Literacy Frame Research Articles

Evaluation of undergraduate research topic skill development

Inspired by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy frame Research as Inquiry, Lehman College Library conducted an assessment to measure its undergraduate students’ ability to formulate research questions that are appropriately scaled, encourage critical inquiry, and can be supported by available information resources. Using a sample of first-year students enrolled in an English composition class, the assessment revealed that students performed best at locating information resources and struggled most with scaling down a topic. Lessons learned from this study can be extrapolated to outside institutions to improve information literacy learning outcomes.

Postdigital Literacies in Everyday Life and Pedagogic Practices

In this article, we contribute to literacy and education studies by proposing three overarching features (elements) of postdigital literacy events, informed by an ecological, relational, and sociomaterial framing of literacy. These features are: (1) entanglement, (2) digital materiality, and (3) spatiotemporality. Entanglement is about how learning entangles with our social, cultural, and material contexts through communicative acts, which include an understanding of media entanglements through interface seams(/seaminess) and transmediality. Digital materiality reminds us that digital media are also material, including notions of digital matter, instantiation, representation, and significance. The feature of spatiotemporality accounts for spatiotemporal flow and presence across online/offline environments, concerned with postdigital reconfigurations of time, space, and place. All three elements incorporate challenges around equity, power, and values. We also advance theory-in-practice by providing examples of how postdigital literacy features/elements manifest in pedagogy and everyday life, based on our experiences as academics working in diverse contexts. This work can support international research, teaching, and knowledge around how media practices interrelate through postdigital communication and literacy experiences, what that means, and with what effects, within a vision of education for mutually enriching planetary futures.

Settler teachers’ engagement with first nations content in the Australian curriculum

ABSTRACT Situated in the curriculum space created by the recent enhancements to First Nations content is the opportunity for teachers to better connect with First Nations perspectives. Using constructivist theory methodology and drawing on two studies, a small qualitative school-based study of teachers who teach in the early years of schooling, and a large-scale study of professional development across two Australian states, the paper explores teachers’ preparedness to teach First Nations content. The tenets of critical literacy frame the discussion and are positioned as reflective tools that can be used to support the ‘settler teacher’ in self-reflection. Audio-recorded transcripts of planning sessions, a teacher survey, comments from feedback forms and researcher memos form the data sets. Findings from the study necessitate discursive practices for the development of teacher knowledge, dispositions, and confidence, and highlight the imperative for teacher critical self-reflection.

SKIN CANCER IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING DEEP LEARNING

Because skin cancer is a frequent and possibly lethal illness, early identification is crucial for surgical treatment. Personal dermatoscopy is crucial in the perception of skin cancer. Recent research on deep literacy techniques has shown astonishing success in automating the segmentation of skin lesions, assisting in the early diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer. This goal provides a summary of improvements in skin cancer image segmentation that are based on deep literacy. The goal of this project is to create a dependable and effective deep literacy frame for segmenting skin lesions from the dermoscopic image collection. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are deep learning models that are incredibly effective at detecting daedal patterns in images, are used in the proposed model. The training data consists of a distinct collection of annotated dermoscopy images that contains nonidentical forms of skin cancer such as carcinoma, rudimentary cell melanoma, and scaled cell melanoma. To precisely describe the size of the skin abnormality, segmentation entails identifying the lesion boundaries. Transfer literacy is practiced, which entails using pre-trained convolutional neural network infrastructures, to improve the model's interpretation. Transfer literacy improves segmentation interpretation by using features discovered from large datasets. Key Words: CNN, Skin cancer, Dermoscopic, Image segmentation, Network

Image Classification by Tensorflow

Abstract: The task of relating what an image represents is called image bracket. An image bracket model is trained to fete colorful classes of images. For illustration, you may train a model to fete prints representing three different types of creatures rabbits, pussycats, and tykes . But in our design we've used the datasets of cotton splint which helps us to find the complaint on the cotton splint as well. Tensorflow is an google open source machine literacy frame for dataflow programming across a range of task. As well as it's a open source library for deep literacy operation. It's firstly developed for large numerical calculation without keeping deep literacy in mind. In the design of image bracket, one model was erected to sort images. By using the model which was erected in the design, filmland can be classified effectively and snappily. At the morning of the design, an applicable data set was chosen. also, the model was created by using TensorFlow. Next, the model would be trained to get the parameters with good fitting. Eventually, in order to estimate the model effectively, several graphs of confirmation delicacy were created. In the process of completing this design, the members of Team have learned the capability to construct convolutional neural network models using python. What’s more, the members of the platoon also develop a good capability of data analysis.

