New acquisitions at the Literacy BC resource centre

There are complete lists of new acquisitions at the Resource Centre webpage.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


Previous Page Contents LitBC Home