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Literacy Volunteer Preparation and Organizational Goals in a Service Learning and a Family Literacy Training Program: Historicizing Literacy Campaigns, Volunteers, and Schools
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Nora McCook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines literacy volunteer preparation historically and comparatively for two contemporary case study organizations: one that coordinated a university service learning/study abroad program and one that ran a family literacy program. The author reviews major contributions literacy studies has made to literacy theory and practice…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Service Learning
Participants' Perspectives of Transitions from Family Literacy Programs to Postsecondary Education
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Sullivan, Natha June Lott – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore aspects of the Even Start Family Literacy program and college experiences that are helpful or detrimental to the process of transition from Even Start to college as perceived by students who have successfully made that transition. The study focused on the role of developmental education in the…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Family Literacy, Researchers, Tutoring
Pathfinders: A Life History Study of 10 Academically Successful Latinos from San Antonio
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Castillo, Victor Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the study rise of the Hispanic population in the United States over the last 25-years there has been a languished progression of this populations' educational attainment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to tap into the "black-box" of ten academically successful Latino students from San Antonio by capturing the life history…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Educational Attainment