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Toward Community Research and Coalitional Literacy Practices for Educational Justice
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Campano, Gerald; Ghiso, María Paula; Yee, Mary; Pantoja, Alicia – Language Arts, 2013
Community-based research can provide an avenue for understanding the complexities of students' and families' lives and working together for educational justice through what we refer to as coalitional literacy practices. In this article, we share a critical incident about a student's absence from school as an illustrative case of the grass-roots…
Descriptors: Literacy, Community Involvement, Participatory Research, Ethnography
Developing a Useful and Integrative STEM Disciplinary Language
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Capraro, Robert M.; Barroso, Luciana R.; Nite, Sandra; Rice, Devyn; Lincoln, Yvonna; Young, Jamaal; Young, Jemimah – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2018
STEM disciplinary language is a necessary component for STEM success. It can be developed through experiences and attention to the development of STEM activities that are rich in language and can be acquired through practical experiences and systematic practice. Secondary students participated in an informal STEM summer camp where they learned to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Language Usage, Vocabulary, Secondary School Students
Community Indicators: A Framework for Observing and Supporting Community Activity on Cloudworks
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Galley, Rebecca; Conole, Gráinne; Alevizou, Panagiota – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
Cloudworks (Cloudworks.ac.uk) is a social networking site designed for sharing, finding and discussing learning and teaching ideas and experiences. Design and development of the site has been based on an iterative analysis, development and implementation approach, underpinned by ongoing research and evaluation. To this end, we have been seeking to…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
Evaluating Online Dialogue on "Security" Using a Novel Instructional Design
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Arora, Payal – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
This paper explores evaluation strategies to gauge the impact of a novel instructional design on international community participation online. This is done by conceptualizing and devising indicators for measuring "engagement" online amongst marginalized adult communities worldwide. In doing so, a review of online evaluation literature is…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Evaluation Methods, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Environment
Building Nuclear Communities: The Hanford Education Action League.
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Ratliff, Jeanne; Salvador, Michael – 1994
Many scholars have examined the jeremiad in American rhetoric and political discourse. The Hanford Education Action League (HEAL), which influenced policy changes in the operations of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, is a social movement organization whose founding members used the jeremiad to create a symbolic community which…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Higher Education
Collected Papers in Teaching English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education: Themes, Practices, Viewpoints.
Light, Richard L., Ed.; Osman, Alice H., Ed. – 1978
This volume contains the following papers: (1) "Linguistics, TESOL, and Bilingual Education: An Overview," by J.E. Alatis; (2) "TESOL: Meeting a Social Need," by M. Galvan; (3) "Bilingual Education, TESL, and Ethnicity in New York State," by E.B. Nyquist; (4) "Control, Initiative, and the Whole Learner," by…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication