Connections--literacy and Cultural Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connections--literacy and Cultural Heritage write by Darlene E. Weingand. This book was released on 1992. Connections--literacy and Cultural Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditional literacy, usually defined as the ability to read print materials, is but one component in a connected series. In an effort to facilitate the concept of connections, this book has been divided into four main sections: The many faces of literacy; the land and people of Iceland; the lessons from Iceland, an examination of the results of 57 interviews with fish factory workers, educators, librarians, community leaders, publishers, and students. The interviews sought the reasons for the remarkable nearly-100% print literacy in Iceland. Numerous tables summarize the interview data; and implications for the future.
Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events
Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events write by Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt. This book was released on 2008-09-01. Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens. Through the use of specific multimedia, literature and literacy events, this book presents numerous ways for classroom teachers and schools to promote respectful, responsible, caring, and sharing students in a democratic society. Beginning with Plato’s message that we cannot let the formation of good citizens to chance, Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events takes the reader through a brief history of character education and moral development and a summary of multimedia’s impact on our lives. The chapters that follow are devoted to teacher tested classroom and school programs, activities, and resources for the understanding of diverse human perspectives. Included in several chapters are the unique ways classes might analyze how and why information is presented in the media. Due to the constant media bombardment on our lives, the goal if this volume is to support our students as they discern the meanings of truth and justice.
Imagining Literacy
Imagining Literacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Literacy write by Ramona Fernandez. This book was released on 2001-09-15. Imagining Literacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Defining the "common knowledge" a "literate" person should possess has provoked intense debate ever since the publication of E. D. Hirsch's controversial book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. Yet the basic concept of "common knowledge," Ramona Fernandez argues, is a Eurocentric model ill-suited to a society composed of many distinct cultures and many local knowledges. In this book, Fernandez decodes the ideological assumptions that underlie prevailing models of cultural literacy as she offers new ways of imagining and modeling mixed cultural and non-print literacies. In particular, she challenges the biases inherent in the "encyclopedias" of knowledge promulgated by E. D. Hirsch and others, by Disney World's EPCOT Center, and by the Smithsonian Institution. In contrast to these, she places the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose works model a cultural literacy that weaves connections across many local knowledges and many ways of knowing.
Intersecting Literacies
Intersecting Literacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intersecting Literacies write by Mary Kathleen Thompson. This book was released on 2005. Intersecting Literacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cultural Literacy
Cultural Literacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Literacy write by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.. This book was released on 1988. Cultural Literacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.