Ko te mana o te tamaiti te aro o tātou mahi: Listening to voices from Tai Tokerau to re-frame literacies

Western literacy theories and models often reflect Eurocentric notions of literacy and literacy practices. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the prevalence of these conceptualisations is linked to issues of power and result in a narrow and inaccurate framing of Māori tamariki (children). In this article Tiritiria, a Māori philosophical view of knowledge, knowledge generation and knowledge exchange is used alongside Webber and Macfarlane’s (2020) Mana Model to challenge this dominant framing of literacy. Using the whakataukī ‘Ko te mana o te tamaiti te aro o tātou mahi', translated literally as ‘Let the mana of the child guide our work’, tamariki Māori are (re)positioned as maurea (treasures) to further support the (re)framing of literacies. In this study we focus on listening to the voices of whānau Māori from Te Tai Tokerau (Northland, New Zealand), including the voices of tūpuna (ancestors). Through a developing understanding of tiritiria and an analysis of data sets from Tai Tokerau a nascent definition of literacies, as multitudinous, practical enactments of tirititia, emerged. Findings indicated that Māori literacy practices (both traditional and contemporary) move beyond subject learning, to incorporate multiple interpersonal, cultural, environmental and textual processes of knowledge transfer which affirm the inherent and inherited mana of tamariki.

Tiritiria: Understanding Māori children as inherently and inherited-ly literate—Towards a conceptual position

Many theories support the idea that children’s literacy learning develops as they learn to make meaning through interactions with others. These assertions are premised on the understanding that childhood literacy serves various social purposes and that these literacies are learned through participating in social contexts. In this position paper, we seek to reframe current, widely accepted understandings and definitions of literacy. We draw upon mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge/wisdom) concepts to illustrate Māori philosophical views about the nature of knowledge production. These concepts clearly delineate the link between knowledge, literacies, and power, a link often actively overlooked by western framing of literacy. We use a Māori whakataukī (proverbial saying) to re-conceptualise current understandings of literacy, positing varied literacies and literacy practices. Within this conceptual framework Māori children are re-positioned as maurea – treasures of the highest order, born of and with mana, an integral part of generations of whakapapa (genealogy), and an essential element in an intricate web linking all things (human and non-human). This paper proposes that children are inherently and inherited-ly literate; they are born literate—inheritors of multiple and cumulative genealogies of multimodal communication and knowledge sharing.

Media, making & movement: Bridging media literacy and racial justice through critical media project

This article offers a theoretically-grounded case study considering the role of Critical Media Project (CMP) as an educational initiative and intervention that sits at the juncture of media literacy and social justice. CMP fills key gaps in media literacy education by using a critical media literacy frame to foster critical consumption, critical creation, and cultural competencies around seven key social identities (race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, socio-economic class, religion, ability and age). In turn, through a media-rich website, curriculum and other programs, CMP helps youth imagine a better future with the requisite tools, resources and power to challenge dominant systems and structures of power.

Better in Pictures

Better in Pictures

“Who made these rules? We’re so confused.”: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Critical Race Media Literacy

In this introductory essay, editors of the special issue on critical race media literacy frame the current global contexts of race, racism, and media in which this issue is situated. Building from the work of authors included in this special issue, this essay calls readers to engage and disrupt racism in popular, educational, and other forms of media, both inside and beyond the classroom.

Early years teachers and digital literacies: Navigating a kaleidoscope of discourses

For many young children in developed countries, family and community life is mediated by digital technology. Despite this, for early years educators, the process of integrating digital technologies into classroom practice raises a number of issues and tensions. In an attempt to gain insights from early years teachers, we draw from semi-structured interview data from ten practising teachers which explored their perspectives on digital technologies within their personal and professional lives, and of children’s use of digital technologies within and outside educational settings. Our analysis builds on previous work that suggests that teachers draw on multiple discourses related to conceptualisations of childhood when thinking about digital technology and young children. In this paper we contribute to these discussions, drawing specifically on examples from the data where teachers articulate their understandings of children’s use of digital technology where this relates directly to children’s literacy practices. We assert that narrow conceptualized notions of literacy, compounded by national imperatives to raise print literacy standards, add another layer of discursive complexity that comes to the fore when teachers are asked to provide a rationale for the promotion of digital literacies in early years classrooms. A broader framing of literacy therefore, is needed if the potential of digital technologies in the early years is to be realized.

The Study of Heritage Language Development From a Bilingualism and Social Justice Perspective

AbstractUsing the lenses of bilingualism and social justice, I reflect on relevant conceptual and methodological issues encountered in the study of the linguistic development of heritage language speakers. Themes examined include the early but varying timing of heritage language learning; the surrounding linguistic environment, including the link between parental input and linguistic outcomes and heritage language speakers’ bilingualism, multilingualism, and multilectalism; the framing of literacy in the minority language; and the unique and language‐shaping experience of minoritization, often an outcome of immigration. I argue that bilingualism is gradient and that better measurement of relevant variables—particularly those related to timing, input/exposure, and literacy—can invigorate the study of heritage language development and make new and more robust insights possible. I propose that heritage speakers and their languages must be understood as connected to minoritized communities and to the experience of inequitable multilingualism.

Construction and Contextualization of Authority in STEM Fields: An Exploratory Paper.

