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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Disaster risk reduction in school curricula: case studies from thirty countries
Author: Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author: Michele CutinoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311068733X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
This volume examines for the first time the most important methodological issues concerning Christian poetry – i.e. biblical and theological poetry in classical meters – from a diachronic perspective. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the doctrinal significance of these compositions and the role that they play in the development of Christian theological ideas and biblical exegesis.
Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions
Author: Andrea AbelPublisher: Accademia Europea di Bolzano
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 272
Book Description
Multilingual Literacies
Author: Marilyn Martin-JonesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027298688
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and methodological insights from both fields and provide detailed accounts of everyday practices of reading and writing in different multilingual settings. The focus is primarily on linguistic minority groups in Britain and on the language and literacy experiences of children and adults in rural and urban communities. Together, the chapters of the volume build up a rich and illuminating picture of specific ways in which literacy is bound up with cultural practices and with different ways of seeing the world. They also address fundamental questions about the relationship between language, literacy and power in multi-ethnic contexts.
Smaller, Quicker, Cheaper
Author: Daniel A. WagnerPublisher: United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The effective use of educational assessments is fundamental to improving learning. However, effective use does not refer only to the technical parameters or statistical methodologies. Learning assessments in use todaywhether large-scale or household surveys or hybrid (smaller, quicker, cheaper or SQC)have varied uses and purposes. The present volume provides a review of learning assessments, their status in terms of the empirical knowledge base, and some new ideas for improving their effectiveness, particularly for those children most in need. It is argued here that SQC learning assessments have the potential to enhance educational accountability, increase transparency, and support a greater engagement of stakeholders with an interest in improving learning. In addition, countries need a sustained policy to guide assessment choices, including a focus on poor and marginalized populations.
Linguistic Landscape
Author: Elana ShohamyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135859132
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This title explores linguistic landscape, which refers to the signs, directions, and other documentation that appear in the public space, and includes the interpretation of this 'visible language' in social, political, and economic contexts.
Education for Critical Consciousness
Author: Paulo FreirePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350190179
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requires the changing of structures which dehumanize both the oppressor and the oppressed. This edition includes a substantial new introduction by Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute, UCLA, USA. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos.
Situated Literacies
Author: David BartonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134624220
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all involving real texts and lived practices, are balanced with general claims about the nature of literacy. Contributors address a coherent set of issues: * the visual and material aspects of literacy * concepts of time and space in relation to literacy * the functions of literacies in shaping and sustaining identities in communities of practice * the relationship between texts and the practices associated with their use the role of discourse analysis on literacy studies These studies, along with a foreword by Denny Taylor, make a timely and important contribution to literacy theory and suggest directions for the further development of the field. Situated Literacies is essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.
Unfulfilled Expectations
Author: Catherine E. SnowPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Unfulfilled Expectations examines the home and family characteristics, school teaching practices, and family-school relationships that affect the literacy development of low-income children. Eschewing comparisons across social class, the authors focus exclusively on an ethnically diverse group of low-income children in grades two, four, and six, the thirty-two subjects of an intensive two-year study and a follow-up study five years later. The authors pinpoint the diverse home factors that can explain differential achievement by youngsters from the same socioeconomic background. These include the familys own uses of literacy, their attitudes toward and communication with the schools, their social networks, their rules and schedules, and their susceptibility to economic and psychological stress. The book challenges assumptions about low-income families commitment to and interest in their childrens schooling and offers valuable recommendations for parents, teachers, and administrators to ensure that low-income children fulfill their early promise.