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At the edge of reason: Three language and literacy educators' classroom experiences teaching born-digital students
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Contemporary English language arts (ELA) teachers engage students who have been born into a digital world where emergent literacies challenge the traditionally authoritative perspectives and physical boundaries of books and classrooms. This qualitative case study inquired into the classroom...
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Reading Between the Lines and Against the Grain: English Language Arts and Social Reproduction in Alberta
DownloadFall 2012
Alberta's 2003 High School English Language Arts curriculum produces differential literacies because it grants some students access to high-status cultural knowledge and some students access to merely functional skills. This differential work reflects an important process in sorting, selecting,...
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The Constancy of the School ‘Canon’: A Survey of Texts Used in Grade 10 English Language Arts in 2006 and 1996
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Storie, D., DeBlois, E., Vermeer, L., Mackey, M.
This article reports on a 2006 survey of texts used in Grade 10 English language arts classes in Edmonton, Alberta. The survey uses the same instrument as a previous 1996 survey and provides comparative data from a section of the same pool as participated in 1996. In terms of the most popular...
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Fall 2012
Across the province of Alberta, in the January 2010 sitting of the Government mandated English Language Arts 30-1 diploma exam, the average grade for this exam was 62%. Serious concerns erupted because of this drop in mark, concerns that led to my research study. The purpose of this...
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Unlearning the Monster: Teaching English language arts with an anti-colonial, feminist approach
Download2025-04-07
This paper uses an autoethnographic approach to explore how educators can build solidarity with non-White students and unlearn White supremacist ontologies present in education. It critiques policies, particularly Teaching Quality Standard (TQS5) and anti-racism commitments, which position...