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At the edge of reason: Three language and literacy educators' classroom experiences teaching born-digital students
DownloadFall 2010
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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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...