Language and Literacy Education in Remote Indigenous Schools

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Parkin ◽  
Helen Harper
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Education ◽  
Language And Literacy

Discourses about language and literacy education in Portugal: past and present

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (259) ◽  
pp. 15-38
Author(s):  
Clara Keating
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract This article presents a historical analysis of discourses about language and literacy that have emerged during different periods in the political and cultural history of Portugal. It covers six periods, from the colonial era to the present, and it considers different geopolitical spaces, including the Portuguese mainland, the Atlantic archipelagos, former Portuguese colonies and diasporic spaces created as a result of emigration from Portugal. The article traces three kinds of discursive shift: (1) shifts in discourses in Portuguese society regarding the goals of language and literacy education, along with associated discourses about appropriate language and literacy pedagogies; (2) shifts in discourses about the specific nature and significance of literacy in Portuguese; and (3) shifts in discourses about the value and symbolic power of standardized forms of spoken and written Portuguese. It shows how each historical period has been characterized by distinctive political and ideological currents which have, in turn, shaped and re-shaped ways of thinking about the role of language and literacy education in the definition of citizenship and national identity, in the construction of heritage, in the creation of a “modern” democratic state and, more recently, in the retooling of human resources to create a flexible labour force.

scholarly journals Exquisite Attention: Introduction to the Special Issue of Language & Literacy

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lyndsay Moffatt
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Education ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Language Literacy

It gives me great honour to welcome you to this special issue of Language & Literacy.  In this issue you will find a range of thoughtful and provocative inquiries that reflect some of the diverse range of research in language and literacy education today. This issue was born of the recent marriage of the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) and Language & Literacy: A Canadian ejournal. From this point forward these two organizations have made a commitment to support each other in their efforts to sustain critical conversations about language and literacy education and research.

Humanizing the Tenure Years for Faculty of Color: Reflections From STAR Mentors

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Turner ◽  
Marcelle M. Haddix ◽  
Mileidis Gort ◽  
Eurydice B. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
School Administrators ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Faculty Of Color ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Education Administrators

In this essay, some of the 2015-2017 STAR mentors (mentors of authors in this special issue) illustrate the importance for policymakers, professional organizations, school administrators, and state and system administrators to foster bidirectional relationships with early career scholars of Color. This Insight Column provides the field of language and literacy education, administrators, and state and federal policymakers with recommendations and implications on how to better prepare, serve, retain, and humanize early career scholars of Color.

The Racial Hauntings of One Black Male Professor and the Disturbance of the Self(ves): Self-Actualization and Racial Storytelling as Pedagogical Practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamar L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Black Male ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Future Selves ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Methodological Practice

Through a series of racialized stories, I illustrate the familial knowledge, racial hauntings, and educational experiences that forge(d) the beginning and the continuing of my racial identity as a Black male. To examine these stories, I employ racial storytelling as a theoretical, methodological, curricular, and pedagogical tool to assist me in a deep excavation of my past, present, and future selves and to illuminate the literacies that my Black male body brings to the classroom. Racial storytelling illustrates how my racial encounters from the past situate themselves in the current moment and still haunt me today. As such, I (re)enter these embodied stories to demonstrate how life moments impact how I think about racial issues in today’s context. The questions that guide this line of inquiry are the following: (a) How can educators employ racial storytelling as a pedagogical and methodological practice? (b) How can language and literacy scholars of Color use the radical (self) imagination as a thought and concept to face our racial ghosts and to analyze our hauntings? In closing, I propose the radical (self) imagination as a recommendation for literacy scholars of Color and language and literacy education.

scholarly journals Information Literacy Education in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia W. Dike ◽  
Ogo N. Amucheazi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Teacher Orientation ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
The Way ◽  
Nigerian Education

This paper explores the prospects of information literacy education in Nigerian primary schools. It is argued that while information literacy is essential for attaining the objectives of Nigerian education, a number of barriers stand in the way. These include the learning environment, lack of resources, language and literacy problems, and teacher orientation and teaching practice. The information literacy project described in this paper is attempting to break down the barriers through innovative use of available local resources.

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