Sentences with phrase «from cultural literacy»

The following articles complement the case E. D. Hirsch, Jr. makes in his books from Cultural Literacy (1987) to Why Knowledge Matters (2016)-- in sum, that «only a well - rounded, knowledge - specific curriculum can impart needed knowledge to all children and overcome inequality of opportunity.»

This is no surprise to fans of E.D. Hirsch, whose research over the last 25 years (from Cultural Literacy (1987) to The Making of Americans (2010)-RRB-, has shown that teaching children a wide - ranging but comprehensive content heavy curriculum actually improves reading more than teaching reading skills does.

Not exact matches

«Conducting formal readability testing, as suggested by the study authors, along with use of patient reviewers from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds may provide important feedback to enhance the value of materials across a larger spectrum of health literacy levels.»

So, as Kahn notes, we have environmental literacies in the university antiseptically cleaved from issues of cultural and linguistic democracy, indigenous sovereignty and human rights.

The Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE, Lesaux conducts research focusing on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children and youth from diverse linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds.

Drawing from the research of HGSE Professor Pamela Mason, the workshop explores the concept of «critical literacy» as a tool for examining the cultural assumptions embedded within literature.

Hollis expands her approach by also using read alouds for cultural literacy, or to help students understand writings from the 19th century and earlier, such as Charles Dickens» Great Expectations, Homer's Odyssey, or the plays of Shakespeare.

She leads a research program that focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children and youth from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

Using an existing set of video cases from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series, «Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms,» we developed Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment designed to help novices understand that there are many successful tools and approaches available to engage students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and intellectual backgrounds in challenging literacy curricula.

What distinguishes Equity Literacy, broadly speaking, from these and other popular frameworks is Equity Literacy's recognition that the problem is not primarily cultural.

From this cultural dissonance, there emerged a mutually adaptive approach to the literacy instruction of Hmong learners.

From after school clubs to international trips, we give our students access to the cultural literacy to enable them to fully participate in adult educated life.

It's been long understood that literacy is the foundation from which cultural revolutions are born, and the opening of Sajia Darwish's library is the first step in a multidimensional approach to support a reading culture in her Kabul community.

Literacy is deeply rooted in cultural experience, and our society presents teachers with a broad and rich diversity of children whose cultural experience may differ considerably from their own.

(2) How does participation influence their understandings of literacy — its cultural foundations as well as the process of learning from literature?

The purpose of this paper, then, is to analyze the cultural conflicts of Latina educators as they emerged from descriptions of their literacy acquisition in home and at school, and of their teacher education experiences.

Terrific for literacy, educational improvement and many of the cultural benefits that accrue from books.

Aside from the cultural importance of libraries as institutions, they have always held a reputation as being the greatest champions of literacy and freedom of speech.

Also informed by studies in visual literacy at New York University and cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago, the simultaneous viewpoints presented in his grids of photo imagery - sourced from the environment, movies, Internet and print media - point to insights beyond any given framing device.

New firms, products and services often claim to espouse benefits which on closer examination reveal that the founders don't understand the nuances of providing information to people who may have limited functional or digital literacy, or are from diverse socio - economic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

Disciplines ranging from medicine, science, sales, administration surrounding marriage and family, literacy, market research, cultural diversity and cultural competency and education.

Linguistic competence is the capacity to convey information in a manner that is easily understood by children, families, and program staff from diverse backgrounds and abilities including persons of limited English proficiency and low literacy skills (adapted from the National Center for Cultural Competence)

Drawing on data from a qualitative, longitudinal study, this article explores how former adult literacy participants in rural El Salvador conceptualized the cultural model of educación, a model encompassing academic knowledge and social competence.