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Comber, Barbara – Language Arts, 2013
Schools bring people together. Yet for many children there are major discontinuities between their lives in and out of school and such differences impact on literacy teaching and learning in both predictable and unpredictable ways. However if schools were reconceptualised as meeting places, where different people are thrown together (Massey, 2005)…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Teacher Researchers
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Comber, Barbara; Kamler, Barbara – Teaching Education, 2004
The fact that children growing up in poverty are likely to be in the lower ranges of achievement on standardised literacy tests is not a new phenomenon. Internationally there are a myriad of intervention and remedial programmes designed to address this problem with a range of effects. Frequently, sustainable reforms are curtailed by deficit views…
Descriptors: Research Design, Poverty, Research Methodology, Family Attitudes