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Since the inception of new, rigorous standards in reading instruction across the nation, literacy pedagogy has become a focus of renewed interest. The use of newspapers as a supplementary, expository text must be examined in terms of new standards and trends in newspaper readership. This study found that teachers would like more information on Newspapers in Education (NIE) and have interest in their use, but somewhat unsure of how to use them to achieve the curricular goals. Teachers tend to rely on materials provided by the school where they teach. Purpose of the Study: This study was designed to explore the reading practices and attitudes of classroom teachers related to the use of "Newspaper in Education." Research Question Addressed: Since the inception of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), pedagogy of literacy has become a focus of renewed interest. Optimistically, teachers persist in the use effective practices gleaned over time, such as Newspapers in Education, to achieve the curricular goals outlined in the new Standards. This study sought to find: Are teachers familiar with using Newspapers in Education as a supplement to the reading program to meet required standards? Are teachers aware of effective, research-based strategies to use NIE? Are teachers willing to use this type of supplementary nonfiction text in their literacy curriculum? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In many countries stakeholders take initiatives to stimulate students' media literacy, such as (free) distribution of newspapers to teachers, the so-called Newspapers in Education (NiE) programmes. The aim of these initiatives is to promote reading, stimulate interactive ways of teaching and create a generation of critical thinkers and informed citizens. The success and effectiveness of initiatives of this kind depend on how teachers use newspapers as teaching tools in class. In this study we examine the use of a local NiE programme and shed light on its determining factors. 454 Flemish teachers (Belgium) in primary and secondary education and 219 student teachers (Bachelors and Masters) participated in the study, which followed a mixed-methods approach. The results show that if newspapers are (freely) distributed, teachers use them as teaching tools quite intensively as teaching tools. One of the most determining factors is the extent to which teachers use media themselves and work on media creation in their classrooms. This finding indicates that school board members, pedagogical counsellors and teacher educators can support and stimulate NiE programmes by paying explicit attention to these elements, e.g., during pre- and in-service training as well as by focusing on the development of media literacy competencies of teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Newspapers help teachers to connect their classes with the real world. Their role in education is widely researched, but the use of historical newspapers has attracted little attention. Using social practice theory, this article examines the practices they enable, and how such practices relate to the skills and knowledge upper-secondary students are expected to acquire in school. These questions are pertinent today, as the digitization of newspaper heritage is generalizing access to materials traditionally considered for scholarly research. My approach is ethnographic, involving in-depth interviews, focus-group discussion, and participant observation. The teachers’ accounts motivated me to consider the tradition of using newspapers in school. The class projects demonstrated that historical newspapers reflect attributes that make present-day newspapers popular. Closer examination of students’ work demonstrated that the digital library that houses historical newspapers facilitated and constrained the students’ freedom and capacity to go deep when conducting research. The main finding is that historical documents can support the students’ digital skills. By considering digitization and preservation processes of media heritage, the scope of media education can be widened from its focus on production and consumption. In practice, a better understanding of these materials, will help educators give adequate guidelines to their students.

The purpose of this study was to explore the learning performance of sixth grade elementary school students using newspapers in science teaching. A quasi-experimental design with a single group was used in this study. Thirty-three sixth grade elementary school students participated in this study. The research instruments consisted of three questionnaires, a “Learning Attitude toward Newspapers in Education Scale” (29 items, Cronbach’s α = .90), a “Science Reading Attitude Scale” (15 items, Cronbach’s α = .93), and an “Attitude toward Science Scale” (27 items, Cronbach’s α = .92). All three questionnaires have good reliabilities. Furthermore, the validity of these questionnaires has been confirmed by three science educators. The results showed that the use of newspapers in education and multiple instructional strategies can (1) effectively enhance the sixth graders’ learning attitudes towards the use of newspapers in science education and enhance their reading of science articles and involvement in science experiments; (2) effectively promote the sixth graders’ attitudes toward science reading and enhance their science reading understanding; and (3) enhance the sixth graders’ performance in scientific attitudes and significantly strengthen their science learning and interest. The research results showed that the use of newspapers in science teaching effectively enhances the science learning performance of the sixth grade students.

