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Reading At Risk, Mark Y. Herring
Reading At Risk, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Reading may be in jeopardy as we advance along the information superhighway. Is literacy to be technology's first roadkill?
Visual Information Literacy Via Visual Means: Three Heuristics, Benjamin R. Harris
Visual Information Literacy Via Visual Means: Three Heuristics, Benjamin R. Harris
Library Faculty Research
To offer definitions and application scenarios for three interdisciplinary heuristics designed to encourage a more holistic view of texts with the objective of raising awareness and enhancing the information literacy of student researchers.
Financial Literacy: A Growing Concern In Modern Society, Sonia Marcolin, Anne Abraham
Financial Literacy: A Growing Concern In Modern Society, Sonia Marcolin, Anne Abraham
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper highlights the ongoing need for financial literacy research in a rapidly changing society with deregulated markets, new financial products, .ready availability of credit and an emphasis on self-reliance. A discussion of the importance of financial literacy for both individuals and the economy is followed by a review of studies conducted in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. The studies are compared and analysed to determine areas of both commonality and inconsistency. As a result of this analysis, the paper presents recurrent themes that could be extended, together with potential new areas for financial literacy research.
Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism And Education, Ed. By Anne Hickling-Hudson, Julie Matthews, And Annette Woods, James C. Carl
Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism And Education, Ed. By Anne Hickling-Hudson, Julie Matthews, And Annette Woods, James C. Carl
Education Faculty Publications
Book review by Jim Carl:
Hickling-Hudson, Anne, Julie Matthews, and Annette Woods, eds. Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education. Brisbane: Post Pressed, 2004.
ISBN 1-876682-56-6
The book grew out of a conference held in August 2001 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. It is composed of a collection of thirteen essays that address postcolonialism in education. The presenters examine the postcolonial in educational structures and practices in Asia, Africa, North America, and Australia, but the colonial legacy remains—the language of the conference is English, the publisher is Australian, and the book is printed in Great Britain.
Overall, this …