Learning And Literacy Over Time

Author : Julian Sefton-Green,Jennifer Rowsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317814818

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Learning and Literacy over Time by Julian Sefton-Green,Jennifer Rowsell Pdf

Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research—studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of their learning lives inside and outside of school, and studies revealing how past experiences with literacy and learning inform future experiences and practices. It does so by bringing together researchers who revisited subjects of their initial research conducted over the past 10-20 years with people whom they encountered through ethnographic or classroom-based investigations and are the subjects of previous published accounts. The case studies, drawn from countries in three continents and covering a range of social worlds, offer an original and at times quite an emotive interpretation of the effects of long-term social change in the UK, the US, Australia and Canada; the claims and aspirations made by and for certain kinds of educational interventions; how research subjects reflect on and learn from the processes of being co-opted into classroom research as well as how they make sense of school experiences; some of the widespread changes in literacy practices as a result of our move into the digital era; and above all, how academic research can learn from these life stories raising a number of challenges about methodology and our claims to 'know’ the people we research. In many cases the process of revisiting led to important reconceptualizations of the earlier work and a sense of 'seeing with new eyes’ what was missed in the past. The reflections on methodology and research processes will interest postgraduate and academic researchers. The studies of change and of long-term effects are widely relevant to teacher educators and scholars in language and literacy education, educational anthropology, life history research, media and cultural studies, and sociology.

Author : Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,John Hattie
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506344034

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Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12 by Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey,John Hattie Pdf

"Every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design" — Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & John Hattie What if someone slipped you a piece of paper listing the literacy practices that ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning for a year spent in school? Would you keep the paper or throw it away? We think you’d keep it. And that’s precisely why acclaimed educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie wrote Visible Learning for Literacy. They know teachers will want to apply Hattie’s head-turning synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, which he used to identify the instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning. These practices are "visible" for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student’s learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the "aha" moments made visible by design. With their trademark clarity and command of the research, and dozens of classroom scenarios to make it all replicable, these authors apply Hattie’s research, and show you: How to use the right approach at the right time, so that you can more intentionally design classroom experiences that hit the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning, and more expertly see when a student is ready to dive from surface to deep. Which routines are most effective at specific phases of learning, including word sorts, concept mapping, close reading, annotating, discussion, formative assessment, feedback, collaborative learning, reciprocal teaching, and many more. Why the 8 mind frames for teachers apply so well to curriculum planning and can inspire you to be a change agent in students’ lives—and part of a faculty that embraces the idea that visible teaching is a continual evaluation of one’s impact on student’s learning. "Teachers, it’s time we embrace the evidence, update our classrooms, and impact student learning in wildly positive ways," say Doug, Nancy, and John. So let’s see Visible Learning for Literacy for what it is: the book that renews our teaching and reminds us of our influence, just in time.

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly,Erica Halverson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317748700

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Time and Space in Literacy Research by Catherine Compton-Lilly,Erica Halverson Pdf

Literacy researchers interested in how specific sites of learning situate students and the ways they make sense of their worlds are asking new questions and thinking in new ways about how time and space operate as contextual dimensions in the learning lives of students, teachers, and families. These investigations inform questions related to history, identity, methodology, in-school and out-of school spaces, and local/global literacies. An engaging blend of methodological, theoretical, and empirical work featuring well-known researchers on the topic, this book provides a conceptual framework for extending existing conceptions of context and provides unique and ground-breaking examples of empirical research.

Author : Diane M. Barone,Marla H. Mallette
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462511778

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Best Practices in Early Literacy Instruction by Diane M. Barone,Marla H. Mallette Pdf

Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning to write, as well as cutting-edge topics such as digital literacy, informational texts, and response to intervention. Every chapter features guiding questions; an overview of ideas and findings on the topic at hand; specific suggestions for improving instruction, assessment, and/or the classroom environment; and an engrossing example of the practices in action.

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317279310

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Reading Students’ Lives by Catherine Compton-Lilly Pdf

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income African American students and their parents across a decade, it follows the same children into high school, bringing to the forefront issues and insights that are invisible in shorter-term projects. This is a free-standing volume that breaks new ground both theoretically and methodologically and has important implications for children, schools, and educational research. Its significant contributions include the unique longitudinal nature of the study, the lens it casts on family literacy practices during high school years, the close and situated look at the experiences of children from communities that have been historically underserved by schools, and the factors that alltoooften cause many of these children to move further and further away from school, eventually dropping out or failing to graduate.

Author : Celia Genishi,Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807771174

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Children, Language, and Literacy by Celia Genishi,Anne Haas Dyson Pdf

Synopsis: In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in the diverse contexts that surround them. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a "one-size-fits-all" curriculum, too often assessed by standardized tests. In contrast, the authors propose diversity as the new norm. They feature stories of children whose language learning is impossible to standardize, and they introduce teachers who do not follow scripts but observe, assess informally, respond to, and grow with their children. Among these children are rapid language learners and those who take their time to become speakers, readers, and writers at "child speed." All these learners, regardless of tempo, are often found within the language-rich contexts of play.

Author : Kerryn Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136969751

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Literacies, Power, and the Schooled Body by Kerryn Dixon Pdf

The literacy classroom is the foundation from which reading and writing is built for use across the curriculum. This book focuses on the body and uses literacy as a way of exploring how teachers' practices create literate students. Working from a Foucaultian premise that discipline is directed onto children's bodies.

Author : Helen Abadzi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780821366899

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Efficient Learning for the Poor by Helen Abadzi Pdf

"Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading and calculation by the end of grade 2. Fluency is needed to process large amounts of text quickly and use the information for decisions that may ultimately reduce poverty. State-of-the-art brain imaging and cognitive psychology research can help formulate effective policies for improving the basic skills of low-income students. This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman?'s terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such as: Why do children have to read fast before they can understand what they read? How do health, nutrition, and stimulation influence brain development? Why should students learn basic skills in their maternal language? Is there such a thing as an untrained teacher? What signs in a classroom show whether students are getting a quality education? How must information be presented in class so that students can retain it and use it? What training techniques are most likely to help staff put their learning into use? This book would be useful to policymakers, donor agency staff, teacher trainers, supervisors, and inspectors, as well as university professors and students."

Author : Faith Rogow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1938113977

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Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates by Faith Rogow Pdf

Author : Jim Cummins,Kristin Brown,Dennis Sayers
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015064768446

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Literacy, Technology, and Diversity by Jim Cummins,Kristin Brown,Dennis Sayers Pdf

An invaluable resource for both practicing and pre-service teachers, this long-awaited book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to "rethink" literacy and technology in today's diverse classrooms. Authored by some of the most respected researchers in the field today, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity reflects on the idea that great expectations are achievable through educational projects that foster academic growth, with classroom diversity and technology as catalysts for deeper learning, and that a narrow focus ongrade expectations yields superficial results. Arguing today's learning principles need to incorporate the core values of community learning, critical pedagogy, multilingualism, anti-racist education, high academic standards, and technological fluency, Cummins, Sayers and Brown provide a thought-provoking introduction into these learning principles that will inspire the life-long learning of students. Take a peek inside... Provides examples of projects, backed by research-based theories for their effective adaptation to help both pre-service and practicing teachers become more independent and creative in the ways they use technology. Gives useful suggestions on how to effectively integrate literacy and technology into the classroom. Presents Portraits (Case studies) of collaborative projects promoting literacy learning and often involving technology on such topics as: Cognition, Assessment, Community of Learning, and Tools and Resources in Section II (Chapters 5-9). Contains an appendix of short vignettes of exemplary projects that promote learning of standards-based expectations for academic achievement. Includes a complimentary CD-ROM of additional resources for teachers as well as updated portraits on exemplary projects.

Author : Stephen Reder,John Bynner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135903299

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Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills by Stephen Reder,John Bynner Pdf

Understanding the origins of poor literacy and numeracy skills in adulthood and how to improve them is of major importance when society places a high premium on proficiency in these basic skills. This edited collection brings together the results of recent longitudinal studies that greatly extend our knowledge of what works in raising skill levels, as well as the social and economic returns to improvement. Many fundamental research questions in adult education involve change over time: how adults learn, how program participation influences their acquisition of skills and knowledge, and how their educational development interacts with their social and economic performance. Although a growing number of longitudinal studies in adult basic education have recently been completed, this book is the first systematic compilation of findings and methods. Triangulating findings from different methodological perspectives and research designs, and across countries, this text produces convergence on key conclusions about the role of basic skills in the modern life course and the most effective ways of enhancing them.

Author : Nancy Darcovich,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Statistics Canada
Publisher : Statistics Canada
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015054421378

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Literacy in the Information Age by Nancy Darcovich,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,Statistics Canada Pdf

This book presents evidence on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries.

Author : Marie M. Clay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407160095

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Change Over Time in Children's Literacy Development by Marie M. Clay Pdf

Written for specialists, leading teachers, graduates and academics, this in-depth study discusses the theories, questions and developments in early literacy intervention that have made Marie Clay a leader in this area.This thoughtful and challenging book allows people working in early intervention to draw on the success of others from around the world.

Author : Kathleen Tyner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135690847

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Literacy in a Digital World by Kathleen Tyner Pdf

In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time. New uses of information for teaching and learning create a "disconnect" in the complex relationship between literacy and schooling, and raise questions about the purposes of literacy in a global, networked, educational environment. The way that new communication technologies change the nature of literacy in contemporary society is discussed as a rationale for corresponding changes in schooling. Digital technologies push beyond alphabetic literacy to explore the way that sound, image, and text can be incorporated into education. Attempts to redefine literacy terms--computer, information, technology, visual, and media literacies--proliferate and reflect the need to rethink entrenched assumptions about literacy. These multiple literacies are advanced to help users make sense of the information glut by fostering the ability to access, analyze, and produce communication in a variety of forms. Tyner explores the juncture between two broad movements that hope to improve education: educational technology and media education. A comparative analysis of these two movements develops a vision of teaching and learning that is critical, hands on, inquiry-based, and suitable for life in a mobile, global, participatory democracy.

Author : Easton, Peter
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literacy
ISBN : 9789230012304

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Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment by Easton, Peter Pdf

This publication contributes, in the critical context of Africa, to the conceptual development of the notion of the literate environment--an essential element for the promotion of literacy. It brings knowledge and insights about literate environments, highlighting inter-related issues such as its definitions, previous undertakings, methods of assessment as well as interactions between the supply and demand sides of environments.--