NIE (newspaper in education), which is the study utilizing newspaper-based educational resources in the classroom, has been pursued for a long time. Traditional NIE allows only one-way interaction and available media are limited. In addition, it has difficulty in capturing the latest “hot” issues or recognizing public opinions. In this paper, we propose a platform called TNIE (Twitter news in education) that utilizes Twitter in NIE. TNIE has many advantages compared to traditional NIE: (1) it classifies the latest news into various topics, (2) the classified news content can be browsed effectively via a hierarchical visualization scheme, and (3) effective discussion or debate groups can be easily formed based on the learners’ news selection. To evaluate the performance of our scheme, we implemented a prototype system and performed several experiments. According to the results, our news classification scheme achieved an 87.8 % F-measure on average, which is superior to the 78.94 % of previous studies. We also had volunteers use our prototype system and evaluate its main functions, e.g., news visualization, classification, learner clustering, and collaborative learning. We report some of these evaluation results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Newspapers are one of the best available exhaustive source for practicing English language. English enjoys the status of ex-officio language of the country. It is taught as a third language in schools and as a second language at college level. The highest number of newspapers is published in English language throughout the country. Keeping this in mind we cannot ignore that majority of learners are exposed to English language not through television or movies but through newspapers. Reading newspapers is seemingly an intellectual habit. Newspapers have wider reach and acceptance. In such a scenario it is but natural that newspapers sooner or later find their way into the language classrooms. Language teachers traditionally depend on the prescribed course books to teach English. These course books provide detailed explanations for every aspect of language and expect the learners to grasp everything. However research in pedagogy has proved that language learning is better facilitated in environs where language interaction is natural. Newspapers can fulfill the role of environ where language occurs naturally because the language is authentic. Young adult learners of language easily connect with newspapers than a technical English text. Newspapers are linguistically rich and varied. An ESL classroom that focuses on functional English can make effective use of newspapers. Newspapers can be used to enhance the skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking and vocabulary building. The best feature about making newspapers a guide in language class is that it is relatable to slower learners as well as advanced learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the images, metaphors and narratives in the media coverage of doping in the United States. It presents a case study with a focus on Marion Jones, the most celebrated track athlete of the turn of the millennium, and her husband, C.J. Hunter, a shot put world champion convicted of doping. The material consists of sport reports about the 2000 Olympic Games in three American newspapers. These Games proved controversial due to the allegations and inquiries of the media (both national and international) regarding doping issues and the prominence of the American athletes under suspicion. At the same time, the 2000 Olympics can be considered a watershed in American anti-doping policy. The media portrayed Jones and Hunter as the Beauty and the Beast or Svengali and his victim, using a famous fairy tale and a well-known novel to capture attention, label the protagonists and convey their interpretation of the story as well as their anti-doping messages. Their narratives focused on a relationship that also addressed questions about power as well as about gender and race. Beast was a synonym for Hunter, but it could also be used as a metaphor for doping that was framed exclusively in a moral discourse and regarded as a disgrace, a scandal and a contagious individual failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of the newspaper as an information and reference resources in teaching English writing skills to senior secondary students in India. The newspaper is considered as an ideal teaching aid because of several factors including its rich linguistic content, clear print resource, accessibility and the inclusion of updated information. The integration of the advertisements, letters to the editor and reports sections of the newspaper into the curricula is mentioned.

The article discusses the structuring of a college-level U.S. history course through the paradigm of a newspaper. The author describes how she conducts the survey course "United States Since 1877" at Purdue University, where issues of national, local, and social significance are examined in a balanced manner. Comments are given advocating the teaching of broader socio-cultural aspects of major historical periods and events. The benefits and challenges of the newspaper-themed curriculum are then reviewed in turn. Conclusions are also offered regarding potential ways to expand the curriculum method.

