Option 1: Ethnography of Community
Literacy corresponds to a sociocultural approach from which learning to read and write goes beyond cognitive skills and includes social practices that allow it to make sense within a specific social context. One of the …
Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander Perspectives: Group X
Education was through the medium of the native language. Literacy was “estimated as greater than in any other country in the world, except Scotland and New England”. The Privy Council in 1840 established …
A person’s identity is shaped by a variety of factors. Family, culture, friends, personal interests, and the environment all contribute to the formation of a person’s identity. Some factors may have a greater impact than others, while others may have …
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Implementing Africa in the U.S. Curriculum -summary
African studies experts deplore the fact that students in the U.S. know little about sub-Saharan African nations and cultures. Research is still needed to determine how much Africa and African people …
Podcasting, photo sharing, storytelling, and completing web searches are all instances of modern literacies.
Remarkably, because they are all sorts of literacy, none of the cases of new literacies amaze me. We exchange knowledge and engage with our peers through …
1. The five elements of literacy according to Szwed are text, context, functionality, participation, and motivation. I will pick context. The context is to give meaning to the recipient, what importance is given to something, what assumptions are made about …
2. Should we read and why? A question that everyone has to ask themselves, in a …
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