Exploring ‘Special needs’ and Multiliteracies provision

During 1999-2000 ALNARC adopted a parallel series of investigations into literacy and numeracy delivery in areas beyond the immediate vocational education and training domain. In particular the projects explored provision for groups often identified as having ‘special needs’ for example youth, indigenous populations and women. A further dimension of these investigations in 2000 explored how literacy and numeracy provision could be understood through frameworks of literacy and ‘social practice’ and the notion of ‘multi literacies (following work initiated by The New London Group). These projects provide a varied profile of the range of ways groups access and use literacy and numeracy and offer insights into the relations between formal vocational pathways and other avenues for accessing training and education for citizenship.

	Pebbles in a Pond: Learner, Teacher, and Policy Perspectives on Mutual Obligation. Melbourne: Language Australia. ALNARC 2000. <click here to view contents list>
	Millar, Pat & Falk, Ian (2000). Seniors Online: Online Literacy and Learning by Senior Citizens in Rural Centres. Melbourne: Language Australia.
	Davis, Janelle & Searle, Jean (2001). Seeding Literacy: Adult Educators Research Their Practice. Melbourne: Language Australia. <click here to view contents list>
	Boyd, Kate (2001) Mentoring Research for Adult Literacy and Numeracy Practitioners in the Top End of the Northern Territory. <click here to download report>
	Castleton, Geraldine and McDonald, Marya (2002) Multiple literacies and social transformation: a case study of perceptions of literacy needs and social transformation by service providers of low skilled disadvantaged clients in an outer urban area of Brisbane. Melbourne: Language Australia. <not yet available>
	Johnston, Betty, Sheilagh Kelly and Ken Johnston (2001). The rise and fall of the NSW Adult Literacy Information Office. ALNARC NSW, University of Technology, Sydney. <click here to download report>
	Shore, Sue; Trenerry, Ruth & Coombe, Melanie (Eds.) (2001). Doing Literacy, Doing Literacy Research: Researching Practice in Adult Literacy Settings. Melbourne: Language Australia. <click here to see contents list>
	Suda, Liz (2001). Policies and Pedagogies for Lifelong Literacy: International Perspectives for the 21st Century. Melbourne: Language Australia. <click here to view summary>
	Weatherill, Pamela and Elizabeth Reid Boyd (2001) There’s More than Just the Newspaper. A pilot study on the social literacies required by young job seekers. <click here to download report>