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The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of fourth grade Social Studies students, that are taught with the usage of newspaper, about using newspaper in education. To solve the research problem; semktructured interview forms for taking opinions of students after education were used. As a result of the study, the opinions of group on using newspaper in Social Studies are mainly positive. All students interviewed indicated that using newspaper in the course improved their reading and reading comprehension skills All students interviewed indicated that using newspaper made them enjoy the lesson and nearly all students interviewed indicated that they did not have difficulty in using newspaper in lessons and that newspapers could be used in all lesson [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper brings together science communicated in newspapers in Portugal by looking at how news on natural events were communicated in two different newspapers-the capital newspaper Diário de Notícias ( Daily News) and the Diário dos Açores ( Azores Daily). In particular, we look at how the 1900 solar eclipse, a hot topic throughout Europe, was reported by the capital newspaper, and how news on seismology were conveyed in the period 1907-1910 in the newspaper published in Azores, an archipelago with a significant seismic and volcanic activity. We argue that the importance conceded to these scientific news was related to their overwhelming features, that their dissimilar presentation stemmed from their local relevance allied to their different nature, predictable in the case of eclipses, and unpredictable in the case of earthquakes, and that behind these two instances of science journalism laid an attempt by the scientific and political communities to gain the support of the general public to such an extent that these two specific instances of science journalism transcended their usual features to become successful forms of expository science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Participants read a series of news articles, each containing a target event followed by 2 causes. To study the ease with which readers update their mental representation as they proceed through the text, the certainty of the first cause was manipulated: It was presented as either a certain explanation of the subsequent target event or as a suspected explanation. In a control condition, no first cause was presented. After a backgrounding section, a critical sentence introduced a second, definitive cause. In Experiment 1, reading times for the critical sentence were the slowest when the first cause was presented as certain. Reading times were also longer in the suspected condition than in the no-cause condition. Because recall protocols collected in Experiment 2 revealed the readers' tendency to encode the suspected cause one half of the time as certain, the hypothetical status of the first cause was stressed in the suspected condition in Experiment 3. Again, reading times increased when a second cause was introduced in both conditions (i.e., suspected and certain), and varied as a function of the certainty of the first cause. These results highlight that as long as a cause has been invoked earlier in the news articles, the updating process needs extra processing time to incorporate a new cause; this extra time is necessary independent of the certainty of the information that has to be replaced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author focuses on teaching college students how to write effective paragraphs using newspapers as a tool. Based from his experience as a college teacher, the author asserts that the problem of the students in a rural setting relate not merely to just communicating ideas but generating them on their own as well. He also notes that the experiment he conducted was carried out in Bharath Niketan Engineering College among the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) students.

This article presents a case study on the newspaper reading habits of university students at Chaudhary Charan Singh University in India. Topics include ways that reading can help solve cultural language adaption problems in a multicultural community, a pattern of first language preferences for Hindi or English from students at the university, and suggestions for libraries to increase newspaper reading habits through displays and notifications.

This article presents a study conducted at the Olabisi Onabanjo University library in Ogun State, Nigeria concerning the use of the newspaper resources by students and opinions on the success of the library services that provide access to these resources. Topics include newspapers as a vital source of socially bonded information dispersion in enlightened societies, the rise of historic newspapers in the estimation of scholars and professors for period research purposes, and perceived barriers of access to newspaper sources in libraries highlighting gender disparities in newspaper resource usage.

