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Ann C. Dean – Across the Disciplines, 2023
Scholars in college learning and writing studies have argued that reading has an image problem: we have trouble "seeing" it. This study contributes to making reading visible by collecting a series of images used by faculty and students enrolled in first-year experience courses. Qualitative analysis of interviews with five faculty and 34…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation, Reading Strategies
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Sindhwani, Shyamli; Minissale, Gregory; Weber, Gerald; Lutteroth, Christof; Lambert, Anthony; Curtis, Neal; Broadbent, Elizabeth – Education Sciences, 2020
The ability to analyse aspects of visual culture--works of art, maps or plans, graphs, tables and X-rays--quickly and efficiently is critical in decision-making in a broad range of disciplines. Eye tracking is a technology that can record how long someone dwells on a particular detail in an image, where the eye moves from one part of the image to…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Literacy, Attention
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Charlton, Emma; Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle; Pointon, Pam; Nikolajeva, Maria; Spring, Erin; Taylor, Liz; Wyse, Dominic – Education 3-13, 2014
This paper considers how children perceive and represent their placed-related identities through reading and writing. It reports on the findings of an 18-month interdisciplinary project, based at Cambridge University Faculty of Education, which aimed to consider children's place-related identities through their engagement with, and creation of,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Text Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Geographic Location
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Hodges, Gabrielle Cliff; Nikolajeva, Maria; Taylor, Liz – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
The paper discusses the children's novel "Gaffer Samson's Luck (1984)," by Jill Paton Walsh, from three different perspectives; those of a cultural geographer, a literary scholar and an English teacher. It is part of a larger research project on children's perception of their place-related identities through reading and writing. The novel is used…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Interdisciplinary Approach, English Teachers, Novels
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Barbeiro, Luis Filipe – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This article presents pupils' awareness of writing as elicited through a metawriting task, in other words a task in which pupils from the third, fourth and sixth forms (grades) were required to write about writing. The analysis of the texts revealed the pupils' increasing ability to write texts focusing on writing and on the subject's relationship…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Consciousness Raising, Writing Skills, Instructional Effectiveness
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper briefly reviews the state of the art in reader response research with special reference to the Danish studies in reader responses. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of a number of methodological problems inherent in setting up questions for cross-cultural (and international) studies in general, and for reader response studies in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
As part of the Folktale project, which explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature from and in different cultures, advanced undergraduate students in classes on literary interpretation or literary history analyzed a Danish, a Greenlandic, and a Turkish folk tale. Two male and two female students in classes on literary…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Rice, Diana C.; Snipes, Christy – 1997
The purpose of this research study was to explore the effects of children's trade books on the development of science concepts. The two objectives of this exploratory study were to determine whether children's ideas about specific science concepts change when trade books containing information about those concepts are read to them, and…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1985
This report, the third of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the empirical selection procedure used in order to identify the three tales which were to be used in future…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1987
This paper, the fifth of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the methods used for the construction of a questionnaire for readers' social, educational, financial, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1988
This paper, the last of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, supplies the "Folktale project" with readers' statements which can be used for the construction of a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number eight in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 129 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bennett, Helen; And Others – 1988
This paper, number nine in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 137 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper, number 10 in an ongoing series, is part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures. Presented are the written responses from 140 readers in Denmark, Greenland, Great Britain, India, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Higher Education