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Research with young children, critical literacy and new technology is limited (Burnett, 2009; Carrington, 2006; Marsh, 2005.) The purpose of this study is to describe the literacies produced in a second grade classroom, through podcasting, where the teacher attempted to frame my teaching from a critical literacy perspective. The study of this classroom reveals the literacies that come within a critical literacy structure for learning as well as those developments that were significant during the classroom's creation of a podcast. Such efforts also reveal the social practices of a teacher and her students as well as the identity and positioning work of selected individuals. A case study approach was used to provide the unique details that describe the classroom experiences of students engaged in such literacy work. The information that this study provides will be useful to researchers and educators as they seek to understand the shifts and possibilities of what critical literacy involves in a second grade classroom. Key findings include changes in the children's literacy learning when engaged in critical literacy and the literacy work that occurs with the use of technology. / Ph. D.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to employ a sociocultural, anti-deficit, and dialogic rural theoretical framework to examine the ways teachers seek to support the lived experiences of rural adolescent students in the secondary English language arts classroom as students make meaning with the content of the curriculum. This study worked with the social constructs of rurality (Azano, 2011; Azano and Biddle, 2019; Corbett, 2007; Gruenewald, 2008), critical literacy (Freire, 1990, 2018; Gee, 1990), and learning-centered pedagogy (Fecho et al., 2021) to develop insights into ways that teachers navigate opportunities and challenges in contemporary rural schools. The study focused on secondary English language arts teachers teaching in rural school districts. The participant selection criteria included being employed fulltime as an English language arts teacher at a secondary rural high school, having taught for at least three years, and identifying as teaching from a learning-centered pedagogical stance. All three participants taught at rural North Carolina high schools. The method used was adapted from the three-phase interview approach (Seidman, 1990), with an intake interview, a midpoint interview, and a final interview. The midpoint interview was adapted to consist of three separate post-classroom observation interviews. The post-classroom observation interviews were preceded each round by a co-planning lesson and a classroom observation. There were three stages of data generation, spanning from February 2021 to May 2021. To learn about participants' experiences supporting rural student voices, triangulation (Guba and Lincoln, 1981) was used through multiple data sources: teacher interviews, collaborative lesson planning, classroom observations, post-observation conferences, field notes, memos, and email correspondences. Thematic analysis (Maxwell, 2013) was used to analyze and code the data. From the data analysis, three understandings were generated about the ways in which rural English language arts teachers support students in the classroom. Participants were (1) supporting student voice through instructional design, (2) attending to biases and seeking to dialogue within the classroom, and (3) utilizing lived experiences and literacies. The implications of the study include that rural students can face stereotypes due to the deficit mindset of rurality (Azano et al., 2021a, 2021b, Azano and Biddle, 2019; Theobald and Wood, 2010) and that the utilization of bringing their lived experiences into the classroom can serve as a means to help them make meaning with the content of the classroom. The English language arts classroom can be a space for students to be supported through the use of a learning-centered stance that seeks to collapse traditional hierarchies in the classroom (Fecho et al., 2021). / Doctor of Philosophy / The purpose of this study was to use a sociocultural, anti-deficit, and dialogic rural theoretical framework to examine ways teachers can draw on the lived experiences of rural adolescent students in secondary English language arts classrooms as students make meaning with curriculum content. This study worked with the social constructs of rurality (Azano, 2011; Azano and Biddle, 2019; Corbett, 2007; Gruenewald, 2008), critical literacy (Freire, 1990, 2018; Gee, 1990), and learning-centered pedagogy (Fecho et al., 2021) to develop insights into ways that teachers navigate opportunities and challenges in contemporary rural schools. Participant criteria included being employed fulltime as an English language arts teacher at a rural secondary school, having taught for at least three years, and The study's three participants were rural North Carolina secondary English language arts teachers. Utilizing an adapted three-phase interview process, the study had three stages for each participant: (1) an intake interview, (2) three rounds per participant of co-planning, classroom observations, and post-observation conferences, and (3) a final interview. Thematic analysis (Maxwell, 2013) was used to analyze and code the data. Understandings were that participants, in their success and challenges of supporting rural student voices (1) supported student voice through instructional design, (2) attended to biases and seeking to dialogue within the classroom, and (3) utilized the lived experiences and literacies.