Newspapers are one of the most important sources of health information for the public in China, yet little is known about the coverage of health issues in Chinese newspapers. Using the theories of agenda setting and framing, we explored research questions such as what health-related topics were covered and how they were covered in Chinese newspapers. This study used a sample of two constructed weeks in 2007 of one national and five leading local newspapers of the five most populated cities in China: 558 health-related articles were identified. It was found that certain diseases and risk factors were underreported as compared with their actual morbidity and mortality rates in China. Most of the health reporting was framed in a non-negative frame. It was also found that causes and preventions of diseases were more likely to be attributed to the individual than to the society. As one of the first comprehensive content analyses on the coverage of health-related issues in China, this study provides health care professionals and policymakers a broad picture of health information available to the public in Chinese newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives. We examined how causes of and solutions to racial/ethnic health disparities are covered and framed in newspapers over time. Methods. We used LexisNexis to identify articles on racial/ethnic health disparities published from 1996 through 2005 in 40 US newspapers. We coded articles for diseases and racial/ethnic groups mentioned; whether causes and solutions were framed as genetic, behavioral, health care, or societal responsibility; and whether a social-justice rationale for eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities was invoked. Results. We identified 3823 racial/ethnic health disparity articles. Coverage peaked in 1998 and has declined since. Disparities in HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, and cancer generated the most coverage. Articles focused primarily on African Americans. Only 30% of articles provided causal or solution explanations, with academic researchers providing the most causal explanations and advocacy groups providing the most solutions. For both causes and solutions, behavioral explanations dominated the discourse, followed by societal, health care, and genetic explanations. Only 4% of articles invoked a social-justice rationale. Conclusions. The dominance of behavioral explanations may limit public support for policy solutions to eliminate racial/ethnic health disparities. Future research should examine the design and dissemination of effective messages about the social determinants of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is the result of my master's degree dissertation that is to describe the profile of the research in Astronomy Teaching in Brazil, through the newspapers of Science Teaching analysis that have been published in the last twenty years. The work is divided in two parts, a quantitative one, in which the data were collected by the analysis of 1772 articles published in newspapers of national circulation, and a second part that corresponds to an interpretation of a 38 published articles in the Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física, where we tried to understand how it is described by researchers. As a theoretical referential, we used the Laurence Bardin's Content Analysis, and as a technique of data analysis/collect in the first part and yet the Chevallard's Didactic Transposition Concept in the second part as a way to evaluate the patterns found in the texts of these newspapers that allowed us to recognize the author's view of the analyzed area. What we have found was an area that is still been built, but with very defined characteristics when the issue are the problems that were found, the way they are spread and the researcher's concern in transforming the Astronomy Teaching in a potential didactic resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: More than 52 countries make use of the 'Newspapers in Education' programme. In the last 10 years, in Belgium, an application of the international programme Newspapers in Education has become a well-known way of stimulating adolescents to explore the political realm and challenge the way they think about and participate in democracies. However, the longer-term effectiveness of the programme is not fully understood because studies tend to focus on a period shortly after programme participation. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate whether pupils who participated in the Newspapers in Education programme scored more highly on scales of media use/habits and social and political attitudes, in a survey conducted more than half a year after programme participation. Programme description: The programme Newspapers in Education was evaluated. Newspapers in Education makes newspaper reading accessible to young people by providing a free newspaper package containing a variety of national newspapers for each student. This way, the programme aims at connecting young people to current affairs, and wants to stimulate interactive ways of teaching to attain the goals that are often specified when the teaching of citizenship education is concerned. The programme, moreover, has the firm intention of creating a generation of critical thinkers and informed citizens. Sample details: For the assessment of the effects of the Newspapers in Education programme, the 'Belgian Youth Survey' was used. The Belgian Youth Survey 2006 is a representative survey conducted in 2006 among more than 6000 15- and 16-year-olds in Belgium (both in the French and Dutch communities). However, for these analyses we focussed on the data of the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, i.e. Flanders (N = 3453), because the Newspapers in Education programme has manifested itself on a continuous basis in this community for several years. Design and methods: The Belgian Youth Survey 2006 is based on written surveys filled out by the respondents in schools. The response rate at the Flemish school level is 72%. This survey tried to tap into social and political attitudes of young people and also provided us with specific background characteristics, which we could control for when looking into programme effects. Because the aim of this study was to uncover longer-term effects of the Newspapers in Education programme whilst controlling for individual background effects, bivariate and regression analyses were used. Main findings in relation to the research goals/objectives: Results suggested that the participants of Newspapers in Education may follow the news, particularly on the Internet, more often than their non-participating peers; they also displayed a slightly higher level of political knowledge. However, many other differences between participating and non-participating groups were not significant. In addition, a slight association was apparent in the media use of students receiving vocational education. The relationship between participating in the programme and tolerance towards ethnic minorities was also significant for the whole sample. Main conclusion: In this study, only minor differences were detected between the media use/habits and social and political attitudes of participants and non-participants in the Flemish Newspapers in Education programme. It is possible that the brevity of the programme itself may make it difficult for its impact to be evident six months after participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author summarizes the rationale for using science articles in K-16 education and addresses some of its limitations. The author also encourages scientists and college science faculty to contribute contextually relevant articles that might include selected literary techniques to their local or state newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study reflects on the policy introduced by the Flemish government to support the newspaper industry with qualitative measures with a view to securing the future readership market. The Flemish government's Media Policy Document explicitly states that it aims to create the context and conditions in which each citizen can fully participate in the information society. The Newspapers in Education (NIE) project was re-introduced in Flemish schools with financial support from the Flemish government in 2004. Research has demonstrated the potential of socialisation initiatives to promote newspaper reading in a school environment. When in 2007 the Flemish government increased its contribution substantially to 1.2 million euros per year, the original target group (pupils aged 16-18) could be expanded considerably to include other age groups and other social groups, such as “groups at risk”. This paper presents a selection of the results of the 2007 quantitative survey, with special attention to the attitudinal changes in different age groups in relation to their accessibility to newspapers. The results indicate a possible cumulative impact of the NIE programme after multiple participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: The media play a vital role in public education. The predominant image they portray of plastic and reconstructive surgery is that of cosmetic surgery, whilst the specialty''s true scope is often misrepresented. The aim was to evaluate portrayal of plastic surgery in the national newspapers. LexisNexis™ Professional search engine was used to retrieve articles from all UK newspapers published in 2006 that contained the term ‘plastic surgery’ and each article was analysed. Of 1191 articles, 89% used the term ‘plastic surgery’ in the context of cosmetic surgery and only 10% referred to reconstructive work. There were 197 feature articles on cosmetic surgery and 52% of them included a quote from the medical profession. If the quoted doctor was on the UK General Medical Council (GMC) specialist register for plastic surgery, it was significantly more likely that a potential problem or complication associated with cosmetic surgery would be mentioned (p= 0.015). The vast majority of newspaper articles refer only to the cosmetic component of plastic surgery. When quoted, doctors on the GMC specialist register for plastic surgery provide a more balanced view of cosmetic surgery. Further initiative is needed to portray the full scope of plastic and reconstructive surgery to the general public. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Analyzing data from a survey of South Korean respondents, this study explores the role of news media in informing the audience about politics. In particular, it is examined whether different forms of news media function to increase the gap in political knowledge between socioeconomic classes. Consistent with findings in the United States, newspaper reading was positively related to political learning. Use of political web sites also indicated a small learning effect. Data supported the knowledge gap hypothesis. There was a considerable gap in political knowledge between highly educated and less-educated respondents. More importantly, the gap was even greater among heavy newspaper readers and among political Web users. These findings indicate that newspapers and the Internet may function to increase the gap between social classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the study of the reaction of the University of Florida's students on the free edition of "Gainesville Sun" and on their campus newspaper titled "Independent Florida Alligator." The study aims to examine the students' reaction on the campus-centered edition of "Gainesville Sun." It uses a survey data which are given to the online economics students of the University of Florida. It also explores the effects of childhood exposure, race, ethnicity and education on newspaper readership.

