After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
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Research tells us that multilingual literacy matters. But teaching children in Africa to read in their mother tongues as a springboard to literacy in other languages can be a fraught process.
The question of what language(s) to teach Indigenous students, what languages to teach them in, and how to go about it has been generating a little political heat (but not quite so much light) of late…
Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy is a problem without a simple solution. But it can be done. As I’ve argued previously, we need to give up the search for a one-size-fits-all approach and adopt a…
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor, Department of Language & Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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Professor emerita, Australian National University
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Executive Director, The Literacy for Life Foundation; Adjunct Professor, University of New England
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Deputy Dean (Education) and Associate Professor, UNSW Law, UNSW Sydney
