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Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)

2005

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Children's Sense Of Place As Literacy Learners In Their Classroom, Pauline J. Harris Jan 2005

Children's Sense Of Place As Literacy Learners In Their Classroom, Pauline J. Harris

Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)

This paper focuses on children's sense of place that they find in their classroom literacy situations This paper presents findings of child interviews and samples of classroom observations from the author's classroom-based research, to explore the pleasures and passions that children bring to or find in their classroom literacy situations and the provocations they encounter there. Children's pleasures, passions and provocations provide a backdrop for exploring and understanding their patterns of participation. This paper examines how particular kinds of classroom situations may help or hinder children's participation and the sense of place that they find as literacy learners at school.


Productive Pedagogies, Literacy And The Development Of Numeracy, Mohan Chinnappan Jan 2005

Productive Pedagogies, Literacy And The Development Of Numeracy, Mohan Chinnappan

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Debates about children’s understanding of mathematics has focused on how children make use of school mathematics in their every day lives. The notion of numeracy has been gaining increasing currency is recent curriculum reforms that support the need for mathematics and mathematics teaching to pay attention to involving children in the learning of mathematics in ways that will make sense to each child. Children’s everyday life abounds with mathematics objects and concepts. An awareness .of the mathematics in the environment is a function of students’ ability to interpret the relevance of both the formal and informal mathematics they have been …