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Groenhout, Rachel C. H. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Somalia has a long and rich oral literacy tradition of poetry, proverbs, and songs, while Somalia's print literacy history has been significantly disrupted by colonization and then the Somali Civil War. Many Somalis have fled the country since the start of the civil war in 1991, and an estimated 10,000 Somalis have made a new home in Maine. When…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Reading Programs, Childrens Literature
McLean, Elisabeth L.; Clymer, Carol D. – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2021
Families have been faced with new challenges and uncertainties during the unprecedented times when the world came to a standstill due to COVID-19 in March 2020. The pandemic caused a shut-down of schools and a shift to a remote learning environment with little chance to prepare and understand learning expectations from schools and other…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Family Literacy