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Finding Joy in Communication with Families
No full textFamily engagement is a strong predictor of children’s academic success and communication is a key component of engagement (McWayne et al., 2016). Yet, little research has focused on families’ and schools’ communication practices. This inquiry focused on three K-12 teachers and considers the joyful opportunities afforded in their home-school communication. By engaging in Narrative Inquiry, we unravel the participant teachers’ experiences and preferences in communicating with families through a lens of joy and consider the barriers faced when maintaining joy. Key moments of joy were sparked when providing positive communication, developing systems/strategies for continual communication, and in building relationships
Reframing Education for Multilinguals: Honoring Students’ Linguistic, Literacy, and Cultural Assets
No full textMultilingual students enter classrooms with complex language, literacy, and cultural repertoires. Drawing on these repertoires, they use knowledge, skills, practices, and perspectives that make their language and literacy practices dynamic. This paper, based on a context review of educational policies and practices in the United States, as well as a literature review of transformative pedagogies, asserts the importance for teachers to honor and empower students’ use of dynamic practices to make and share meaning. To this end, and in order to help reframe education for multilinguals, in this paper we provide strategies to help foster students’ multilingualism, multiliteracies, and multiculturalism
Talking it out? Metacognition, teacher talk, and comprehension consequences
No full textThis study examines how the amount of teacher talk supports elementary-aged readers’ use of metacognitive strategies to comprehend text. One fourth-grade teacher’s small group reading sessions (n=5 sessions; 2 with advanced readers, 3 with striving readers) were observed and analyzed for metacognitive reading strategy implementation, some with a think-aloud protocol and some with curriculum materials. Results indicate that more teacher talk during small group lessons led to fewer metacognitive behaviors from striving readers. Small-group lesson talk focused on lower-level questions and problem-solving/support strategies initiated and scaffolded by the teacher, resulting in minimal opportunities for students to independently engage with text
Réflexion autour des pratiques de littératie familiales d’élèves inscrits au programme d’actualisation linguistique en français au sein d’écoles élémentaires de l’Ontario
No full textCet article présente les résultats d’une étude qui avait pour objectif de décrire les pratiques langagières et de littératie familiale de parents d’élèves inscrits au programme d’actualisation linguistique en français au sein d’écoles élémentaires de langue française de l’Ontario. Nous avons reçu les données de 38 familles à l’aide d’un questionnaire qui a été distribué aux parents d’élèves inscrits à ce programme dans trois conseils scolaires francophones des régions d’Ottawa et de Toronto. L’essentiel des pratiques déclarées de littératie familiale était conforme à ce que préconise la recherche dans le domaine. Des pistes de réflexion et d’intervention seront amorcées concernant l’implication des familles dans le développement des pratiques de littératie des élèves inscrits au programme retenu
Joyful Literacy Learning Opportunities for Kindergarten Educators: Using Design-Based Research to Build Collaborative Educator-Research Partnerships
No full textIn this study, Ontario kindergarten educators (n=10) describe their tensions related to approaches for early literacy learning and how enhanced self-efficacy supported their navigation for blending direct and play-based instructional approaches for early literacy instruction. Following design-based research methodology, educators participated in interviews and professional learning conversations to identify their needs for teaching beginning reading. Findings include: 1) collaborating with educators and the researcher/facilitator brought participants joy, 2) changing messages from education leaders created challenges, 3) self-efficacy beliefs increased, 4) educators noticed a change in the types of play opportunities that supported literacy learning. Implications and recommendations are discussed for researchers, educators, and school board leaders
Littératie disciplinaire et lecture responsable : Approche des textes indigènes: Approaching Indigenous Texts
No full textWhile many scholars note the important role disciplinary literacy can play in advancing social justice, much of the current research focuses on how English experts approach canonical texts of Western origin. This article investigates the meaning-making approaches employed by 11 English disciplinarians when approaching texts of Indigenous origin. These scholars participated in semi-structured interviews and participated in a read-aloud. Findings highlight that, in addition to traditional disciplinary practices such as contextualizing, performing definitional work, and drawing upon background knowledge, approaching Indigenous texts requires specific meaning-making practices grounded in Indigenous frameworks and drawing upon specific Indigenous Literary tools. This study hopes to show how disciplinary meaning-making practices, as applied to Indigenous literature, can allow expanded access to these diverse perspectives.Alors que de nombreux chercheurs soulignent le rôle important que la culture disciplinaire peut jouer dans la promotion de la justice sociale, la plupart des recherches actuelles se concentrent sur la manière dont les experts anglais abordent les textes canoniques d\u27origine occidentale. Cet article étudie les approches de construction de sens employées par 11 spécialistes des disciplines anglaises lorsqu\u27ils abordent des textes d\u27origine indigène. Ces universitaires ont participé à des entretiens semi-structurés et à une lecture à haute voix. Les résultats soulignent qu\u27en plus des pratiques disciplinaires traditionnelles telles que la contextualisation, le travail de définition et l\u27utilisation des connaissances de base, l\u27approche des textes indigènes nécessite des pratiques spécifiques de construction de sens fondées sur des cadres indigènes et incluant l\u27utilisation d\u27outils littéraires indigènes spécifiques. Cette étude espère montrer comment les pratiques disciplinaires de construction de sens, appliquées à la littérature indigène, peuvent permettre un accès élargi à ces diverses perspectives
Book Insecurity: More Than Lack of Access
No full textThis study explores the phenomenon of book insecurity, a condition extending beyond lack of access to books, to the emotional and mental state of students\u27 attitudes toward obtaining and owning books. Grounded in Maslow\u27s hierarchy of needs, the study posits that book scarcity intersects with multiple levels of human needs. The study introduces and defines the concept of "book insecurity" as a state where individuals lack access to books and experience anxiety related to book acquisition, retention, or loss. The findings underscore the need for multifaceted interventions to improve book access and foster a culture of reading among low-income students.
Beyond Plot, Character, and Theme:: Literary Discourse and Interpretive Procedures in ELA Education
No full textThis essay explores the relative dominance of plot, character, and theme as core concepts in English Language Arts (ELA) and argues for a renewed focus on literary discourses and the teaching of interpretive procedures. Using Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses as a case study, it illustrates how instructional attention to narrative style, point of view, and form can reveal and nurture the processes of literary meaning making and better align high school ELA with disciplinary practices of reading
Joy Amid Ruin: More-than-human Literacies for Survival
No full textIn this paper, I reflect on the past decade as an educator and graduate student to highlight the joy that accompanied my shifting understanding of literacy. I conducted an autobiographical narrative inquiry and used selections from blog entries and graduate coursework in order to reflect on my “moments of turning”. I begin with a logocentric understanding of literacy as a white settler in two Indigenous communities, but over time embrace a multimodal, embodied, emergent, place-based, and more-than-human conception of literacies within a context of the climate and nature emergency. This conception learns from and with Indigenous ways of knowing rooted in ecology, relationships, and the land. I argue that this understanding of literacies brings joy and opens possibilities in a precarious world
La joie de ralentir et d’apprendre à vivre poétiquement pendant un séjour sabbatique: L’épanouissement à travers la marche, les langues et les histoires
No full textDuring the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) pre-conference in Montreal in 2024, I shared my joyful and transformative experiences visiting in Europe, during a sabbatical year 2022-2023, and how these have contributed to fulfilment and joy in my teaching (and life) as a professor of Minority Language Education (French) in Saskatchewan. During my sabbatical year, I focused on slowing down to live each day open to possibilities. Walking and slowness offered me the chance to learn, reflect and to live in the present moment, thus facilitating a stronger connection to the earth, to myself, and to all my relations, human and more than human (Donald, 2023; Judson, 2019; Springgay & Truman, 2018. I was immersed in diverse “linguistic landscapes” (Araújo e Sá, Carinhos & Melo-Pfeifer, 2022) and communities where I found a sense of community and belonging. While spending a year walking, travelling and reflecting in various locations throughout France and Belgium, and many neighbouring countries, I took time to appreciate beauty in nature and in life and how everything is interconnected on this planet, enabling me to feel a stronger connection to the earth which has inspired me to share these experiences with my students. Through walking and many enriching encounters, taking the time to reflect allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of creative approaches to pedagogy which value the richness of linguistic and cultural diversity. By sharing my experience, I hope to shed light on the value of slowness, and the importance of having an open mind in order to “live poetically” (Leggo, 2005) and fully appreciate the beauty and diversity of this world.Lors du précongrès de l’Association canadienne en langue et littératie (ACCLL) à Montréal en 2024, je partageais mes expériences joyeuses vécues lors de mon séjour en Europe où j’ai passé une année sabbatique de 2022 à 2023. J’ai constaté que ces expériences ont eu un effet transformateur et contribuent toujours à mon épanouissement professionnel (et personnel) en tant que professeure en didactique du français et des arts dans le contexte minoritaire de la Saskatchewan. Pendant mon séjour sabbatique en Europe, j’ai profité de chaque instant, j’ai pris le temps de ralentir la cadence et de vivre pleinement chaque jour en gardant un esprit ouvert à toutes les possibilités. La marche et la lenteur m’ont offert l’occasion d’apprendre, de réfléchir et de vivre l’instant présent et d’être en meilleure relation avec la terre et moi-même, les autres personnes et plus-que-humains (Donald, 2023 ; Judson, 2019 ; Springgay & Truman, 2018). J’étais immergé dans les diverses « paysages linguistiques » (Araújo e Sá, Carinhos & Melo-Pfeifer, 2022), je me suis plongée dans la vie culturelle et artistique des lieux et j’ai trouvé un sens d’appartenance dans ces communautés. Lors de mes promenades dans différentes villes et régions de France, en Belgique et dans les pays limitrophes, j’ai pris le temps d’apprécier la beauté de la nature, la vie et comment tout est interrelié sur la planète et j’ai éprouvé un plus lien fort avec la terre et cela a suscité l’envie de partager ces expériences avec mes étudiants. Mes rencontres enrichissantes et le fait de prendre du temps pour réfléchir m’ont permis d’apprécier et d’apprendre des approches pédagogiques créatives qui valorisent la richesse de la diversité linguistique et culturelle. En partageant mon expérience, j’espère mettre en lumière la valeur de la lenteur, l’apprentissage par la marche et l’importance d’avoir une ouverture d’esprit afin de « vivre poétiquement » (Leggo, 2005) d’être épanouie et d’apprécier la beauté et la diversité de ce monde