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Cedarville And Beyond: Tech Advancements Take Chapel And The Gospel Worldwide, Andrew Graff
Cedarville And Beyond: Tech Advancements Take Chapel And The Gospel Worldwide, Andrew Graff
English, Literature, and Modern Languages Faculty Publications
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Child Prodigies Exploring The World: How Homeschooled Students Narrate Their Literacy In The Digital Archive Of Literacy Narratives, Alicia A. Mccartney
Child Prodigies Exploring The World: How Homeschooled Students Narrate Their Literacy In The Digital Archive Of Literacy Narratives, Alicia A. Mccartney
English, Literature, and Modern Languages Faculty Publications
Approximately 1.8 million students in the United States are homeschooled, according to 2012 data from the National Center for Education Statistics (Redford et al.). However, researchers have only begun to examine how these homeschooled students reflect on their own literacy development, especially once they have entered college. Using the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN), I gather and analyze eighteen literacy narratives of currently and formerly homeschooled students, exploring how these students reflect on their own developing literacies, especially as they contrast their experiences with those of their traditionally-schooled classmates. The results of this study reveal, first, that these homeschoolers …