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Cooney, Emily – Community Literacy Journal, 2014
In making a case for ecocomposition, Sidney Dobrin has claimed that writing, place, and environment cannot be separated. As Donehower, Hogg, and Schell and Deborah Brandt might argue, literacy cannot be separated from place either. But it might sometimes be separated from environment as an ecosystem that has value distinct from, and without the…
Descriptors: Debate, Stakeholders, Ecology, Environmental Education
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Kuo, Jun-min – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
In order to fill in the research gap related to the theory and practice of critical literacy in Taiwan, this article describes an English Conversation activity offered during the 2005 spring semester at a university in southern Taiwan. The article uses a critical instructional model to analyze students' team dialogues as responses to a…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Critical Reading
Walters, Keith – 1994
Examining two very different contexts, a non-pastoral Quaker meeting and an AIDS hospice, offers insight into the complex nature of writing and literacy in spiritual contexts. Such a program is unapologetically comparative, seeking not the "right" view of spirituality but rather a view of how spirituality is expressed through language.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities
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Fisher, Maisha T. – English Education, 2005
In the two high school writing communities described in this article, literacy is strategic, purposeful, and always linked to meaning. The foundation for literate practices in these communities is Freirian in nature. Teachers, in a very serious way, work to liberate language and prepare students to be in control of words; they do this by allowing…
Descriptors: Poetry, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Discourse Communities