Visible Voices Literacy And The Invisible Homeless

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Visible Voices: Literacy and the Invisible Homeless

Author : Melissa M. Juchniewicz, EdD
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781456859244

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Visible Voices: Literacy and the Invisible Homeless by Melissa M. Juchniewicz, EdD Pdf

Who are the “invisible homeless”? They are individuals and families who have been forced into temporary living situations or shelter systems as a result of such conditions as changes in income, domestic violence, health care needs, and shifting housing costs. Unlike the chronically homeless, who are often stereotyped, or the situationally homeless, who may receive emergency assistance regaining their previous lives, the marginally homeless – often called the invisible homeless – get caught in institutional spirals that seem to discourage change. This book, however, provides evidence that an individual’s literacy identity can promote positive transitions out of homelessness. Although the stigma surrounding homelessness provokes silence, the five individuals who took part in this project speak eloquently about their circumstances, their accomplishments, and their intentions. In addition, the book can serve as a how-to for completing a qualitative research project, as the reader is walked through the steps of the research process.

Invisible Nation

Author : Richard Schweid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520292666

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"Every year, more than 2.5 million children are left homeless in the United States and the number of such families continues to rise annually. In every state, children are living in small quarters packed in with relatives-- in cars, in motel rooms, or in emergency shelters. In this vividly-written narrative, experienced journalist Richard Schweid takes us on a spirited journey through this "invisible nation,' giving us front-row dispatches of suffering families on the edge. Based on in-depth reporting from five major cities, Invisible Nation looks backward at the historical context of family homelessness as well as forward at what needs to be done to alleviate this widespread, although often hidden, poverty. Invisible Nation is a riveting must-read for everyone who cares about inequality, poverty and family life"--Provided by publishe

Many Texts, Many Voices

Author : Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571108753

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Many Texts, Many Voices by Penny Silvers,Mary C. Shorey Pdf

On any given day, a visitor to Mary Shorey's classroom will find elementary students using a variety of learning tools, from books to wikis and blogs, to pose critical questions about the world and take action to make a difference in the lives of others. Whether sponsoring a book drive for victims of Hurricane Katrina, using a multimedia presentation to persuade the principal to adopt their recycling plan, or challenging a senior citizen's eviction, it's all in a day's work for Mary's students. Her young learners are becoming conscious consumers, creative thinkers, and effective communicators even while fulfilling the mandated curriculum and Common Core Standards. As Shorey and coauthor Penny Silvers write in Many Texts, Many Voices, "Critical literacy requires that the reader/consumer examine multiple perspectives and ask, 'Whose interests are being served?' and 'Whose voice is heard--or silenced?'...Rather than an addition to a lesson or curriculum, critical literacy is a way of thinking, communicating, analyzing, and living a literate life. Critical literacy also implies the possibility of taking some kind of social action in order to support a belief, make a difference, or simply help during a time of need." Always mindful of what is appropriate for young children, Shorey and Silvers continually search for opportunities to embed critical literacy and inquiry in the everyday lives of primary students. Through a rich array of rubrics, sample lessons, text sets, unit designs, and professional resources, Silvers and Shorey share their reflective practices so that all teachers can use print, visual, and digital tools to transform student learning.

Almost Invisible

Author : Maureen Garvie
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773060798

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Jewel is on the run from an abusive home situation and furtively living at school. After Maya discovers her classmate’s secret, should she tell? Or can she help Jewel on her own? Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address. She tried to find Charmaine once, but that only brought her family to the attention of the police. Now Jewel keeps her head down at school, looks after her special-needs brother as well as she can, and tries to steer clear of her parents and their shady friends. When her father’s friend comes into her bedroom one night, Jewel finally understands why Charmaine had to leave home. Soon she is on the run herself. When her food runs out, Jewel chances upon a new place to live — the cupboard of the art room at school. It turns out to be surprisingly easy to live under the radar when you have perfected the art of being almost invisible. That is, until Jewel’s classmates, Maya and Lily, discover her washing her hair in the girls’ washroom at school and making breakfast in the lunchroom. They take her on as their project, finding her places to sleep, fixing her hair and wardrobe — even as they can’t quite understand her terror, or why she is so afraid of seeking adult help. But the girls help keep Jewel and her secret safe — until they no longer can. Told in the alternating voices of Maya and Jewel, this is a thought-provoking and moving story about loyalty, privilege, keeping secrets, and what it means to be a good friend. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

Liminal: Spaces-in-between Visible and Invisible

Author : Erica Eaton,Bfa Tara Smelt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780615151175

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Liminal: Spaces-in-between Visible and Invisible by Erica Eaton,Bfa Tara Smelt Pdf

Art, and education, does not happen in the mainstream. It is made on the edges. Meaning does not occur on the line; it is shaped between them. Liminal is the catalog for these things, a gift of next ideas. -- taken from back cover.

How God Becomes Real

Author : T.M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234441

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The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.

Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities

Author : Beth St. Jean,Gagan Jindal,Yuting Liao,Paul T. Jaeger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781839093401

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Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities by Beth St. Jean,Gagan Jindal,Yuting Liao,Paul T. Jaeger Pdf

This volume brings together librarians, LIS students, educators, and researchers, to discuss the many ways that information professionals and libraries serve as agents of securing health information justice.

