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At the Learning Planet Institute, an initiative launched with UNESCO, we’ve seen many programs that foster the ability and motivation to learn, act and lead for a better world.
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Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
Initiatives to tackle South Africa’s reading crisis must take the country’s realities into account.
Victims of ATM fraud in Nigeria are often shocked to find out that their defrauders are close family friends or relatives.
Students from non-English speaking backgrounds learn differently depending on the types and number of languages they speak and are literate in.
Textbooks have been at the centre of two major South African court cases. They may not be a magical cure for all the country’s education ills, but research shows they are a critical part of learning.
This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
If Malawian children do not learn basic skills like reading, will this harm them in the long term? Recent evidence suggests the answer is yes – at least in terms of their health.
Two initiatives aimed at getting children to learn and read more have just launched with a flourish. The $15m Global Learning Xprize pits teams of innovators across the world in a competition aiming to…
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, University of Stavanger
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware
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Associate Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Migration and Education, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Professor in the Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, University of Pretoria
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Président (Chief Exploration Officer), Learning Planet Institute (LPI)
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Executive Vice President, Learning Planet Institute (LPI)
