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The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in Sou…
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of th…
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- 9780801452024
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- XX, 250 p.
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- Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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- 379.24095482 COD l
Learning Spaces : Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia
“This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology…The young people who move through these pages are motivated and proud of having had the opportunities that make possible their linking together of historical knowledge and contemporary means of com…
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- 9781922144089
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- XI, 123 p.
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- 371.26 KRA l
Literacy skills as local intangible capital : the history of a rural lending …
"This book studies the ”grey area” of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people’s libraries in one area of Central Finland. The study explores the influence of social, cultural, geographical and economic phenomena, such as the spread of revivalist movements, on the reading habits of the local population and reveals interesting re…
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- 9789522227966
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- 364p. : ill.
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- 020 KOT l
Libraries driving access to knowledge
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss…
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- 9783110263121
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- 402p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- IFLA publications, 151
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- 021.2 LAU l
International handbook of health literacy : research, practice and policy acr…
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promo…
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- 9781447344537
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- xxiv, 740p. : ill.
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- 610 INT i
Teenagers, literacy and school : researching in multilingual contexts
This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in the home, arguing that problems are inevitable where class and cultural differences exist. Emerging…
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- 9780203015438
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- xvi, 246p. : ill.
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- 428.00712 CRU t
Collaboration in Designing a Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy
This Open Access book combines expertise in information literacy with expertise in education and teaching to share tips and tricks for the development of good information literacy teaching and training in universities and libraries. It draws on research, knowledge and pedagogical practice from academia, to teach students how to sift through information to be able to distinguish the important an…
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- 9783030342586
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- xi, 161p.: ill.
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- 028.7071 lan c
Gender differences in computer and information literacy : an in-depth analysi…
This open access book presents a systematic investigation into internationally comparable data gathered in ICILS 2013. It identifies differences in female and male students’ use of, perceptions about, and proficiency in using computer technologies. Teachers’ use of computers, and their perceptions regarding the benefits of computer use in education, are also analyzed by gender. When compute…
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- 9783030262037
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- xi, 73p. : ill.
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- 370.81 GEB g
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