(Re)Imagining Multilingual Learners: Using Photo Stories to Honor Students’ Strengths, Interests, and Experiences

The labeling of students has the potential to result in deficit thinking, which can cause classrooms to become sites of limitation instead of places of limitless opportunity for students. This article discusses the literacy strategy of creating photo stories and shares the steps involved in inviting students to create personal photo stories that honor students’ lived experiences. The author shares how these photo stories have the potential to promote critical and productive dialogue among educators and students to help them celebrate the diverse languages, cultures, interests, and life experiences that are present in their classrooms. Keywordslabels, deficit thinking, multilingual learners, photo story

The Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy

This presentation reports on the University of Kent’s Copyright Literacy Strategy. The strategy was published in July 2020to raise awareness of copyright amongst staff and students. Thishelps minimise the risk of copyright infringement, as well aspreventingcopyright being a barrierto innovative teaching and research.This work builds on a multinational research project to assess the copyright literacy of information professionals (Todorova et al, 2017) and further research in the UK to understand copyright literacy within higher education institutions (Morrison & Secker, 2015; Morrison & Secker 2017; Morrison, 2018). The research has found that copyright isa source of anxiety for library staff who are often expected to have a high level of knowledge of copyright issues. This proves challenging when addressing university staff and student activity,and there is a need for nuanced conversations about application of copyright exceptions and risk managed approaches(IFLA, 2018).Copyright has also been identified as a key issue at the intersection between information literacy and scholarly communication (ACRL, 2013). This is particularly relevant when advocating for open science and open scholarshipsuch as identifying and using Creative Commons licensed content.The University of Kent copyright literacy strategysetsout a vision for raising awareness of copyright issues(University of Kent, 2020). It was developed in collaboration between academic, library and other professional services staffand is intended to encourage its staff and students to take a critical yet responsible approach to managing use of copyright material. This presentation will explain the methodology used to consult with relevant stakeholders and address the tensions between differentelements of the University. It will outline the key principles and values behind the strategy and report on practical benefits of adopting a strategic approach to copyright literacy.

Critical Literacy Strategy and Challenges: Voice from a High School EFL Teacher

This qualitative case study is proposed to investigate the implementation of critical literacy strategy in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom by one English teacher from one of the public senior high school in Indonesia. The qualitative analysis of the data collected from classroom observation and interview show that the teacher implements the five-steps instructional framework of critical literacy. In the implementation stage, the teacher conducted the framework's whole steps and emphasized the group discussion session where the students could be free to state their opinion. Although the material was taken from the textbook, the teacher could combine her teaching between the book and critical literacy teaching. She provoked her students by posing essential questions and helped students to read and think beyond the text. She also tried to develop her students' social awareness, tolerance, and responsibility through the discussion they shared. However, the teacher encountered some challenges in implementing critical literacy, such as the lack of students' language proficiency, classroom practice transformation, and the lack of teaching resources and facilities.

Adoption of Digital Literacy Strategy on Academic Progress of Private University Education in Kenya: A Survey of Umma University, Garissa Campus

The global higher education landscape has dramatically changed over the last couple of months as a result of the spread of coronavirus. The motion of learners and teachers has been reduced drastically due to the outspread the pandemic. In Kenya, the close up of universities by the government to prevent the spread of this disease has been a big blow to education sector. Resultantly, the government encouraged university managements to embrace digital literacy strategy through virtual academic platforms. The success of this strategy has not been uniform to all universities in Kenya. Academic programs in most universities have stagnated following the close up. This study was purposely conducted to assess the adoption of COVID-19 digital literacy strategy on academic progress of private university education in Kenya. The objective of this study was to find out the effects of e-learning mode of delivery on academic progress of private university education in Kenya. This research utilized a descriptive research design to collect data in order to test the research questions and hypothesis about the relationship between the study variables. The target population of the study comprised all 207 students in Umma University in Garissa Campus. A sample size of 137 respondents was then chosen using systematic sampling. Primary data was collected by use of structured self-administered questionnaires phrased on a 5 likert scale. Data collected was analyzed according to the objectives of the study. SPSS version 24 was used to conduct both descriptive and inferential statistics analysis. Analysis of Variance and Linear Regression analysis were conducted to establish the correlation between the study’s variables. The hypothesis of this study was tested at a confidence level of 0.05. The study established a positive significant relationship between e-learning and academic progress of university education. The findings of this study will guide management of universities to formulate strategies that would strengthen virtual learning in all centers of higher learning. The study recommends adoption of digital literacy programs by all universities in order to ensure continuity of learning with or without a pandemic in the country.

