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In a Research-Writing Frame of Mind
(American Library Association, 2016)
Librarians have been coordinating with composition instructors to offer information literacy instruction in composition classrooms long enough that it can no longer be considered a new trend, but rather a standard feature ...
People with Disabilities and Disasters
(Springer, 2018)
Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
Special education in Costa Rica
(Wiley, 2018-07)
Costa Rica has the strongest public education system in Central America. The 1869 constitution mandated a free, obligatory, and state-supported educational system making Costa Rica one of the first countries in the world ...
Qualitative Content Analysis: A Reflection
(2020-10-13)
Like many public services librarians, we spend much of our time focused on improving service quality. We think of excellent service quality as meeting or exceeding customer expectations consistently over time. One approach ...
Building meaningful cross-sector partnerships for children and media initiatives: A conversation café with scholars and activists from around the world
(Routledge, 2018)
In this essay, we bring together academics and activists from around the world in a “conversation café” to share their perspectives on the past, present, and future of children and media with specific emphasis on building ...
Challenging Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Online Spaces. Alternative Storytelling among Latino/a Youth in the U.S.
(Nordicom Press, 2017)
Media play an important role in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes that harm the self-esteem and self-concept of marginalized youth, especially for Latino/a youth in the US context. However, this article illustrates ...
Civic engagement, social justice, and media literacy
(Routledge, 2020)
Connecting media literacy to the ethical, social, and emancipatory aspects of information
societies within media-saturated convergence culture is an essential task in conceptualizing
active digital citizenship. In this ...
People with disabilities and disasters
(Springer, 2017)
Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
Disaster and social vulnerability: The case of undocumented Mexican migrant workers
(Edwin Mellen, 2010)
The undocumented status of many immigrants disfranchises them from receiving most of the state and federal support offered to other members of their community. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
Communities of Information: Information Literacy and Discourse Community Instruction in First Year Writing Courses
(Purdue University Press, 2018)
The artifacts of discourse (print texts, recordings, Web documents, etc.) are information, and as such fall under the umbrellas of both discourse communities and information literacy. Since the product of a discourse ...