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Language and Literacy Education

Journal of Research Initiatives

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2022

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Eliminating Book Deserts Through Community Engagement, Tiffany A. Flowers Nov 2022

Eliminating Book Deserts Through Community Engagement, Tiffany A. Flowers

Journal of Research Initiatives

The purpose of this commentary is to discuss equity and advocacy regarding book deserts for children in urban schools. This commentary includes a critical review of the research literature, practical considerations for eliminating book deserts in schools, and developing a long-term community engagement program to resolve book deserts.


Synchronous Distance Language Learning And Critical Visual Literacy Practices In Greek Primary Education, Marianthi Oikonomakou, Emmanouil Sofos, Argyro Kontogianni Aug 2022

Synchronous Distance Language Learning And Critical Visual Literacy Practices In Greek Primary Education, Marianthi Oikonomakou, Emmanouil Sofos, Argyro Kontogianni

Journal of Research Initiatives

Our research, focusing on critical literacy practices in education, demonstrates the outcome of a teaching scenario applied in 2021 in a primary school e-class learning environment with the aid of distant learning tools. Having taken for granted that: (a) covid-19 pandemic has initiated important changes regarding our understanding of language teaching and (b) the extend we expose ourselves to modern multimodal environments, our teaching intervention attempts at displaying how the use of visual grammar can contribute to the critical understanding and production of multimodal texts by junior pupils in the language teaching framework. In the light of the above, through …