| New acquisitions at the Literacy BC resource
centre
There are complete lists of new acquisitions at the Resource
Centre webpage.
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Literacy
Happens: A Resource Manual For Community Literacy Awareness Training. By Ruth Hayden and Maureen Saunders, 2002.
This manual provides community workers with "core materials to understand
how literacy is learned, developed and used within community and family
contexts.... The manual provides the background information needed to
present literacy awareness workshops to a range of audiences." It
is directed at those with a literacy background.
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A Practical
Approach to Literacy Program Evaluation. John Anderson and Literacy
Link South
Central, 2000. "The intent of the manual is
to propose methodology, and to provide information and tools concerning
the collection, analysis and application of data related to the evaluation
process....You will find definitions, suggestions for sampling instruments
and data collection tools, sample forms, and methodology for analyzing
data." (Foreword).
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Problem-posing
At Work: English For Action and Popular Educator’s
guide. Nina Wallerstein and Elsa Auerbach, 2004. English
for Action is
an ESL textbook that draws on popular education and Freirian methods,
which integrate learners’ experiences into the learning process.
The Popular Educator’s Guide can act as a guide to the ESL
textbook, and as a guide to problem-posing, critical reflection,
and action for
people in many fields, including literacy and community development.
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Reading
Work: Literacies In the New Workplace. Mary Ellen Belfiore, et al., 2003. "Reading literacies" bridges
theory with practice and is aimed at practitioners who want to
further examine the complexities
of workplace education. The researchers each spent several months
in diverse locations studying and interacting with employees, and
their
analysis places workplace education within the social context of
people's lives.
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Summer
Reading Club: Outreach Library Service Through A Neighbourhood
Storytent Program. Prepared for the Saint John Free Public Library by
Cheryl Brown and Wendell Dryden, 2005. The Storytent Program is a literacy
support program for children and families, and does double duty as library
outreach. Brown and Dryden document the best practices for operating
a storytent program, which, just as it sounds, involves conducting reading
programs under small tents.
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