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1	Throwing the book away: incorporating students' out-of-school literacies into a secondary school English classroom Cunningham, Bradley Thomas 30 August 2012 (has links) This thesis explores how the inclusion of students’ out-of-school literacies in a secondary English classroom affects students’ engagement, motivation, and sense of community. A mixed case study and action research approach was used in which the researcher taught a semester long multi-grade senior English class which used hip hop as its core content. Data was collected using audio field notes, focus group, one-on-one interviews, and written communication. Findings revealed that students felt the inclusion of hip hop made this English class more relevant and meaningful to the students and helped to foster a strong sense of community among the class members. This study also found that student-directed curriculum, teacher vulnerability, and the inclusion of community members as mentors were very important to the students’ sense of community. This sense of community, however, did not extend beyond the classroom. / Graduate hip hop multimodal Secondary English community classroom 21st century learning curriculum assessment teacher authority out of school literacies rap
2	Social identities and psycho-social needs in adolescents’ health literate practices Cimon, Mimi 15 December 2009 (has links) Adolescent perspectives on health and the social and literate values of their health related behaviours require exploration and examination in health literacy, as knowledge gaps related to the constituents of health literate practices, and the functions and acquisition of health literacy exist in the literature. Research addressing this was approached based on socio-cultural and socio-ecological principles using a collective instrumental case design. Participants were new adolescent mother aged 15-18 recruited from 4 different community/education programs around Victoria, BC. Data was collected over a four month period, and consisted of individual and focus group interviews, journals, and researchers’ observations and field notes. Findings show that participants’ health behaviours changed significantly in tandem with their identities, the groups they associated with, and the social contexts they moved within. Findings indicate that identity, informal social environments, and unconscious cognitive process and psychosocial needs play a role in adolescents health literacy and literate practices. Health literacy Adolescent health Socio-cultural Socio-ecological Critical literacy Adolescent mothers Adolescent health behaviours literate status empowerment critical media literacy health education problem behaviours transitioning identity social identities out of school literacies unconscious cognitive processes mainstream values multiple literacies health promotion

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Throwing the book away: incorporating students' out-of-school literacies into a secondary school English classroom

Social identities and psycho-social needs in adolescents’ health literate practices