Browsing Jones, Shelley by Author "Jones, Shelley"
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Authenticity and Children’s Engagement with Writing
(Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, 2015)Authentic literacy activities engage children with meaningful reading and writing (Duke, Purcell-Gates, Hall, & Tower, 2006), but little investigation has been conducted into the relationship of the kinds of writing children ... -
The community library as site of education and empowerment for women: Insights from rural Uganda
(Libri, 2009)Community libraries in developing countries can be important sites of knowledge exchange and acquisition for women with little or no formal education living in communities characterized by extreme poverty and gender ... -
Drawing gender equality: A participatory action research project with educators in northern Uganda
(Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2019)This paper reports upon an arts-based participatory action research project conducted with a cohort of 30 teachers in rural Northwest Uganda during a one-week professional development course. Multimodality (Kress & Jewitt, ... -
Educators’ explorations with gender performativities and orientations: A participatory action research project in West Nile sub-region, Uganda
(Language and Literacy, 2019)This paper discusses findings from a feminist participatory action research study conducted in the West Nile region of Northern Uganda with a group of 35 educators who attended a one-week intensive professional development ... -
Girls' Visual Representations of Literacy in a Rural Ugandan Community
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 2008)This Ugandan-based study examined how visual modes of communication provide insights into girls' perceptions of literacy, and open broader dialogues on literacy, women, and development. Twenty-nine primary school girls ... -
Spinning the Globe : How Children Touch the World
(Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry, Faculty in Education, University of British Columbia, 2003)