In this paper, we explore how librarians can teach students to deconstruct the concept of authority using questions and considering contextual needs in STEM fields. We argue that examining the complexities of common signifiers of authority, such as peer review, citation rates, and types of sources, as well as exploring contextual factors such as authority in academic and professional settings, are key to developing an understanding of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Frame "Authority is constructed and contextual" in the sciences. For each signifier of authority, we present ways to approach and discuss the question in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conversation as a model to build the relationship among libraries, digital humanities, and campus leadership

ABSTRACTBy committing to two conversation-based concepts, David Lankes's Mission for New Librarians and the “Scholarship as Conversation” Information Literacy Frame, Bethel University's Library has established a leadership role in advocating and implementing digital humanities at a midsized liberal arts institution. Aligning the services and strategy of the Bethel University Digital Library (BUDL), Bethel's institutional repository, with the lessons learned and relationships built through these conversations with administration, faculty, and staff has resulted in successful outcomes for the communication and implementation of innovative digital library and digital humanities initiatives.

Critical health literacy health promotion and people with intellectual disabilities

Health literacy research and scholarship has largely overlooked the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities (ID), though growing concern about the health inequalities they face has increasingly given rise to health promotion interventions for this group. However, these interventions reference a rather limited vision of health literacy and largely fail to offer people with ID opportunities to develop capabilities to interact with health information in a more critical manner or to develop their understandings of how the wider social context impacts on their own experiences of health and health care. In this paper I offer some explanations for why people with ID have been excluded from the critical health literacy field. I suggest ways that a critical health literacy frame can advance understandings of (1) what literacy in general means for people with ID; (2) what it means for them to take part in critical health literacy practices, and (3) the nature of health texts – what they are and what they do for people with ID. I conclude with remarks about what involvement in critical health literacy initiatives might offer people with ID and also what a consideration of the experiences of people with ID can offer critical health literacy theorizing and research.

Literacy events in toddler groups: Preschool educators' talk about their work with literacy among toddlers

The present study originates in an interest in toddlers' spontaneous literacy activities and Swedish preschool practice. The curriculum for Swedish preschool ( National Agency for Education, 2011b ) clearly states that preschools should work on the basis of a holistic view of the child and that activities should be both enjoyable and based on toddlers' experiences, play and desire to learn. Because the curriculum can be interpreted in a number of different ways, it is important to highlight how tasks in preschool, specifically those directed at written language, are realized in practice. Hence, the aim of this article is to explore educators' talk about their work with written language within an early childhood literacy frame. The study is seen from a social constructionist perspective, and the analysis is based on focus group interviews with ten preschool educator teams on two separate occasions for each. Two themes are identified as being clearly displayed in the educators’ talk about toddlers' literacy: The first theme is doing literacy: toddlers' bodily and material manifestations. The second theme covers the educators' educational manner and the educators' construction of literacy: a playful and material approach based on values and traditions. Finally, these themes are discussed in relation to the educators' professional language, concrete and contextual literacy events, material aspects and a view of toddlers as literate persons in their own right. Hence, the study contributes to a wider discussion about toddlers' everyday activities and interest in written language. In addition, the study makes the suggestion that, in order for work with literacy among toddlers to be based on the child, professional language which highlights toddlers' ways of expression from a broad perspective of what it is to be literate, is needed.

Five Decades of ALER Conference Session Presentations, 1960–2010

The purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative content analysis of the conference session programs from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) annual meetings across five decades spanning from 1960 through 2010. The data cycled through an analysis during four separate phases. In total, 4,605 conference sessions were analyzed and then coded into 45 distinct session topics. Four topical frequency levels were constructed across all five decades under review. Additionally, a longitudinal trend analysis was adapted and conducted to review the presence of components within the balanced literacy frame, the five essential components of reading, and the targeted audience for sessions. The most significant finding was the identification of two conference session topics, Literacy and Research Methods, which were both consistently represented across all five decades. A discussion of the emerging topics as well as implications is framed against an historical context.

Exploring the nature and coherence of mathematical work in South African Mathematical Literacy classrooms

In this paper the mathematical working in a series of ‘litter project’ lessons from a South African Mathematical Literacy class is analysed in terms of Kilpatrick, Swafford and Findell's (2001) five strands of mathematical proficiency. The analysis points to evidence of the life skills-oriented Mathematical Literacy frame opening up opportunities for engagement across aspects of all five strands, but shows that the emphases differ from the intra-mathematical emphases within the strands. I argue that this is due to the lack of centrality in the Mathematical Literacy frame of the ‘mathematical terrain’. The shifting of competence to the bridge between mathematics and everyday situations and problems retains mathematical coherence and connectedness. Both of these aspects are grounded in the mathematical tools and thinking that are needed to make sense of the everyday situation, rather than the more intra-mathematical connections and coherence that appear to be in focus within the strands of mathematical proficiency.

A Critical Literacy Frame for UK secondary education contexts

This paper presents a pedagogical, analytical and heuristic tool for the critical analysis of texts, the Critical Literacy Frame, developed through a critical textual and discourse analysis of the genre of broadcast adversarial political interviewing, further informed by questionnaires and interviews with key informants. It is grounded in a social-constructionist orientation to language, and is underpinned theoretically by insights from Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Literacy. The potential for such a frame, in the context of UK secondary education, particularly with reference to A level English Language and Citizenship, is considered and recommendations for pedagogy, curriculum, teacher-education, policy and further complementary research are offered.

Applied linguistics

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