The contribution of family literacy programmes to the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities

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The contribution of family literacy programmes to the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities

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Approaches to literacy education named as ‘family literacy programmes’ first emerged in Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 2000s amidst considerable enthusiasm. Such approaches involve adults, children, or both in literacy learning in the contexts of home and family life. They are part of a wider field, established internationally, of academic and practical endeavour encompassing studies of the literacy practices of family members, studies of parents’ support of children’s literacy development...

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Research paper

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Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2012

Creator

Furness, Jane Amanda

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6457

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Adult Literacy Strategy / basic skills / deficit / discourse / diversity / citizenship / co-construction / collectivism / colonisation / community psychology / confidence / Cook Island / critical / critical theory / critique / culture / cultural identity / education / efficacy / empowerment / European / foundation learning / foundation skills / four component model / health / identity / ideology / ideological model / autonomous model / illiteracy / individualism / independence / interdependence / Learning for Living / literacy crisis / Key Competencies Framework / Kenan model / knowledge society / marginalisation / mental health / multiliteracies / multimodality / New Literacy Studies / numeracy / oral language development / outcomes / participation / phenomenology / power / psychological wellbeing / ripple effects / Samoa / school / self-determination / self-efficacy / sense of community / social capital / social cohesion / social constructionism / social-contextual / social exclusion / social identities / social inclusion / social inequalities / social justice / social network / social support / social wellbeing / sociocultural / spirituality / strengths / strengths-based / teaching / tino rangitiratanga / Tonga / Treaty of Waitangi / typology / Whare Tapa Wha / whanau / whanaungatanga / workplace / worldview / borderlands / embedded / whanau literacy programmes / idiosyncratic / interconnected / contextualised / methodological fundamentalism

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