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Direct linkParry, Kate; Kirabo, Elizabeth; Nakyato, Gorreth – Multilingual Education, 2014
This article discusses the importance of family practices to children's acquisition of literacy and describes attempts to influence such practices through the institution of family literacy programmes. One of these is the Family Literacy Project in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which both served as a model and provided material for a similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Literacy Education, African Languages
Download full textDrajea, Alice J.; O'Sullivan, Carmel – Global Education Review, 2014
This article investigates the effect of parents' literacy levels and family income in Uganda on the quality and nature of parents' involvement in their children's primary education. A mixed-methods study with an ethnographic element was employed to explore the views and opinions of 21 participants through a qualitative approach. Methods for data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Family Income, Parent Participation
Parry, Kate – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2010
This paper draws on data collected at the Kitengesa Community Library in Masaka District of Uganda to discuss some of the different literacies that are important in African environments. First, the literacies associated with different languages are analysed, these being classified as "supralanguages" (English in Uganda), "lingua…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Literacies, African Languages, Official Languages