Voice is an integral part of writing instruction, and over half of state writing assessments include voice on scoring rubrics; yet, there is a dearth of research on voice and writing instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school English classroom but with relatively little known about how these tools can teach voice during writing instruction. This qualitative single-case study examined how a public school, ninth-grade English teacher used new literacies to develop voice in students' writing and participants' perception of these instructional choices. The sample included the teacher and 14 students, and data collection included classroom observations, participant interviews, motivation inventories, reflective logs, state writing scores, students' writing folders, and wiki documents. An iterative process of inductive and deductive analysis led to key findings about instructional planning, purposeful writing assignments, teacher feedback, and participant response. Findings indicate that further attention is needed with respect to text structure development, writing pedagogy, and voice in writing; teachers' response to students' writing in digital environments; and motivation and adolescent writing. / Ph. D.

Thesis advisor: Patrick Proctor / In this dissertation, I discuss how North Korean migrants and their children reflect on their migratory narratives and construct memories and postmemories vis-à-vis their North Korean heritage. The North Korean migration context has primarily centered on women (Sung & Cho, 2018), labeling them as Confucian communist mothers (North Korea), trafficked wives (China), smuggled refugees (Southeast Asian countries), and finally, unsettled settlers (South Korea) across their migration trajectories (Song, 2013). Considering the trafficking of North Korean women to rural Chinese men after crossing the border, and their subsequent experiences of human trafficking, forced marriage, and forced pregnancy (Kim, 2012, 2014, 2020), it is significant to understand how the children who were born to North Korean mothers make sense of their heritage. With this, I foregrounded the intergenerational transmission of family memories as a critical vehicle to examine how bi/multilingual North Korean migrants and their children construct identity and belonging across time and space. I found that the children mobilize multiple linguistic and cultural repertoires to understand varying narratives that run across multiple resources from family, school, and digital platforms to construct a multifaceted understanding of North Korean heritage. I also found that mothers seek a nuanced perspective on migration, challenging the reductionist approach that portrays them solely as impoverished victims by sharing personal and cultural memories in various contexts. By highlighting the evolving culture of memory construction, I argue that North Korean mothers and their children navigate, re-imagine, and re-construct the understanding of ethnic identity through shared narratives and literacy practices, often mediated by digital technology and cultural knowledge. This dissertation contributes to the field by focusing on the dynamic process of intergenerational transmission of memory between North Korean mothers and their children who live across multiple borders. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teaching, Curriculum, and Society.

This thesis considers a theoretical tradition which is concerned with how adult literacies education might not always serve to socialise students into existing society, instead encouraging possibilities for desirable alternatives to it. Without this possibility, adult literacies education might only be understood as a socialising machine that slots students into society as it stands and where the role of research is to describe its operation. My research describes a long-standing refusal by educators, researchers and students to accept this possibility and my thesis continues this tradition. Through the analysis and interplay of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, James Paul Gee, Paulo Freire, Jacques Rancière, I distinguish between empowerment and emancipation in the context of literacies education. I set out the assumptions that Bourdieu and Gee make, how they understand power, identity, discourse and oppression, and what this means for the practice of an empowering adult literacies education. I also present assumptions made by Freire and Rancière, how they understand equality and oppression, and how an emancipatory literacies education might be understood and practiced. In particular, I describe how education for ‘empowerment’ encourages practices underpinned by the assumption that ideological processes prevent students from understanding how oppression is manifested. In contrast, I describe how an emancipatory education implies enacting educational relationships that are not reliant on this assumption, whilst exerting a social response to societal oppression. I make three