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Deirdre Harkins; Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating the landscape of higher education takes more than just attending classes, passing, and graduating. It requires a set of skills known as "college fluency." Libraries play a pivotal role in helping fluency flourish, training their employees and other faculty and staff members across their institution to adapt to the needs of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Knowledge Level, Social Capital
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating higher education requires more than attending classes and completing assignments; it requires "college fluency," a set of skills that enables students, faculty, and staff to effectively locate and utilize institutional resources. College fluency can empower students, faculty, and staff to navigate the complex culture and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Knowledge Level, Social Capital
Yeji Kim – Educational Forum, 2025
Theoretically framed by public pedagogy, the study explores teachers' use of public sites for undocumented migrant children. The findings demonstrate that teachers utilized various non-school, informal, and public spaces including libraries/museums, open marketplaces, and public parks/squares as powerful platforms to foster children's learning,…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Children, Teaching Methods, Sense of Community
Jane McGrail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For members of the dominant culture, libraries produce largely positive affective responses (Farkas). However, researchers and practitioners in the field of library science have identified a need to make library resources more accessible to patrons from marginalized communities who are excluded from library spaces by institutional policies and…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Access to Information, Equal Education
Elmira Jangjou; Deirdre Harkins; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating the landscape of higher education takes more than just attending classes, passing courses, and graduating. It requires a set of skills known as "college fluency," or the knowledge and a corresponding set of abilities that enable students and staff to effectively locate and use relevant college services, programs, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Knowledge Level, Social Capital, Libraries
Priya C. Kumar – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: This article advocates that privacy literacy research and praxis mobilize people toward changing the technological and social conditions that discipline subjects toward advancing institutional, rather than community, goals. Design/methodology/approach: This article analyzes theory and prior work on datafication, privacy, data literacy,…
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Policy, Data Use, Literacy
Roldan, Wendy; Lee, Kung Jin; Nguyen, Kevin; Berhe, Lia; Yip, Jason – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
Large-scale disparities in computing exist for many youth of color. Learning in informal settings can increase the participation of youth in computing; however, computing education programs have typically been developed by adults for youth. We argue computing education can contribute toward decolonization by directly involving youth from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Computer Science Education, Electronic Learning, Design
Samantha Matthews; Tara Laila Blagg; Nastassia Reed; Alexandra Mendoza-Graf; Aarya Suryavanshi; Susan Turner; Laura Whitaker; Stephanie Brooks Holliday – RAND Corporation, 2025
California's Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) funds the implementation of programs for justice system--involved or at-promise youth (i.e., youth who are at risk of becoming involved in the justice system). In this report, the authors evaluated the implementation of programs run by three Los Angeles (L.A.) County agencies that receive…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, State Legislation
Jane Helen Noble – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As teacher educators strive to prepare preservice teachers for careers as literacy instructors and advocates of social justice in education, critical service-learning pedagogy has been considered as an approach for teacher education programs. Tenets of academic study, reflective practice, social change, and the development of authentic…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Johnson, Elizabeth; Culverson, Donald – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2022
Scholars of library and information sciences have addressed the critical roles of libraries in energizing the public sphere, or the social spaces in which ideas and opinions are exchanged. But seldom is the discussion of race, racism, and marginalization examined in public libraries. The concept of the public sphere represents a critical…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Role, Race, Racial Discrimination
Todaro, Rachael; Hassinger-Das, Brenna; Zosh, Jennifer M.; Lytle, Sarah R.; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Afterschool Matters, 2022
High-quality language interactions not only support children's language development, but also promote better long-term academic outcomes. Language learning is the single best predictor of later growth in language, literacy, mathematics, and social development. However, many families do not have access to educationally enriched spaces that spur…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Interaction, Cultural Relevance, Play
Vivianna Marie Goh; Susan Bibler Coutin; Kameryn Denaro; Michael Dennin; Richard Matthew; Dmitry Tsukerman – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a California public university launched the Pandemic Histories Archive Project (PHAP) in collaboration with the library. This online service-learning opportunity empowered undergraduates to describe and reflect on their pandemic experiences and represent their communities by contributing to the library's…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Archives, Partnerships in Education, COVID-19
Givens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
Gilmore, Melinda, Ed.; Nielsen, Randall, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2017
The Kettering Foundation is a nonprofit, operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research. The foundation seeks to identify and address the challenges to making democracy work as it should through interrelated program areas that focus on citizens, communities, and institutions. Each issue of this annual newsletter…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Neighborhoods, Child Rearing
Little, Priscilla M. – Forum for Youth Investment, 2021
Early literacy is a key predictor of grade-level reading and school success. Too often, however, young children do not have equitable access to literacy-rich environments that foster the skills needed to attain reading proficiency by the end of third grade. While high-quality preschool and early elementary programs are necessary early literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Learning Activities, Play