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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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"I Don't Know What Literacy Is": Uncovering Hidden Literacies in a Community Library Using Ecological and Participatory Research Methodologies with Children
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Pahl, Kate; Allan, Chloe – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
This article describes an ecological study in Eastside, a particular area of Rotherham, a town in the north of England, UK. The purpose of the study was to collect information about literacy practices in a community setting, focusing on a library. The researchers used an ecological approach to data collection. The methodology included approaches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Video Technology, Photography
Interactions, Intersections and Improvisations: Studying the Multimodal Texts and Classroom Talk of Six- to Seven-Year-Olds
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Pahl, Kate – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
This article examines the relationship between children's talk in the classroom and their multimodal texts. The article uses an analytic framework derived from Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine how 6-7-year-old children's regular ways of being and doing can be found in their multimodal texts together with their talk (Bourdieu, 1977, 1990).…
Descriptors: Discussion, Classroom Communication, Literacy, Creativity