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"They're Like Slash": Multimodality and Embodied Agency in Students' Critical Engagements with Texts
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María José Aragón; Meghan Corella; Nora W. Lang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Despite recent calls to more fully incorporate multimodal perspectives into literacies research, there is still limited scholarship examining how students critically engage in reading activities by drawing on embodied practices. Racially and linguistically minoritized students are particularly disadvantaged by dominant logocentric and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities, Public Schools
The Promise and Joy of Liminality in the Disney "Descendants" Series
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Stephanie Anne Shelton – Journal of Children's Literature, 2023
Liminality, both etymologically and practically, is generally meant to be navigated through, not permanently occupied. The Disney "Descendants" series, marketed for ages seven to twelve, is an example of children's literature that engages with liminality as not only a lasting choice but also one of joy and reconciliation. The books…
Descriptors: Books, Psychological Patterns, Personal Autonomy, Literary Devices
A Freirean Analysis of Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture's School Literacy Movement
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Anita; Sudrajat, Ajat; Aman – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Since joining The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Indonesia has been actively shaping its education policy following the recommendations derived from the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). In response to the consistently low PISA reading scores, in 2015 the Indonesian Ministry of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Behavioral Engagement among Adolescents with Reading Difficulties: The Role of Active Involvement in a Universally Designed Digital Literacy Platform
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Daley, Samantha G.; Xu, Yang; Proctor, C. Patrick; Rappolt-Schlichtmann, Gabrielle; Goldowsky, Boris – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
We use the affordances of a supplemental digital literacy platform to study the dynamics of behavioral engagement and reading comprehension among middle-school students in remedial reading classes. All participating students (n = 315) were identified by their schools as needing additional reading support; 56% received special education services.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Access to Education, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students
Crip Disruptions: Agency, Anti-Compliance, and Autistext
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Tara Wood – College Composition and Communication, 2019
Disability studies (DS) within rhetoric and composition has productively challenged us to reexamine our commonplace assumptions about "normal" students and enabled us to understand the generative capacities of disability as critical lens. Such presence has created more space for more minds and bodies not only in classrooms but among…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetoric, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Children's Responses to the Interactivity of Storybook Apps in Family Shared Reading Events Involving the iPad
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Aliagas, Cristina; Margallo, Ana María – Literacy, 2017
This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen-based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2-year, small-scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Responses, Interaction