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Kuby, Candace R. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2013
Drawing on theories of multi-modality and critical visual literacy, this article focuses on images that five-and six year-olds painted in a class-made book, Voice on the Bus, about racial segregation. The article discusses how children used illustrations to convey their understandings of Rosa Parks' bus arrest in Alabama. A post-structural view…
Descriptors: Social Action, Literacy, Visual Literacy, Racial Segregation
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Chaudhari, Jaydeep; Ye, Zhirui – Planning for Higher Education, 2010
Auburn University--a prominent land-grant and comprehensive research institute in Alabama--is no exception to the need to grapple with transportation planning. Auburn launched its transit system (called "Tiger Transit") in 1997 to address the needs of student commuters and a shrinking parking supply. However, by 2007 Tiger Transit faced…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Land Use, Maps, Land Grant Universities
Kelley, Joan Thompson; Watkins, J. Foster – Online Submission, 1969
The conversion of an "old school bus" in the late 1960s into a mobile library is discussed. The conversion was an element of educational service developed cooperatively between a regional educational laboratory and a rural school system. The project endeavored to improve the early experiences of future students, many of whom would have…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Libraries, Rural Areas, Preschool Children