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Social Design-Based Experiments: A Proleptic Approach to Literacy
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Gutiérrez, Kris D. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2018
The author, Kris Gutiérrez, is a learning scientist whose work has centered on understanding the cultural dimensions of learning, with particular interest in understanding how to leverage youths' everyday concepts and practices toward more expansive and equitable forms of learning. Gutiérrez discusses the big ideas that informed her work in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Cultural Influences, Learning, Social Theories
Extended--and Extending--Literacies
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Moje, Elizabeth Birr; Ellison, Tisha Lewis – Journal of Education, 2016
We examine the impact of "Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading" ("BNR") (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985) with the idea of extending literacy learning beyond the early grades, describing present-day conceptions of secondary-school literacy learning, and calling to "further…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Secondary Education, Reading, Multiple Literacies
Head Start Parent Involvement Activities: Measuring the Effect of School Based Parent Involvement Activities on Parent Efficacy in Early Childhood Learning
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Quadri, Khadijat O. – Online Submission, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this position paper was to examine the impact of school based parent involvement activities on parent efficacy. Methodology: The paper explores research studies into school based activities on long term parent efficacy. Conclusions: Most schools are involving parents in school-based activities in a variety of ways but the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space
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Gutierrez, Kris D. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
This essay argues for a paradigm shift in what counts as learning and literacy education for youth. Two related constructs are emphasized: collective Third Space and sociocritical literacy. The construct of a collective Third Space builds on an existing body of research and can be viewed as a particular kind of zone of proximal development. The…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Ecology, Literacy, Student Leadership
Promoting Equity in Children's Literacy Instruction: Using a Critical Race Theory Framework to Examine Transitional Books
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Hughes-Hassell, Sandra; Barkley, Heather A.; Koehler, Elizabeth – School Library Media Research, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine books that support transitional readers to determine the representation of people of color. The findings were analyzed using critical race theory (CRT), a theoretical framework that places race at the center of educational research and discourse. The results indicate that despite the increasing ethnic and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Social Justice, Literacy Education, Student Diversity
Language and Literacy in the Pentecostal Church and the Public High School: A Case Study of a Mexican ESL Student
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Ek, Lucila D. – High School Journal, 2009
Drawing from a multi-year ethnography of a Latino/a immigrant Pentecostal church and from high school observations and interviews of three focal students, this article compares the language and literacy experiences of an immigrant Mexican Pentecostal adolescent in church and school contexts. I document how the youth's Sunday school class fostered…
Descriptors: High Schools, Critical Theory, Literacy Education, Ethnography