Financial literacy and financial strategies: The mediating role of financial concerns

This article analyses how the financial literacy of elderly people affects their decisions on the adoption of various financial strategies. Multiple mediator models with bootstrap techniques are used to identify the mediating mechanisms of financial concerns that transmit the effects of financial literacy onto specific financial strategies. We find (1) financial concerns mediate the majority of financial literacy-strategy nexuses; specifically, financially illiterate people are more likely to have financial concerns and are more likely to cut back on spending, seek job opportunities, increase debts and downsize or sell their residence as a result; (2) financially literate people are more likely to seek professional financial advice, purchase a life annuity, contribute more to superannuation and invest more conservatively, regardless of their concerns. Our findings suggest professional advisors and robo-advisor developers take into account financial concerns when recommending advice. JEL Classification: D14, J14, J26, I31, G11

Peran Pegadaian Syariah dalam Literasi Keuangan Syariah

This study aims to determine the implementation of the Indonesian National Financial Literacy Strategy (SNLKI) in the sharia pawnshop sector in Yogyakarta. The data collection technique in this study is a structured interview method that is asking q5uestions that have been prepared to the respondent, which is then recorded by the researcher. The answers to the interview questions are then called primary research data. The population of this study is all branches of sharia pawning in Yogyakarta and researchers took samples with Probability Sampling because each element of the population is homogeneous, which has the same opportunity to be chosen as the subject. The results of this study are that all sharia pawnshop unit offices have implemented programs to improve financial literacy but have not been optimal in understanding specifically the SNLKI issued by the government due to the lack of training from the center regarding the core action of SNLKI.

Sex and Spectacle in Seventeen Magazine: A Feminist Myth Analysis

This paper interrogates the semiotic processes by which semiological codes operate to construct female sexuality in a top-circulating fashion and beauty magazine targeted to adolescents. While a number of studies have found the representations of femininity and sexuality in teen media to be restrictive, unrealistic and conservative, this paper fills a gap in the literature by presenting a close analysis of the strategies by which sexuality is constructed. Given that there is a documented difference between the real-world exigencies of girls’ sexual lives and the representation of sexuality in teen media, this paper uses Barthes’ concept of myth and Debord’s understanding of spectacle to frame media rhetorics of sexuality. For Barthes, a myth is a rhetorical figure that supports ideological social beliefs; for Debord, the spectacle is a system of capitalism that manifests itself via mediated images. On the basis of these ideas, the paper claims the semiological method of myth analysis as a feminist practice. Using myth analysis, patterns of representation of adolescent female sexuality in the 2006 issues of Seventeen magazine were analyzed. The analysis uncovered four overarching myths of girls’ sexuality in the magazine: the myth of sexuality as a function of body hierarchies, the myth of sexuality as spectacle, the myth of sexuality as a heterosexual male domain, and the myth of girls as sexual victims. The paper calls for myth analysis as a media literacy strategy that offers feminist emancipatory potential.

Creating a copyright literacy strategy

This presentation reports on the University of Kent’s development of a copyright literacy strategy. This has been developed to raise awareness of copyright amongst staff and students in order to minimise the risk of copyright infringement, as well as prevent copyright being a barrier to innovative teaching and research. This work builds on a multinational research project to assess the copyright literacy of information professionals (Todorova et al, 2017) and further research in the UK to understand copyright literacy within higher education institutions (Morrison & Secker, 2015; Morrison & Secker 2017; Morrison, 2018). The research has found that copyright is a source of anxiety for library staff who are often expected to have a high level of knowledge of copyright issues. This proves challenging when copyright presents a barrier to teaching and research, and there is a need for nuanced conversations about application of copyright exceptions and risk managed approaches (IFLA, 2018). Copyright has also been identified as a key issue at the intersection between information literacy and scholarly communication (ACRL, 2013). This is particularly relevant when advocating for open science and open scholarship such as identifying and using Creative Commons licensed content. The University of Kent copyright literacy strategy will set out a vision for raising awareness of copyright issues (University of Kent, 2019). It is being developed in collaboration between academic, library and other professional services staff and is intended to encourage its staff and students to take a critical yet responsible approach to managing use of copyright material. This presentation will explain the methodology used to consult with relevant stakeholders and address the tensions between different elements of the University. It will outline the key principles and values behind the strategy and report on practical benefits of adopting a strategic approach to copyright literacy.

Analysis of Financial Literacy Target Groups Based on the Financial Literacy Strategy of the Russian Federation

The relevance of this issue has been raised due to the demand for a forecast of the needs of the financial and economic segment of the market in the content and models of financial literacy in the process of achieving the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024. The article presents an analysis of current issues of improving financial literacy, provides a detailed description of the main target groups on the basis of the Strategy for Improving Financial Literacy in the Russian Federation for the period 2017—2023, and presents the results pilot studies of a condition of financial literacy, financial competent behavior of the population and determining from factors on the example of one of the main target groups — school students.The authors declare no conflict of interest.