JEDIC Vol. 13 Nos. 1&2

ISSN:

1028 2688

Issue Date:

March 2011

Special Issue in Honour of Dr. Jossett Lewis-Smikle: Selected papers from the Literacy Symposium held at the University of the West Indies (Mona), March, 2013.

General Articles

vii-ix

Editorial

Beverley Bryan, Zellynne Jennings

3-18

"And how Are the Children?" Critical Literacy for Liberation

Gloria Swindler Boutte

19-34

Thoughts on Language, Literacy, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Jamaican and US Contexts

Django Paris

35-53

Developing Character Education through Children's Literature and Literature-based Instructional Approaches: Portraits from American and Jamaican Elementary Students

Paula Sunanon-Webster

54-83

A Critical Multicultural Analysis of Jamaican Children’s Literature

Wendy Richards

84-109

A Review of Studies on the Implementation of Literacy 1–2–3 in Jamaican Primary Schools

Zellynne Jennings

110-132

Examining the ‘Discourse’ behind the Grade Four Literacy Test: Evidence from Two Primary Schools in Jamaica

Yewande Lewis-Fokum

133-161

Transitioning from GSAT to CSEC: A Longitudinal Study on the Impact of Literacy Development of Students in Jamaican Primary School on their Performance in CSEC English A

Joan Spencer-Ernandez

Teaching Section

162-176

The Camp Summer Plus Initiative

Maureen Byfield

Book Review

177-179

And Caret Bay Again: New and Selected Poems by Velma Pollard

Anna Kasafi Perkins

180-182

Language, Literacy and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies: The Case of Black Academic Underachievement, by Paul C. Mocombe and Carol Tomlin

Meta E. Bogle

Thesis Abstract

183-184

Creating Authentic Spaces for Literacy Development: A Multimedia Approach for the Secondary School

Florence Gilzene Cheese

185

Poem: "While the Sap Flows"

Velma Pollard

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