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Direct linkGuzmán-Simón, Fernando; Moreno-Morilla, Celia; García-Jiménez, Eduardo – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2018
This article is based on a socio-cultural discourse model of literacy, whereby literacy events are regarded as being situated within social practices, creating various formal, informal, and non-formal literacy events that are part of multiliteracies. The aim of the research was to analyze primary pupils' literacy practices (8-12 years) from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Breton, Theodore R.; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Latin American students consistently score low on international tests of cognitive skills. In the PISA 2012 results, students in seven Latin American countries had an average score of 395 in mathematics, or about 100 points lower than the average score of 497 in four Scandinavian countries. We estimate the effect of socioeconomic characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Scores, Educational Quality
Perry, Kristen H.; Homan, Annie – Journal of Literacy Research, 2014
Through this international cross-case analysis of ethnographic literacy practices data, we investigated two questions: (1) In what literacy practices do adults with limited or no schooling engage for personal fulfillment? and (2) What do these practices reveal about the nature of literacy for individuals who are often characterized as illiterate?…
Descriptors: Adults, Illiteracy, Ethnography, Educational Attainment
