Search for dissertations about: "Critical literacy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words Critical literacy.
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1. Literacy and development : A study of Yemissrach Dimts literacy campaign in Ethiopia
Abstract : The problem of illiteracy has been the object of many studies during recent decades. In Ethiopia, a country which reports one of the lowest literacy rates in Africa, the Yemissrach Dimts Literacy Campaign (YDLC) was started in 1962. Its activities were concentrated to rural areas and directed primarily towards adults. READ MORE
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2. Where is the critical in literacy? : Tracing performances of literature reading, readers and non-readers in educational practice
Abstract : In many instances in society, educational and other, literature reading is emphasised as something that develops persons in positive ways. The present thesis explores this claim in relation to literature reading in educational practices. READ MORE
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3. Science, Language, and Literacy : Case Studies of Learning in Swedish University Physics
Abstract : This thesis presents an investigation of undergraduate student learning with respect to physics lectures attended in English and Swedish. The work studies three connected areas: student learning patterns, bilingual scientific literacy and disciplinary discourse. READ MORE
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4. A time and place for everything? : social visualisation tools and critical literacies
Abstract : The aim of this study is to analyse mutual enactments of critical literacies and social visualisation tools as information resources. The central concept of critical literacies as used here extends and redefines prior critical literacy definitions to denote the pluralistic situated enactments of meaning through which study participants identify, question and transform bias, restrictions and power related aspects of access, control and use in relation to the tools. READ MORE
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5. Towards Visual Literacy in School : Interactions between Students and Interactive Visualizations in Social Science Classrooms
Abstract : This compilation thesis explores how the double aspect of visual literacy is enacted in secondary schools’ social science classrooms when interactive data visualizations are employed. The aim is to map what characterizes ‘reading’ interactive data visualizations and ‘writing’ knowledge visualizations, as well as implications for a didactic design supporting students’ visual literacy. READ MORE