Critical Civic Literacy: Knowledge at the Intersection of Career and Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth S. Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
Civic Literacy

Is Civic Literacy a 'Wicked Problem'?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Suess Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Civic Literacy

Book Review: Promoting Community Renewal through Civic Literacy and Service Learning

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Persons ◽  
David Lisman
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Community Renewal ◽  
Academic Instruction ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Civic Literacy

This is an optimistic, and useful, book written at a pessimistic time. In an era when the nation faces many social problems - including alienation from the government and work, the fragmentation of the family, and an expanding materialism - this book promoting civic literacy approaches to service learning and seeks to help educators in their efforts to redefine the role of civics in contemporary society. The civic literacy approach to service learning is defined as pedagogy that combines community service and academic instruction and that focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsiblity. The editors challenge community colleges to act as catalysts for a national movement of community renewal, suggesting that they may be our best hope for finding ways to solve our social problems.

The Influence of the Research-based Monograph Book to Improve Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-302
Author(s):  
S. D. Suryani ◽  
M. Amin ◽  
F. Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

This study intends to analyze the influence of the research-based monograph book as a learning resource to improve pre-service teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior towards the environment. This study is a quasi-experimental study using the Nonequivalent Control Group design. The research sample is 67 pre-service biology teachers using Cluster Sampling. Data were collected using environmental literacy instruments and analyzed descriptively and using the ANCOVA test. The results of the ANCOVA test showed that there was a significant effect on the use of the monograph book on environmental literacy. Knowledge domain obtained 0.047, attitude domain 0.186, and behavioral field 0.986 This research concludes that using the monograph book in learning affects aspects of ecological and environmental knowledge. Nevertheless, it has not had a significant effect on parts of attitude and behavior.

The relationship between health literacy and self-care in patients with heart failure

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Katie Nesbitt ◽  
Huiyun Du ◽  
Paul Nolan ◽  
Susie Cartledge ◽  
Parichat Wonggom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Patient Group ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Randomised Control Trial ◽  
Adequate Health Literacy ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure ◽  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Background/Aims Research has shown that health literacy can influence an individual's ability to practise self-care, particularly for patients with heart failure. This study aimed to assess health literacy and its relationship with heart failure knowledge and self-care practices in this patient group. Methods An observational sub-study was conducted with the data from a large randomised control trial that evaluated the relationship between patients' health literacy, general literacy, knowledge of heart failure and self-care. Results A total of 36 participants were recruited, of which 33 (89.9%) had adequate levels of health literacy. Health literacy was positively associated with heart failure knowledge. However, 67.7% of participants with adequate health literacy were found to have inadequate levels of self-care management. Conclusions Health literacy may facilitate better heart failure knowledge, but it does not necessarily lead to improved self-care management in patients with heart failure. This suggest that clinicians need to put more emphasis on translating knowledge into behavioural changes for self-care in this patient group.

Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Perception in 4-Year-Old Children With Delayed Expressive Phonology Skills

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Rvachew ◽  
Alyssa Ohberg ◽  
Meghann Grawburg ◽  
Joan Heyding
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Awareness ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Emergent Literacy ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary Skills ◽  
Literacy Knowledge ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Expressive Phonology

The purpose of this study was to compare the phonological awareness abilities of 2 groups of 4-year-old children: one with normally developing speech and language skills and the other with moderately or severely delayed expressive phonological skills but age-appropriate receptive vocabulary skills. Each group received tests of articulation, receptive vocabulary, phonemic perception, early literacy, and phonological awareness skills. The groups were matched for receptive language skills, age, socioeconomic status, and emergent literacy knowledge. The children with expressive phonological delays demonstrated significantly poorer phonemic perception and phonological awareness skills than their normally developing peers. The results suggest that preschool children with delayed expressive phonological abilities should be screened for their phonological awareness skills even when their language skills are otherwise normally developing.

scholarly journals Emotions, speech, and the art of politics in fifteenth-century York: House Books, mystery plays and Richard duke of Gloucester

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH REES JONES
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Mystery Plays ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Civic Literacy ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:The York House Books provide much-cited evidence of Richard III's relationship with the City of York in 1485, yet the nature and purpose of the House Books has never been satisfactorily explored. Through a focus on the records of a single year (1476–77), this article places their development within the context of new forms of civic bureaucracy in England and France in which the recording of emotions and speech had particular rhetorical and political significance in the reign of Edward IV. This expanding culture of civic literacy led not only to the creation of fuller records of civic politics and events (including the surviving texts of the Corpus Christi drama), but also enabled new forms of political activity.

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