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Esther Prins
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 72
Citations - 1048
Esther Prins is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Family literacy & Adult education. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 67 publications receiving 953 citations.
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Participatory photography: A tool for empowerment or surveillance?
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a participatory photography project with a Salvadoran adult literacy program explores some of the challenges and risks that arise when people use cameras to participate in the program.
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Unintended Outcomes in Second Life: Intercultural Literacy and Cultural Identity in a Virtual World
William C. Diehl,Esther Prins +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory study examining the construction of cultural identity and development of intercultural literacy among 29 Second Life (SL) participants was conducted. And the findings reveal that in many ways participation in SL enhanced participants' inter-cultural literacy, for example, by fostering use of multiple languages, cross-cultural encounters and...
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“It Feels Like a Little Family to Me” Social Interaction and Support Among Women in Adult Education and Family Literacy
TL;DR: Supportive social relationships are an important dimension of marginalized women's participation in community-based adult education programs as mentioned in this paper, however, policy makers and researchers often consider this dimension in their analysis.
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Framing a Conflict in a Community-University Partnership:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how four members of a partnership framed a dispute in rural California and examined how they resolved tacit, divergent expectations about communication, decision making, and authority.
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Defining and Measuring Parenting for Educational Success: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Parent Education Profile
Esther Prins,Blaire Willson Toso +1 more
TL;DR: This article used Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the Parent Education Profile (PEP) constructs the ideal parent, the text's underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects, showing that the PEP lends support to several dominant discourses regarding poor and minority families, such as the discourse of parent involvement and the mothering discourse, which encourages mothers' supplementary educational work.