Exhibiting the Archive

Author : Peter Lester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000597653

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Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive. Drawing on research conducted in Europe, North America and Australia, the book analyses the key theoretical and social influences on exhibition-making in archives today and discusses the role of exhibitions in the archives of tomorrow. This is the first in-depth study to consider exhibition as more than outreach or advocacy: it frames exhibition as an encounter with archives and with people, and interprets it as a mechanism for change within the archive. Against a backdrop of increasing digital activity, Lester asks what experience within the physical space of the archive could be. Drawing on ideas of spatiality and embodiment, as well as social justice and activism, Lester considers the role of exhibitions within the physical archive and the part they can play in reshaping how experience is understood to happen within it. Exhibiting the Archive offers a new perspective on the archive that will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives and records. The discussions of cutting-edge practice offer new insights into how exhibitions are conceived and made, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners around the world.

Student Voice

Author : Michael Lubelfeld,Nick Polyak,P.J. Caposey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475840032

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Student Voice by Michael Lubelfeld,Nick Polyak,P.J. Caposey Pdf

This book is about incorporating student voice, student input, and student presence into leadership, decision-making and school improvement planning.

"Other" Voices

Author : David De Brou,Aileen Moffatt
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN : 0889770883

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"Other" Voices by David De Brou,Aileen Moffatt Pdf

This book compiles essays from individuals and groups of Saskatchewan women, highlighting the province's diversity in race, ethnicity, class, religion, and language. The book begins with an essay on the development of Saskatchewan women's history through three stages, then presents essays on the interplay of ethnicity and gender in Swedish women; French-speaking women and homesickness; Jewish women in two rural settings; the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire; women and relief in Saskatoon; farmers' wives; aboriginal women adapting to change; and recent immigrant women.

Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression

Author : Lorraine T. Benuto,Melanie P. Duckworth,Akihiko Masuda,William O'Donohue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030355173

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Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression by Lorraine T. Benuto,Melanie P. Duckworth,Akihiko Masuda,William O'Donohue Pdf

This book addresses the ways in which clinical psychologists ought to conceptualize and respond to the prejudice and oppression that their clients experience. Thus, the link between prejudice and oppression to psychopathology is explored. Basic scientific information about prejudice is reviewed, and the current status of the major minority groups is explored. Chapters examine the role of prejudice and oppression in institutional structures such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and professional organizations. The discussion addresses ways to assess these phenomena in individual cases and how to intervene in psychotherapy. The book ventures to evaluate the status of the profession of psychology with respect to prejudice, stigmatization, and oppression by critically examining evidence that the profession has responded adequately to these social problems. These issues are hard to talk about and are not well talked about in the field. This book is a push in the right direction.

Libraries Publish

Author : Stephanie Katz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216111108

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Libraries Publish by Stephanie Katz Pdf

In this book, author Stephanie Katz, founding editor of the award-winning literary journal 805 Lit + Art, shares practical tools and advice for starting successful creative publishing projects. Publishing benefits libraries by providing high-quality content to patrons, showcasing local writers and faculty, and creating buzz for the library. These endeavors can be launched at any type and size of library, often for little to no cost. Libraries Publish teaches libraries how to publish literary magazines, book review blogs, local anthologies, picture books, library professional journals, and even novels. You'll learn how to run a writing contest or writer-in-residence program, form community partnerships with other literary organizations, find funding, navigate legal considerations, market your publication, and more. Each chapter contains detailed information on how to start your project, including comprehensive checklists, recommendations for free software, and legal considerations. Social media strategies as well as tips for facilitating student or teen-run projects are also covered. If your library wants to start a publishing project, this book will be your go-to resource!

Original Voices

Author : Mary's Place Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0692645462

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Original Voices by Mary's Place Women Pdf

A moving collection of spontaneous, lightly edited poetry and prose pieces written by homeless and formerly homeless women in weekly writing workshops led by Julie Gardner at Mary's Place, a day shelter in Seattle.

Skid Road

Author : Josephine Ensign
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421440132

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Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.

A Golden Voice

Author : Ted Williams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101585634

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YouTube sensation Ted William's memoir of addiction, homelessness, and unlikely redemption, cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Witter Ted Williams was panhandling in December 2010 when a passerby taped him and posted a clip of his gorgeous radio voice on YouTube. The video went viral, and overnight, launched him—the homeless man with a golden voice—into the hearts of millions. Since then, millions have heard pieces of his story: his successful radio career, his crack addiction, his multiple arrests, and his heartbreaking relationship with his ninety-year-old mother. But in A Golden Voice, Ted Williams finally puts all the pieces together to give an unforgettable, searingly honest account of life on the streets. Nothing is held back, as Williams takes the reader through prostitution, theft, crack houses, and homeless shelters in a search, ultimately, for redemption and hope. Along the way, we see his relationship with his long-term girlfriend, Kathy, grow into an unlikely and inspiring love story, and we hear the Golden Voice of God lead Ted from the selfishness of crime to the humility of the street corner—almost a year before he was “discovered” on that highway entrance ramp. But this memoir isn’t just an exploration of wrongs and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to give homelessness a voice. It is a deeply American, from-the-heart comeback story about the power of hope, faith, and personal responsibility. With the innate charisma that has won him millions of fans, Ted Williams proves that no one, no matter how degraded, is too lost for a second chance.