For some time European newspaper markets have been confronted with decreasing circulation and readership figures. Research focused on patterns of consumption reveals that young people in particular spend less time reading newspapers. Since 2003, the government in Flanders has supported the Newspapers in Education programme in search of more' qualitative and long-term alternatives to press subsidy, aimed at the preservation of the future readership market. As a result, the government and Flemish newspaper publishers distribute almost 1 million newspaper copies to schools every year. Each school year, approximately 100,000 students participate in the Newspapers in Education project. Over the years the financial support has grown and recently the Flemish government decided to substantially increase its contribution to €1.2 million, which will make it possible to expand the target group considerably, beyond the original focus on 16- to 18-year-olds. The research presented in this article analyses the shifts in pre and post test design survey results of the participants who took part in the Newspaper in Education project between February and May 2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the newspaper "Estrella d'Alva", published in the early 20th century in Loriga, Portugal. According to the author, the newspaper publishers aimed not only at informing the news but also to free the populations from political indifference and encourage political participation through the vote, moralize public life according to the Catholic Church principles.

The article presents an investigation on the use of media reports for the teaching of science in the classroom in Canada. To determine current and potential uses of media reports in classrooms the authors conducted research in three areas. First, they investigated major science education policy documents and found that there are few statements making direct reference to the use of media reports. Second, they analyzed provincial assessment materials and found exam items using media reports. Third, they interviewed high school teachers to determine their practice and views on using media reports in education.

This article examines the use of newspapers to increase literacy skills and augment the curriculum. The authors explore how to teach about the newspaper and then use that knowledge to learn from it. Teachers must infuse their learning of students beyond their interaction with the newspaper in the social studies classroom. Students can explore the information gathered in context. Moreover, critically examining newspapers allows students to question the content of a particular article and encourages them to contemplate how what is deemed important can be constructed.

Journalism is a more or less autonomous field of study across the globe, yet the education and training of journalists is a subject much debated—but only rarely researched. This paper maps some of the salient issues when studying the structure and culture of a journalism education program to identify the key debates facing programs around the world when structuring, rethinking, and building institutions, schools, or departments of journalism where a combination of practical and contextual training is the prime focus. As a point of departure it is assumed that although media systems and journalistic cultures may differ widely, the changes and challenges facing journalism education around the world are largely similar, and thus would benefit from a “global” approach. The key literature and findings from journalism education studies in different parts of the world is thus conceptually synthesized into 10 categories, starting with philosophical notions of motivation and mission, ending with more “down-to-earth” concepts like curriculum and pedagogy. Each category is discussed in terms of the challenges, debates and tensions as educators and trainers in different parts of the world have signaled these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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