Posts tagged with ‘literacy’
Child readers and their books in nineteenth-century Britain
Colin Heywood, Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham, focuses on the society and culture in which children were raised in the 19th century.
Tags: Childhood education, children's books, children's stories, Colin Heywood, literacy, literature, manuscripts and special collections
Creating kinder literacy interventions that work
A talk describing a successful intervention that both raised literacy attainment and narrowed the gap in one local authority with 49 primary schools.
Tags: Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy, literacy
In pursuit of the unachievable: the fallacy of meaningful widespread scientific literacy
Presented by Professor Ian Abrahams, Head of School of Education and Professor of Science Education at the University of Lincoln. This paper will argue that widespread scientific literacy is unachievable.
Tags: Ian Abrahams, literacy, School of Education, science, University of Lincoln