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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 128, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJournal writing on a lovely summer evening in Tokyo--a breeze and a coolness sharpen my outlook. I have always loved summer evenings. I remember sitting on the front porch of my parents' house, writing letters, and...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMany staff and members from the partner organizations the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Science Teachers...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 140, Issue 5060)I once watched a teacher play a word game with a group of six-year-olds. The purpose of the game was to get from "pat" to "tea" by changing a letter at a time. The teacher wrote "pat" at the top of the board and "tea"...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI always felt that I knew Ken Rothwell before he was Ken Rothwell. Let me explain: I knew him before he went to the University of Vermont to become English Chair and settled into the Old Mill; I knew him before the...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 52, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedFor many practicing and preservice teachers, the term content area literacy raises questions about the relevance and applicability of literacy in subject area learning. Often perceived as teacher-directed study skills...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCHECK THE WEBSITE, tell yourself you're looking for someone else or you're looking as a joke. Find yourself. Experience a moment of heart stopping anxiety as you click the link on your name: "self-obsessed" "great...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 145, Issue 6)IN THE FALL OF 1968, more than 50,000 New York City teachers went on strike for a total of 37 days in three separate walkouts that kept more than a million students out of the classroom. They sprang from a controversy...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 45, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of online discussions or electronic forums across the educational spectrum. The broad purposes of such discussions in the area of language arts include the...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction Every teacher must have faced the dilemma at one point or another: what should be my role in the classroom? Should I primarily focus on efficient organization of lessons with a careful selection of...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 65, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedManaging the Institute's booth for the annual NCTE convention in New York City was a wonderful experience that not only promoted general semantics to English teachers, but also reminded me why I am excited to be a part...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The essay addresses the right to education for inmates and the disappearance of postsecondary education from US prisons; prison-university educational partnerships; and the potential of online programmes...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt's nearly impossible to talk about hope today without raising the image of Barack Obama's meteoric rise. Addressing the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then-Senator Obama asked Americans to choose whether to...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThis article is motivated by the challenges faced by the rural Shona learners in their mathematics education. It explores how the rural Shona learners can benefit in their learning of mathematics from approaches that...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the production and consumption of knowledge by way of the organic and/or the traditional intellectual, I examine the de(construction) of Black Studies within the work of critical pedagogy. This piece...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 307, Issue 9380)The funny thing is that I'm not sure I ever knew her Christian name. No doubt she had one, and for no reason at all I think it might have been Jean, but to us she was so much, and so completely, Mrs McLeod that as a boy...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 46, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis quote comes from an interview I conducted with four incoming ninth graders who struggled with reading during middle school. My aim was to get them to talk about what they valued about school--what made them feel...
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From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe National Institute of Science (NIS) was established in Oct. 26, 1943 to promote greater interest in the field of science and develop more responsive modes of science education. Its informal objective, however, was to...
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From:Folklore (Vol. 108) Peer-ReviewedDe La Salle College teacher Sean O Suilleabhain was born on Nov 30, 1903. Suilleabhain became a collector of Irish lore. He also worked with the Honorary Director of the Irish Folklore Commission and produced 'A Handbook...
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From:Hebrew Studies (Vol. 53) Peer-ReviewedEliezer Smoli (1901-1985), a celebrated teacher and one of the founding fathers of Israeli children's literature, offered his young readership the character of the "nature teacher," drawing on the lives of real-life...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAbstract--Second language acquisition studies have been significantly impacting the field of language learning and teaching and constantly informing EFL/ESL teachers with the best practices and implications for their...