Th is paper introduces new ways of thinking about diversity in higher education. Th e ‘defi cit-discourse shift’ challenges the defi cit approaches that perceive the increasing diversity of the student body as a problem, or defi cit. Th e shift conceptualises the university as a culture encompassing a multiplicity of sub-cultures, each with its own discourse or literacy. Students’ transition to...

Purpose: The role off data literacy is discussed in the light of such activities as data a quality, data management, data curation, and data citation. The differing terms and its relationship to the most important literacies are examined. Approach: By stressing the importance of data literacy in fulfilling the mission of the contemporary academic library, the article takes an interdisciplinary ...

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (henceforth, S&H) offers readers detailed narratives, which authors Selfe and Hawisher call "technological literacy autobiographies" (S&H, p. 7), on the development of technological literacy practices and values by twenty individuals. The goal of the volume is to examine how factors such as age, gender, ethnic ...

This paper explores GCSE English re-sits in post-16 education. The re-sit policy was introduced England and Wales to improve national literacy rates, yet persistently poor pass rates have drawn robust criticism of the policy. article argues that traditional discourses predominate contribute towards antagonisms between students subject English. high-stakes nature qualification associated perform...

Research has shown that supporting tinkering and exploration promotes a wide range of STEM related literacies. However, the open-endedness of tinkering environments makes it difficult to know whether learners’ exploration is productive or not. This is especially true in museum spaces, where dwell times are short and facilitators lack a history of engagement with individual visitors. In response...

Nipsey Hussle is a post hip hop icon. In this essay, we mine popular music and media coverage of to describe his artistry advocacy anchored by articulation an African American diasporic identity, ambivalence as independent rapper within mainstream industry, leverage Black capital in Crenshaw community. We address these relationships--identity, community--to situate literacies. By recalling rela...