claims. Firstly, that the idea of an emancipatory literacies education has come to be neglected or conflated with the idea that literacies education might empower, which has come to hold great sway. In so doing, I critique Freire’s work whilst reclaiming it as an emancipatory project. Secondly, that the educational practices associated with adult literacies for empowerment can be understood to encourage the socialisation of students into society as it stands. This emphasises the importance of distinguishing between empowerment and emancipation in the context of adult literacies education. Finally, that emancipation is a notion that must continue to be questioned and explored if educators, students and academics are to take responsibility for the practice of adult literacies education and its consequences. An emancipatory literacies education cannot be reliant upon the assumption that discourse is inherently ideological. Instead, it is predicated upon teachers and students assuming that emancipation is possible and acting on that assumption.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:54:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ZULEICA APARECIDA CABRAL.pdf: 1319067 bytes, checksum: d1b59e294d1e34872997d5b882440f26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper discussed the identity reconfigurations of teachers compared to the processes of integration of digital technologies into their teaching practice research focuses primarily on the practices of digital literacies in school, since one of the related issues concerning the (re) identity configurations in a society with unprecedented technological advances amid a globalized society. These advances and changes directly affect the school and the teaching / learning. For these reasons, this thesis aimed to investigate how digital literacy practices are being viewed and used at school, if they are, from the point of view of teachers in the areas of humanities, exact and biological. The specific objectives was to: a) see how the digital literacy practices are being seen in school, b) describe whether the practices of digital literacies are worked in school by teachers in their classroom practices and to what extent this occurs and c) investigate identity configurations of teachers, effective participants in cyberspace through blogs, as autobiographical writing aimed at critical reflection on own performance. The theoretical part listed for this work was Braga (2005), Freitas (2010);Buzato (2010); Coscarelli (2007), Moran (2007), Hall (2006), Bauman (2005), Giddens (1991, 2002) among others. The research took place in two schools in the interior of Paraná,being a public school and a private school, and research participants are teachers who work at the two schools. The research is predominantly qualitative in view of their instruments and technical procedures employed, and these questionnaires, blogs created by teachers participating in which are found the perceptions of working with digital language classroom, group discussions with participants to debate about the use of digital technologies in teaching practice. Therefore, the research was characterized with mixed method research. It is especially important to note that this research craved contribute to teachers working through the practices of literacies / digital literacies and discussion groups, to reflect on new digital technologies in the classroom and also could adopt them before this virtual universe that gather individuals in a society filled with machines and digital equipment. Furthermore, we sought to achieve results that provide better understandings of the practices of literacies / digital literacies and the need for inclusion in the digital world, as well as issues related to the (re) shaping the identity of teachers in this environment / Neste trabalho,discute-se as reconfigurações identitárias dos professores ante aos processos de inserção de tecnologias digitais na prática docente A pesquisa tem como foco principal as práticas de letramentos digitais na escola, posto que uma das questões correlacionadas diz respeito às (re)configurações identitárias em uma sociedade com avanços tecnológicos sem precedentes em meio a uma sociedade globalizada. Esses avanços e mudanças afetam diretamente a escola e os processos de ensino/aprendizagem. Por essas razões é que a presente dissertação teve como objetivo geral investigar como as práticas de letramento digital estão sendo vistas e utilizadas, se é que estão sendo, em um grupo de escolas do interior do Paraná do ponto de vista dos professores das áreas de ciências humanas, exatas e biológicas. Os objetivos específicos visaram a: a) verificar como as práticas de letramento digital são vistas nessas escolas; b) descrever se as práticas de letramentos digitais são trabalhadas nesses ambientes pelos professores nas suas práticas de sala de aula e em que proporção isso ocorre e c) investigar configurações identitárias dos professores, participantes efetivos, no espaço cibernético por