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How Can We Study Children's/Youth's Out of School Experiences to Inform Classroom Practices?
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McCarthey, Sarah; Duke, Nell K.; Bloome, David; Faust, Sara; García-Sánchez, Inmaculada M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Alvermann, Donna – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
The collection of papers represented in the Integrative Research Review responds to the question: How can we study children's/youth's out of school experiences to inform classroom practices? Using a variety of lenses to address the question, the authors consider how to understand, respond to, and serve children and youth in a variety of contexts.…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Student Experience, Language Usage, Literacy
Moving Forward with Exceptional Literacy Research and Practice amidst Educational Policy Changes
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Majors, Yolanda; Lewis, Cynthia; Tierney, Robert J.; Beach, Richard – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
In this Insights column, four authors address the question: Given current and potential shifts in education policy, what should literacy educators keep in mind to move forward with exceptional literacy research and practices? Majors and Lewis urge white scholars to reach out to scholars of color in learning how to generate counter-arguments that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Research
Best Practices in Teaching Digital Literacies. Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation. Volume 9
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Ortlieb, Evan, Ed.; Cheek, Earl H., Jr., Ed.; Semingson, Peggy, Ed. – Literacy Research, Practice and Evaluation, 2018
The almost universal reliance upon digital tools for social, academic, and career development will only become more pronounced in the years to come. Teacher education programs remain ill-equipped to adequately prepare educators with the pedagogies needed to foster digital literacies. What is needed is a set of best practices towards teaching…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Teacher Education Programs
Examining the Relative Contributions of Content Knowledge and Strategic Processing to Comprehension
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Aukerman, Maren; Brown, Rachel; Mokhtari, Kouider; Valencia, Sheila; Palincsar, Annemarie – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2015
The essays below were prepared following the LRA session organized by Janice Almasi entitled, "Examining the relative contributions of content knowledge and strategic processing to comprehension." What unites these essays are the personal and historical stances that each writer has taken; in addition, the essays are rich with…
Descriptors: Essays, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Theories
Literacy Documentation. Volume VII, Number 1, 1978.
Literacy Documentation, 1978
Three abstracts and seventy-five acquisitions related to adult literacy are presented. A few of the acquisition entries are in French. The abstracts are of the following: "Directory of Organizations Offering Literacy Training Courses," by the International Institute of Adult Literacy Methods; "Directory of Universities and Institutes Offering…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bibliographies
The General College Vision: Integrating Intellectual Growth, Multicultural Perspectives, and Student Development
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Higbee, Jeanne L., Ed.; Lundell, Dana B., Ed.; Arendale, David R., Ed. – Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, University of Minnesota, 2005
This book explores the vision and contributions of the former General College, a program existing 74 years in the University of Minnesota, highlighting its history, mission, programs, research, and student services. This includes an evolving and dynamic program for teaching, learning, and research for student success in higher education. Following…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Intellectual Development, Student Development, Higher Education