This dissertation examines individual, constricted agency in a multilingual environment within the context of a language discussion group and the form of social capital possessed by their Mexican Indigenous diasporic community living on the California Central Coast. The research…
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The effectiveness of Grameen Bank (GB) programs in promoting empowerment, as indicated by several variables, among its women participants was studied. The variables included income generation, decision-making concerning the use and distribution of household resources, participat…
The purpose of this study was to determine whether mapping with Cognitive Behavior Modification would produce superior performance to mapping without Cognitive Behavior Modification. Forty-seven learning disabled students, twenty-seven eighth graders and twenty seventh graders, …
This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined "the word and their world" (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and lang…
Through a qualitative case study (Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), this inquiry examined how eight African American adolescent girls wrote representations of themselves and which contextual factors contributed to their writings. The girls, ages 12-17 years old, participated in a four-…
Pressure to standardize curriculum, assessment, and instruction is rapidly whittling perceptions of what counts as literacy in public schools. Educators risk fostering compliance and cementing preconceived categorization of students, rather than critical thinking when orderlines…
The purpose of this dissertation study is to document, describe, and analyze the literacy practices of teachers and librarians in nine primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For the last 50 years and continuing to the present, international agencies, non-governmental organiza…
This dissertation interrogates the global material consequences of the rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"--a public discourse wh…
Fourteen Iranian-Canadian bilingual students were tested for language ability as well as cognitive and phonological processing skills in two languages: Farsi and English. They were compared to 30 Iranian monolingual chronological age matched students and 30 Canadian chronologica…
This is a study of language and literacy in an ancient multi-lingual setting, Judaea in the years 63 B.C.E. - 136 C.E. It first surveys scholarly views on these topics, and then proposes a new method of investigating the questions raised: a study of the signed documents and lett…
This study investigates the importance of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) in helping Afghan women gain high level literacy skills. Their skills are developed through their participation in the AWWP which enables them to move into the workforce of their country independ…
Thomas Hirschhorn's 2002 "Bataille Monument" came under some attack for improperly treating an ethnic neighborhood of Turkish-German people as an exotic other. Hirschhorn is said to have made the art world viewers from Documenta 11 feel like they were invading another's space. I…
In spite of the considerable attention devoted to the third/ninth century by scholars of Arabic literature, credit for the elaboration of the notion of adab in its wide, if imprecise, meaning of literary culture, is given to and concentrated upon only a handful of writers. The d…
Literacy is best understood not merely as a functional tool but as a relationship between self and other. Viewed as relationship, literacy is a vivid point of encounter and difference between cultures and worldviews. When literacy is projected as a neutral and objective medium f…
The purpose of the study, "Value and Authenticity: Young Adult Readers Respond to African American Literature" (hereafter known as "Value"), was to discover how four middle school students take up some traditionally used classroom novels. In other words, "Value" wanted to find o…
The purpose of this study was to provide an interpretive commentary of the first Mass Literacy Campaign in Nigeria from 1940-1952. The researcher traced earlier events and forces as they interacted to shape the Campaign. Within the context in which they occurred, five major area…
Becker Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan is a school wide chapter program with 79 percent of its students on free or reduced lunch. This unique population of students consists of 93 percent second language learners, mainly of Arabic descent. Becker has experienced this yea…
Judaism has traditionally embraced text study as a communal endeavor of dialogic interpretation. Yet, synagogue schools have largely ignored this social practice, framing literacy instead as a set of skills to “inoculate” Jewish students from assimilation into secular culture. T…
The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…