meio de blogs, como escrita autobiográfica visando à reflexão crítica da própria atuação. O referencial teórico utilizado para a elaboração deste trabalho foi Braga (2005); Freitas (2010); Buzato (2010); Coscarelli (2011); Moram (2007); Hall (2006); Bauman (2005); Giddens (1991; 2002) dentre outros. A pesquisa aconteceu em duas escolas,sendo uma escola pública e a outra particular, e os participantes da pesquisa são professores que atuam nessas instituições. A pesquisa é predominantemente qualitativa haja vista os instrumentos utilizados e procedimentos técnicos empregados, os quais são: questionários,blogs criados pelos professores participantes, nos quais são encontradas as percepções do trabalho com linguagem digital em sala de aula, discussões em grupo com os participantes para debate sobre o uso de tecnologias digitais na prática docente. Assim, a metodologia de pesquisa pode ser caracterizada como uma forma mista de investigação. É sobremodo importante assinalar que este estudo almejou contribuir para que professores atuantes, por meio das práticas de letramentos/letramentos digitais e grupos de discussão, pudessem refletir sobre a função de novas tecnologias digitais em sala de aula e também pudessem adotá-las, uma vez que esse universo virtual tem arrebanhado indivíduos em uma sociedade repleta de máquinas e equipamentos digitais. Além disso, pretendeu-se alcançar resultados que proporcionassem melhores e tendimentos acerca das práticas de letramentos/letramentos digitais e a necessidade de inserção no universo digital, bem como questões relacionadas à (re)configuração da identidade dos professores neste ambiente.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-07-03T13:51:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 liviafagundesnevesdorini.pdf: 3524562 bytes, checksum: ec179fc9425ea0cbb5fb82f393fd8c12 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T13:00:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 liviafagundesnevesdorini.pdf: 3524562 bytes, checksum: ec179fc9425ea0cbb5fb82f393fd8c12 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T13:00:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 liviafagundesnevesdorini.pdf: 3524562 bytes, checksum: ec179fc9425ea0cbb5fb82f393fd8c12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-19 / Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de pesquisa acerca das possíveis interfaces entre os letramentos cotidianos e escolares de um grupo de alunos de EJA da Prefeitura Municipal de Juiz de Fora/MG. A fim de cumprir o objetivo principal deste estudo, o qual diz respeito à verificação das relações entre os letramentos desenvolvidos no âmbito escolar e fora de seus domínios, foi necessário, inicialmente, compreender quais eram os eventos de letramento cotidianos (também denominados vernaculares) desse grupo de alunos e quais eram os eventos desenvolvidos durante as aulas de Língua Portuguesa na turma pesquisada, para uma posterior relação entre esses letramentos. Ainda foi preciso analisar as concepções de letramento e de currículo que norteavam as práticas educativas nesse contexto. Ao se refletir sobre as questões curriculares e sobre a materialização dos letramentos nas salas de aula, foi necessário, por fim, discutir o conceito de gênero textual e seus usos no ensino, uma vez que se defendeu que os letramentos podem ser desenvolvidos através desses artefatos e percebeu-se o quanto os currículos fundamentam-se nas teorias sociointeracionistas de linguagem, as quais consideram os gêneros enquanto instrumentos importantes no processo de ensino e aprendizagem de língua. A metodologia adotada neste trabalho foi a pesquisa qualitativa, com a utilização de três instrumentos principais: o questionário, o diário de participante e as entrevistas semiestruturadas (com os 8 alunos participantes e a professora da turma). A base teórica para a pesquisa foram os Novos Estudos do Letramento (STREET, 1984, 1993,1995, 2003, 2012, 2014); a Teoria Pós-Crítica de Currículo (SILVA, 2007; BARCELLOS, 2010; MOREIRA, 2011; MALTA, 2013; OLIVEIRA, 2013), e as Teorias de Gêneros da Escola de Genebra (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ e SCHNEUWLY, 2004) e da Nova-Retórica (BAZERMAN, 2005, 2011). Foram ainda utilizadas contribuições brasileiras no campo dos estudos do letramento, de Kleiman (1995, 2008, 2009, 2016), Soares (1998, 2004, 2010, 2011), Rojo (2008, 2009), dentre outros. As análises dos dados demonstraram que os letramentos vernaculares desses alunos compreendem eventos relativos à esfera familiar, profissional e religiosa e que pouco dizem respeito às esferas culturais e de lazer. Esses letramentos apresentaram relação com as identidades desses sujeitos enquanto alunos adultos e com obrigações familiares, profissionais e religiosas. Os eventos de letramento escolares, por outro lado, foram mapeados através das aulas observadas e pela entrevista com a professora e se traduziram, na maioria das vezes, em práticas de ensino tradicionais e, em diversos momentos, se afinaram