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Direct linkAnnette Woods – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of foundational research that has informed how the field of literacy education understands the importance of child-adult interactions for learning language and early literacy, and the importance of this learning for learning literacy later in life. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Bacalja, Alexander – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
Ideological struggles over the policy and practice of literacy education continue to characterise the field. This paper explores how 'new policy actors', market-orientated and profit-driven players, construct the crisis of literacy and schooling in Australia to reclaim the doxa of literacy education. The concept of doxa is employed to show how…
Descriptors: Literacy, Ideology, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Russell Cross; Jacqueline D'warte; Yvette Slaughter – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
In this paper, we discuss the place of plurilingualism in Language and Literacy Education. The article problematises English-only, monolingual-centric assumptions upon which much of Australia's current literacy education policy discourse has been based, to instead advance "pluriliteracies" as an alternate, more generative lens through…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Policy, English, Monolingualism
Barbara Laster; Rebecca Rogers; Tiffany Gallagher; D. Beth Scott; Sheri Vasinda; Pelusa Orellana; Joan Rhodes; Theresa Deeney; Rachael Waller; Mary Hoch; Leslie Cavendish; Tammy Milby; Melinda Butler; Tracy Johnson; Shadrack Msengi; Cheryl Dozier; Shelly Huggins; Debra Gurvitz – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2024
Literacy clinics have a long history of providing supplemental assessment and instruction to students with literacy needs, but they were tested during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many pivoted from a face-to face format to three-way remote learning. This study provides a window into how literacy clinics at this moment of transformation in education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Literacy, Foreign Countries
Sabet, Navid – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This article examines the potential contribution of social enterprise to the "wicked" problem of creativity and literacy in a performative schooling environment, drawing on an ethnographic study of Ciento, a social enterprise organization that works with under-resourced young people, families, and communities in Melbourne, Australia. In…
Descriptors: Creativity, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Social Change
Troy Meston; Debbie Bargallie; Susan Whatman – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
Health and physical education (HPE) is a discursively white, Western learning domain. Despite minor disruptions through radical scholarship in HPE research and teacher education (often referred to as PETE), and the implementation of curricular devices and/or models-based practices promoting inclusion in HPE teaching, more radical work to honour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Physical Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Patricia Dowsett; Nathanael Reinertsen – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2023
Senior secondary Literature courses in Australia all aim, to various extents, to develop students' critical literacy skills. These aims share emphases on reading, reflecting and responding critically to texts, on critical analysis and critical ideas, and on forming interpretations informed by critical perspectives. Critical literacy is not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Literacy, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textJaviera Atenasa; Leo Havemannb; Chrissi Nerantzi – Research in Learning Technology, 2024
This paper offers guidance on employing open and creative methods for co- designing critical data and artificial intelligence (AI) literacy spaces and learning activities, rooted in the principles of Data Justice. Through innovative approaches, we aim to enhance participation in learning, research and policymaking, fostering a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Data, Literacy, Teaching Methods
Newman, Bronwyn; Fisher, Karen R.; Trollor, Julian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Introduction: Access to health information is a right for all people. Easy read information is one strategy used to make information accessible for people with intellectual disability. This research explored how easy read is used and the ways accessible information can address access barriers, with a focus on Australian mental health services.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health Programs, Access to Information, Readability
Ryan, Mary; Barton, Georgina – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
The recasting of education as an economic rather than a social good means that governments around the world will continue to pursue agendas to show that schooling systems are effective in raising standards. Literacy is a key area of comparison on the world stage, placing literacy educators under enormous pressure to perform in this culture of…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Teachers, Literacy Education, Accountability
Trish Weekes; Pauline Jones – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2021
Education systems around the world have moved to develop literacy progressions that describe a sequence of development in oral language (talking and listening), reading/viewing and writing. In Australia, the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2021) is designed to support students' literacy development across the years of primary and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Wang, Hsin-Hui; Hong, Zuway-R; She, Hsiao-Ching; Smith, Thomas J.; Fielding, Jill; Lin, Huann-shyang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: The recommendation from national documents and reports to promote inquiry-related science activities has not been supported by recent studies, which have found the overall frequency of inquiry activities to be negatively associated with student learning outcomes. This study was inspired by such conflicting reports and aimed to clarify…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Epistemology, Beliefs, Literacy
Gutierrez, Amanda; Lowe, Kevin; Guenther, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Improving Indigenous students' literacy is a major priority area for the Australian Government, receiving significant funding to address below benchmark English literacy standardised test results. Despite this, recent benchmark tests suggest Indigenous students continue to achieve well below the national average. This systematic review discusses…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Benchmarking, Literacy Education, Literacy
Pauline Jones; Carlie Plummer; Natasha Isbel – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The paper aims to develop a coherent understanding of literacy assessment, one that draws on current conceptualising of assessment generally while accounting for the complexity of literacy and literacy development. It responds to The Foundation for Learning Literacy Touchstone #8, offering a view of assessment as an "eco-system"…
Descriptors: Literacy, Evaluation, Professional Autonomy, Expertise
Damon P. Thomas; Belinda Hopwood; Vesife Hatisaru; David Hicks – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Developing students' reading and numeracy skills remain key goals of contemporary schooling. In Australia, the National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests have assessed these skills since 2008. Previous research found a significant gender gap in favour of females for the NAPLAN writing test, yet no study has examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
