Critical literacy is an important and highly relevant concept to hospital and health sciences librarians: the theory reflects the value our profession gives to informed, contex-tual, critical readings of the research literature; the importance of context in evidence-based practice ; and the inclusion and consideration of the patient's and family's social or cultural needs, values, and preferenc...

abstract reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend english texts effectively. the present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for iranian tefl postgraduate students. the motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for m.a and ph.d. pr...

This article explains how teams of special educators, science teachers, literacy consultants, and administrators can use the Disciplinary Literacy Observation Tool (DLOT) accompanying planning tool to improve disciplinary instruction in inclusive secondary classrooms. The DLOT was developed partnership with practitioners as a for professional development coaching. First, tool's five dimensions ...

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PURPOSE To explore the strategies used by older people living in Ireland to obtain information about community health and social services. METHODS A qualitative exploratory design was used. Focus groups (n = 3) were conducted with community dwelling older people (n = 17). A series of vignettes were used to guide discussion regarding hypothetical situations that approximated real-life scenario...

Fuelled by the Arab spring, the question of how the rise of internet-mediated communication affects authoritarian regimes has received unprecedented attention within the discipline of communications. However, in this debate, scholars have not yet turned to the concept of literacy and addressed the role of citizens’ knowledge about political media in any greater depth. This is surprising since t...