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STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation. Social Justice across Contexts in Education
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Barnes-Johnson, Joy, Ed.; Johnson, Janelle M., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018
"STEM21: Equity in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges of Standards, Engagement and Transformation" is designed to contribute to discourses about how STEM teaching and learning can become more equitable, serving the needs of readers across the STEM educational spectrum. "STEM21" is meant to problematize the status…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Equal Education, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice
Promoting Literacy Development: 50 Research-Based Strategies for K-8 Learners
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Antonacci, Patricia A.; O'Callaghan, Catherine M. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Organized around 10 key areas for teaching and learning literacy--phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, story comprehension, comprehension of informational text, questioning for understanding, discussion for understanding, narrative writing, and writing to learn--"Promoting Literacy Development" offers 50 clearly written,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Second Language Learning, Literacy
Linking Science and Literacy in the K-8 Classroom
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Douglas, Rowena; Worth, Karen; Klentschy, Mike – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2006
This book is aimed at teachers who feared they do not know how to integrate science with all-important language arts lessons. The message: It isn't just possible to incorporate science into language arts, it also makes a lot of sense. "Linking Science and Literacy" is divided into two kinds of convincing content. In 16 chapters, prominent National…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Reading Instruction, Science Instruction, Literacy
Voices of Canadian Literacy. Plus Teacher's Guide and Workbook.
Weinstein, Lee, Ed. – 2002
This book presents the lives, stories, and photographs of Canadian adults who are literacy learners. Each of the seven features in the book tells one aspect of Canada's literacy story. "Orval: The Stories of Orval Daugherty," includes: "Time is Short" (Bounchanh Chanthavimone); "Flash Back" (Wendi Rooks); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Guides
Amish Literacy: What and How It Means.
Fishman, Andrea – 1988
Using a descriptive personal narrative that marks ethnographic research, this book looks at literacy education in the Amish culture and considers the implications that this perspective reveals for mainstream education. Divided into 12 chapters, the book chronicles the life of an Amish family, the Fishers, focusing specifically on the attitudes…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography
Achieving Literacy: Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents Learning to Read.
Meek, Margaret; And Others – 1983
The eight chapters in this book relate the experiences and reflections of six researchers/teachers who set out to teach five students who had failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy. The book also provides a great deal of information about many of the central topics of teaching literacy: children's motivation, the influence of social and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Theories, Learning Processes
Culture-Specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy. Child Language and Child Development.
Minami, Masahiko – 2002
This book examines how culturally specific aspects of Japanese preschool children's narrative discourse skills develop and eventually lead to literacy. It discusses how language shapes and is shaped by culture-specific experiences, analyzing how young Japanese children develop narrative structure and how Japanese parents guide their children in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis