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This article examines the writing of three Grade 3 students and discusses how these girls drew upon their symbolic tools, specifically those developed as a result of their experiences with particular kinds of texts. The students were participants in a multifaceted study that explored Grades 3 and 4 students’ understandings of and responses to picturebooks [...]

In this article, I present the description of the learning and social action that unfolded through critical literacy events in my first grade classroom. Resulting from teacher action research, this critical conscientization process underscores how multicultural children’s literature served as enabler of culturally responsive pedagogy. Through the analysis of representative literacy events, I highlight how [...]

From studies of bilingual education practices, some authors have suggested that bilingualism, in a favourable environment, facilitates development of metaphonological abilities. In a monolingual context, these abilities develop in interaction with literacy. The objective of the present study is to determine if bilingual children have some metaphonological knowledge before learning to read. In other terms, [...]

This article investigates the intersection between the in-school information literacy practices and out-of-school (i.e. home and community) information literacy practices of a third grade student and examines how this intersection may be contributing to his overall literacy learning. Data collected from field notes; observations of in-school and out-of-school information literacy practices; video-tapings of the home [...]

Pediatrician Agrees to Stop Practicing After Abuse ChargesDr. Melvin D. Levine, the North Carolina pediatrician who faces a lawsuit accusing him of molesting young boys during physical examinations, has signed a consent order agreeing that he will never again practice medicine in North Carolina or anywhere else. More: continued here

POSITION TITLE: LibrarianCompetition Number: 6137BA PositionType: Tenure TrackDepartment: Library ServicesCompetition Closes: April 3, 2009MRC Library requires a professional librarian effective August 15, 2009 to fill a tenure-track continuing position.Mount Royal Library has a full-time staff of 50, including 13 faculty librarians. The Library provides a technology-rich facility, a leading-edge information literacy program and a full [...]

An item mentioned on Thomas Hapke’s blog recently is a report (in German) from academics at the University of AugsburgHeinze, N., Fink, J., Wolf, S. (2009). Informationskompetenz und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Studienergebnisse und Empfehlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Recherche im Hochschulstudium. Augsburg: Universität Augsburg,Medienpädagogik. (Arbeitsbericht; 21) (Information literacy and academic work: results and attitudes towards research in academic [...]

Secretary Arne Duncan said he wants to “launch a new era of science education in America.” More: continued here

Last week (March 12-14)I attended the meeting of the Physics Teacher Education Coalition in Pittsburgh. 110 people registered from 30 US states and several other countries. It was a very intense program.I gave a poster session “Social Networking for New and Cross-over Physics Teachers”. The poster is based on a talk I gave at the [...]