological research. Young boys' voices, several stakeholders' perspectives and the lived experience of three groups of five- to six-year-old boys during schooled reading and writing practices were investigated through an online questionnaire, classroom observations, individual interviews, and focus groups. Findings suggest that the three main concepts explored were inclined to biased and constricted worldviews that resulted in the majority of the young boys experiencing undesirable reading and writing practices. Merged findings funneled down to questioning whether a 'paradigm paralysis' effect - the inability or rejection to embrace new ways of thinking - is restraining stakeholders and policymakers from taking action, rethinking and repositioning existing conceptualisations concerning 'underachieving boys', 'early literacy learning' and 'school readiness'. Subsequently, this research study implies the risk of a 'paradigm paralysis' in the fields of gender, literacy, and early years education in the local context, and offers new conceptualisations towards an educational response. This study posits that policymakers, educators and all stakeholders involved in education should ensure that all children have access to quality early literacy learning through a more socially just education system: a solid foundation for all successful literate citizens.