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Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
Paulo Freire,Donaldo Macedo +1 more
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A word wall is a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom and contains an array of words that can be used during writing and reading as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Literacy wikipedia, literacy data published by unesco displays that since 1950, the adult literacy rate at the world level has increased by 5 percentage points every decade on average, from 557 per cent in 1950 to 862 per cent in 2015 however, for four decades, the population growth was so rapid that the number of illiterate adults kept increasing, rising from 700 million in 1950 to 878 million in 1990. Word walls classroom strategies reading rockets, a word wall is a collection of words which are displayed in large visible letters on a wall, bulletin board, or other display surface in a classroom the word wall is designed to be an interactive tool for students and contains an array of words that can be used during writing and reading.read more
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A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures
Bill Cope,Mary Kalantzis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the multiplicity of communications channels and increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the world today call for a much broader view of literacy than portrayed by traditional language-based approaches.
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The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place:
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical pedagogy of place is proposed, which seeks the twin objectives of decolonization and re-habitation through synthesizing critical and place-based approaches.
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The Place of Story in the Study of Teaching and Teacher Education
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that stories capture, more than scores or mathematical formulae ever can, the richness and indeterminacy of our experiences as teachers and the complexity of our understandings of what teaching is and how others can be prepared to engage in this profession.
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Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers.
TL;DR: They had for more than a century before been regarded as so far inferior that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit as discussed by the authors and this opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.
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Multimodality and Literacy in School Classrooms
TL;DR: Luke and Car rington as discussed by the authors argue that it is not possible to think about literacy solely as a linguistic accomplishment and that the time for the habitual con junction of language, print literacy, and learning is over.