com uma concepção de letramento autônomo. A análise das relações entre os letramentos vernaculares e escolares apontou para o fato de ainda haver pouca aproximação entre essas instâncias e para a necessidade de a escola ter um olhar mais cuidadoso com os letramentos locais dos alunos, em especial os de EJA, por serem sujeitos com uma bagagem de vida ampla e com tipos de letramentos mais diversificados, se comparados aos estudantes do ensino regular. A partir de um ensino voltado, inicialmente, para os letramentos cotidianos, enquanto pontos de partida, entende-se que podem ser desenvolvidos e ampliados os letramentos desses alunos, numa perspectiva ideológica, tal como defendida por Street (1984, 1993,1995, 2003, 2012, 2014). Espera-se, com este estudo, contribuir para as discussões no campo dos letramentos e com as pesquisas no contexto da modalidade de educação de jovens e adultos, acreditando-se que ainda há muito que se refletir sobre essas questões, a fim de que o ensino de Língua Portuguesa nesse espaço possa se traduzir em práticas eficazes e que garantam o acesso e a permanência de milhões de indivíduos que ainda não têm direito à leitura e à escrita no Brasil. / This work presents the research results on the possible interfaces between daily and school literacies of an EJA group (Youth and Adult Education) of students from the municipal schools from Juiz de Fora / MG. In order to meet the main objective of this study, which is related to the verification of the relations between the literacies developed in and out of the school, it was necessary, at first, to understand the daily (also called vernacular) literacy events of this group of students and the events developed during the Portuguese classes in the studied group. It was done that aiming at a later relation between these literacies. It was still necessary to analyze the conceptions of literacy and curriculum that guided the educational practices in this context. When reflecting on the curricular issues and on the materialization of the literacies in the classrooms, it was finally necessary to discuss the concept of textual genre and its applications in teaching, since we have argued that the literacies can be developed through these artifacts and we can see how curricula are based on the social interactionist theories of language, which consider the genres as important instruments in the process of teaching and learning the language. The methodology used in this study was the qualitative research of an ethnomethodological nature, with the use of three main instruments: the questionnaire, the participant journal and the semi-structured interviews (with the 8 students who were participating and the teacher of the group). The theoretical basis for the research were the New Literacy Studies (STREET, 1984, 1993, 1995, 2003, 2012, 2014); The Post-Critical Theory of Curriculum (Silva, 2007, Barcellos, 2010, Moreira, 2011, Malta, 2013, Oliveira, 2013), and the Geneva School Theories on Genres (Dolz, Noverraz and Schneuwly, 2004) and the Theory of New Rhetoric (Bazerman, 2005, 2011). Brazilian contributions were also used in the field of literacy studies, by Kleiman (1995, 2008, 2009, 2016), Soares (1998, 2004, 2010, 2011), Rojo (2008, 2009), among others. The data analysis showed that the vernacular literacies of these students comprise events related to the familiar, professional and religious spheres and these literacies do not concern the cultural and leisure spheres. These literacies were related to the identities of these subjects as adult students and with family, professional and religious obligations. The school literacy events, on the other hand, were mapped through the observed classes and the interview with the teacher. They were interpreted, in most cases, as traditional teaching practices and, at different times, were refined with a conception of an autonomous literacy. The analysis of the relations between vernacular and school literacies pointed to the fact that there is still a reduced approximation between these instances and to the need for the school to take a more careful look at the local literacy of its students, especially those of EJA, because they are subjects with broad life experiences and with more diversified literacy levels, when compared to the students of the regular education. From a teaching initially focused on everyday literacies as starting a point, it is understood that the literacy of these students can be developed and expanded, in an ideological perspective, as proposed by Street (1984, 1993, 1995, 2003, 2012, 2014). With this study, it is expected to contribute to the discussions in the field of literacy and research in the context of the modality of Youth and Adult Education. We believe that there is still much to be reflected on these issues, so that the teaching of Portuguese in this space can be translated into effective practices and that assure the access and permanence of millions of individuals who do not have the right to read and write in Brazil.

