Literacy
Learning to read, and who was allowed to. Hornbooks and primers, mass schooling, literacy campaigns, the alphabet wars and phonics, adult literacy work, and the parts of the world where the fight is still on.
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- - Kind krijgt leesles van generaal. Identificatie Titel(s): Kind krijgt leesles van generaal Valeur, malheur, vertu. Le gxxxxal. montrant à lire au fils d'un de ses anciens soldats (titel op object) Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1905-3583 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Jean Henri Marlet (vermeld op object), drukker: Charles Philibert de, Comte de La
- - Literacy in Austria-Hungary (1880). Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph.
- - Kinderen krijgen onderwijs in de school van het koninklijk Deens ballet, Bestanddeelnr 252-9221. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries.
- - BaSesotho Final Workshop 01. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries.
- - Anti-illiteracy certificate, Soemaijah (1953-10-25). Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph.
- - What dyslexia is. Short explainer on the phonological processing differences behind dyslexia, which affects up to one in five people.
- - Literacy for peace in South Sudan. UNESCO documentary on literacy programmes in South Sudan and their role in reconstruction.
- - Adult literacy among Malawi's smallholder farmers. Programme film on literacy classes run through a farmers' association, and what reading changes for members' work.
- - UNESCO's literacy programme in Afghanistan. On the Enhancement of Literacy in Afghanistan project, one of the largest adult literacy programmes attempted anywhere.
- - The bilingual brain. Explainer on how learning and using more than one language changes cognition across a lifetime.
- - Anti-illiteracy certificate, Soemaijah (1954-04-05) - Ministry of Education. Literacy teaching and campaigns, adults and children being taught to read. Modern photograph.
- - A child with no books at home. National Literacy Trust film following a girl in a household where no one reads, and what access to books changes.
- - Teaching adults to read. Adult-literacy teachers at Lehman College on what brings learners in and what keeps them coming back.
- - Mobile-phone literacy in Egypt. A learner's account of an ICT-based literacy project piloted in Egypt using mobile phones to deliver lessons.
- - 36 million American adults who cannot read well enough to work. PBS NewsHour on adult literacy in the United States and on programmes reaching only a fraction of those who need them.
- - Before the ABCs. On the pre-literacy foundations laid before formal reading instruction begins.
- - How Maya script was deciphered. The long effort to read Maya glyphs, from Diego de Landa's alphabet to Yuri Knorozov's phonetic breakthrough, and what it unlocked in the four surviving codices and the inscriptions.
- - The Divinity School. A virtual visit to the fifteenth-century vaulted room beneath Duke Humfrey's Library.
- - What was literacy?. A history programme examining how literacy has been defined and measured in different periods.
- - The push to purge books from schools. PBS NewsHour examines a school-district removal campaign and the cultural divisions behind it.
- - Dyslexia, rhythm and the developing brain. Usha Goswami's lecture on the phonological and rhythmic basis of reading difficulty, and what it implies for how children are taught.
- - Adult education in Mozambique. UNESCO on supporting adult literacy and access to education in Mozambique since 2009.
- - The cost of the literacy crisis. National Literacy Trust on how the cost of living is depressing child literacy in the lowest-income UK households.
- - Her education, our future. UNESCO documentary following four young women in different countries whose schooling and literacy are at stake.
- - Is being bilingual good for your brain?. BBC on the evidence for and against claimed cognitive benefits of bilingualism.
- - Orality and literacy. An examination of Walter Ong's argument about how writing and print changed human thought.
- - The American literacy crisis explained. An examination of American adult literacy statistics and the arguments about what is driving them.
- - Ireland's adult literacy agency wins the UNESCO Confucius Prize. Short award announcement for NALA's e-learning platform for adult learners.
- - How comics help people learn to read. On the history of comics in education, from the moral panic of the 1940s to their current use in literacy teaching.
- - India's Supreme Court bans a school textbook. A news report on the Indian Supreme Court restricting an NCERT textbook chapter.
- - How penny-serial vampires improved literacy. A history series arguing that cheap Victorian serial fiction expanded the reading public.
- - 2.4 million Afghan girls shut out of school. Reuters on UNESCO's estimate of girls excluded from secondary education in Afghanistan since 2021.