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The researchers explored the effectiveness of Visual Phonics as a reading instructional tool when used in conjunction with a modified version of the Fountas and Pinnell Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum (Fountas & Pinnell, 2002) with a preschool student who was deaf. The study participant was a 4-year-old deaf child who had a cochlear implant. The goal of the study was to determine whether the student's phonological awareness and speech production improved over the course of a 6-week intervention. Identical pre- and postintervention tests were administered to measure the extent of any improvement. It was found that Visual Phonics used with a phonics-based curriculum significantly increased phonological awareness and speech production.

For many evangelicals, liberation theology seems a distant notion. Some might think it is antithetical to evangelicalism, while others simply may be unfamiliar with the role evangelicals have played in the development of liberation theologies and their profound effect on Latin American, African American, and other global subaltern Christian communities. Despite the current rise in evangelicals focusing on justice work as an element of their faith, evangelical theologians have not adequately developed a theological foundation for this kind of activism. Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice fills this gap by bringing together the voices of academics, activists, and pastors to articulate evangelical liberation theologies from diverse perspectives. Through critical engagement, these contributors consider what liberation theology and evangelical tenets of faith have to offer one another. Evangelical thinkers -- including Soong-Chan Rah, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Robert Chao Romero, Paul Louis Metzger, and Alexia Salvatierra -- survey the history and outlines of liberation theology and cover topics such as race, gender, region, body type, animal rights, and the importance of community. Scholars, students, and churches who seek to engage in reflection and action around issues of biblical justice will find here a unique and insightful resource. Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice opens a conversation for developing a specifically evangelical view of liberation that speaks to the critical justice issues of our time. - Publisher

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology and Transcription Conventions -- 1. Ethnography of the Expelled -- 2. The Language of Blight -- 3. Narrating Diversity -- 4. Voices from the Past -- 5. The Material of Memory -- 6. Nostalgia as Engine of Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II, between four and six million people were 'returned' to Europe from the colonies. From an exporter of people, Europe turned to a site of immigration for the first time in the twentieth century. Until now, these migrations have been overlooked as scholars have highlighted instead the parallel migrations of former 'colonized' peoples. Europe's Invisible Migrants corrects this bias. This multidisciplinary volume presents essays by prominent sociologists, historians, and anthropologists on their research with these 'invisible' migrant communities. Their work highlights the experiences of colonists returning to France, Portugal and the Netherlands, the intersection of race, citizenship, and colonial ideologies, and the ways these migrations reflect the return of the 'colonial' to Europe. This volume offers fresh insights into immigration, racism and ethnic conflict in post-colonial Europe by presenting colonial repatriates as another 'immigrant' population.

Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between both groups, this volume's scholars, artist, and activists investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Sovereignty -- The Place Where We All Live and Work Together: A Gendered Analysis of "Sovereignty" - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Visual Sovereignty - Michelle H. Raheja -- Postcolonial Sovereignty - Nandita Sharma -- Land -- Land as Life: Unsettling the Logics of Containment - Mishuana Goeman -- No Island Is an Island - Vicente M. Diaz -- Indigeneity -- Analytics of Indigeneity - Maile Arvin -- Genomic Articulations of Indigeneity - Kim TallBear -- Nation -- Nationalism - Scott Richard Lyons -- Indigenous Nationhood - Chris Andersen -- Blood -- Blood Policing - Cedric Sunray -- Mixed-Blood - Andrea Smith -- Tradition -- Tradition and Indigenous Languages: Accessing Traditions Epistemologically Through Critical Analysis of Indigenous Languages - Marcus Briggs- Cloud -- Tradition and Performance - Stephanie Nohelani Teves -- Colonialism -- Settler Colonialism - Dean Itsuji Saranillio -- Decolonization - Kirisitina Sailiata -- Indigenous Epistemologies/Knowledges -- Native American Knowledges, Native American Epistemologies: Native American Languages as Evidence - Jane H. Hill -- Epistemology - Dian Million -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.

"This is an edited volume that provides definitions, meanings, and significances of select key concepts often used in Native studies. These concepts include: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nations, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous epistemologies/knowledges. The manuscript is divided into eight sections, and each section includes three or four essays about one of the concepts. The essays provide an historical, social, and political context for the concepts and indicate how they have been drawn upon by scholars of Native studies." - Provided by the publisher