Sverige har en ambition om att bli bäst i världen på att tillvarata digitaliseringens möjligheter, en central del i detta är att tidigt säkerställa digital kompetens hos unga. Därav att det görs satsningar på att barn ska ha tillgång till digitala verktyg av olika slag i skolmiljö. Av intresse är därmed att erhålla förståelse för hur de använder sig av de tillhandahållna digitala verktygen och vad deras åsikter kring det är, vilket är vad denna studie ämnar undersöka. Datainsamlingen har gjorts i form av fyra observationstillfällen som fördelats på två klasser tillhörande årskurs fyra. Fördelat på dessa skedde ett urplock av sex respondenter som det genomfördes intervjuer med, det användes även av informanter i form av deras klassföreståndare och en lärare/IT-samordnare. I arbetet med att analysera datan gjordes en innehållsanalys i vilken kategorier tillämpbara både för observation och intervju fastställdes. Resultatet visade att digitala verktyg var något som användes i hög grad och att det finns ett spektrum av vilka som förekom. Överlag har det konstaterats att eleverna huvudsakligen ser fördelar med det, men har en medvetenhet om baksidan med detta också. Det framkom bland annat att en vanlig uppgift var att skriva texter, något som uppskattades att göra på datorn då det inte framkallade smärta i handen likt användandet av papper och penna kunde göra. För att kunna dra slutsatser om detta fördes en diskussion kring tidigare forskning i relation till erhållet resultat. / Sweden has an ambition to become the best in the world in making use of the opportunities of digitalization, a central part of this is to ensure early digital competence among young people. Therefore, investments are being made to ensure that children have access to digital tools of various kinds in the school environment. It is therefore of interest to gain an understanding of how they use the digital tools provided and what their opinions are about it, which is what this study intends to investigate. The data collection has been done in the form of four observation sessions which are distributed between two classes belonging to year four. Distributed among these, a selection of six respondents took place with whom interviews were conducted, informants in the form of their class teachers and a teacher/IT coordinator were also interviewed. In the work of analyzing the data, a content analysis was made in which categories applicable to both observations and interviews were established. The result showed that digital tools were something that was used to a high degree and that there is a spectrum of which tools occurred. Overall, it has been found that students mainly see advantages to it, but have an awareness of the downside of this as well. Among other things, it emerged that a common task was to write texts, something that was appreciated to be done on the computer as it did not cause pain in the hand like the use of paper and pencil could. In order to be able to draw conclusions about this, a discussion was held about previous research in relation to the results obtained.

Doctor of Education / Department of Educational Leadership / Trudy Salsberry / Today, students enter school with a variety of knowledge about technology. They are accustomed to using the Internet, cell phones, instant messaging, social networking, but that does not mean they have a deep understanding of the reading skills necessary to be successful at online reading (Leu et al., 2013). Reading on the Internet requires critical literacy skills and requires a different set of reading comprehension skills when compared to traditional print (Coiro & Dobler, 2007; Eaglerton & Dobler, 2007; Henry, 2006; Karchmer-Klein & Shinas, 2012; Leu et al., 2008; Leu et al., 2013). The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the knowledge, dispositions, and actions of principals perceived to be most meaningful by both the principals themselves and the teachers under their supervision in high-poverty schools with classroom teachers integrating new literacies. This study also examined the dimensions of instructional leadership (Hallinger & Murphy, 1985) and how these dimensions intersect with knowledge, dispositions, and actions of principals. Using a qualitative design, specifically a multiple-case study, the researcher interviewed teachers and principals at four, high-poverty elementary schools to gain insight into the principals’ role in the integration of new literacies. This study provides a deeper understanding of the many components involved in the leadership of a high-poverty school with classroom teachers integrating new literacies. The findings of this study include that the principals were literacy leaders. They were knowledgeable about the curriculum; ensured teachers had the appropriate resources to integrate new literacies (Internet, iPads, laptops, and tablets); and had high expectations for teachers in terms of technology integration. The principals created equitable opportunities for all students to participate in the integration of technology and literacy. Finally, the principals in this study created a culture of trust and professional growth for teachers.