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Allen, Nola – Australian Library Journal, 2009
The author describes the aptly-named "Better Beginnings" early childhood literacy project. Conducted by the State Library of Western Australia, sponsored by the WA State Government and Rio Tinto Limited, and closely monitored by Edith Cowan University, "Better Beginnings" has been successful from the outset, with proven…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Desmond, Snoeks, Ed.; Elfert, Maren, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2008
Family literacy is a form of intergenerational learning that is based on the fundamental connection and interaction between the education of children, young people and adults. The family--in its broader sense--builds the foundation for lifelong learning. This book was published to help promote literacy by raising the understanding and awareness of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Adult Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Community Education
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Chodkiewicz, Andrew; Widin, Jacquie; Yasukawa, Keiko – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
Engaging families in school-related programs, such as family literacy programs, has been promoted as an effective strategy to assist students who might otherwise fail to achieve success in school. The authors in this article report on an action research initiative with an urban Australian government community school in a relatively…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Critical Theory, Community Schools, Action Research
Lamontagne, Manon – Centre for Literacy of Quebec, 2007
This bibliography was compiled for The Centre for Literacy's 2007 Summer Institute--"Libraries and Literacy: Making It Work." The literature represented here includes research studies, descriptive articles, guides and manuals. Selections address the principles, "best practices" and assessment of library involvement in literacy…
Descriptors: Libraries, Adult Literacy, Family Literacy, Literacy Education
Cairney, Trevor H.; And Others – 1995
As part of a larger Australian study on family literacy, this study obtained information about a wide range of family or community literacy initiatives currently in operation in Australia. The study was interested in how the language and literacy learning of students from a variety of schools and communities was influenced by the involvement of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Parent Participation
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Cruickshank, Ken – Language and Education, 2004
Literacy in the home is often judged as an inferior version of school literacy. In multilingual contexts, family literacy practices tend to be characterised as traditional and more reliant on oral than literate practices, with the children being seen as disadvantaged by the lack of parental literacy support. This paper argues that literacy…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Adolescents, Family Literacy, Ethnography
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Jay, Jenny; Rohl, Mary – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
This paper describes a family literacy project that involved parents whose children were attending a pre-school centre in a low socio-economic suburb of Perth, Western Australia. A formative experimental design was used to examine the home literacy practices of the families as described by the parents, and to construct a series of workshops. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Research Design, Family Literacy
Cairney, Trevor H.; Munsie, Lynne – 1991
The project described in this paper, called Talking to Literacy Learners or TTALL, was designed to improve the quality of parent child interaction involving reading and writing, to promote gains in literacy standards, and to engender a more positive attitude toward schooling. Designed for an urban community in New South Wales where adult and youth…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Family Literacy
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Beecher, Bronwyn; Makin, Laurie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2002
Researchers observed and rated environments of 80 early childhood settings in Australia, interviewed staff, and conducted focus group discussions with family members regarding early childhood literacy. Case study findings indicated that in settings with strong levels of congruence between family and staff perspectives on early literacies, both…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Culturally Relevant Education, Early Childhood Education
Rights, Mollie – 1996
This paper reviews 5 articles published in 1995 on family literacy research. The articles reviewed are: (1) a study on literacy in Iceland by Ronald Taylor which examined how Icelandic families share language and reading related activities; (2) an article by Barbara Moss and Gay Fawcett which describes and comments on different home literacy…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Involvement, Family Literacy
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Makin, Laurie; Spedding, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Describes the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) project, an early literacy intervention for families of children between birth and age 3 in rural Australia. Findings from monitoring suggest that this collaborative, flexible model has the potential to assist families from a range of social, cultural, economic, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Spreadbury, Julie; Elkins, John – 1993
A 12-month longitudinal study was conducted in Brisbane, Australia, to investigate the interaction that takes place when a parent and young child read together. Parent-child book-reading episodes that took place in the home at the end of the preschool year of 25 randomly selected children and at the end of Year 1 at a State Primary School were…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies
Suda, Liz – 2001
This report presents findings from a review of international trends in adult literacy and numeracy to identify innovative programs of interest to Australia. Section 1 offers definitions of literacy. Section 2 outlines the international context. Section 3 has case studies of innovative approaches in four Organization for Economic Cooperation and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Developed Nations
Edith Cowan Univ., Perth (Australia). – 1994
This document consists of an overview and five papers examining the findings of a comparative analysis of literacy practices in urban and rural Australian communities. The study included case studies of 23 families in 6 communities and documentation of the literacy practices within the 9 schools attended by the children of those families.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices
Bull, Geoff; Anstey, Michele – 1995
This booklet, which was written for literacy educators in Australia, examines selected research on adult literacy practices in rural families and communities and the implications of that research for adult literacy practice. The booklet begins with a discussion of literacy as social practice. The role of case studies in identifying factors…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Competence
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