Projects 2001

1. Literacy for Youth: what counts as success in programs for youth at risk?

Australia’s literacy for youth programs and policies lag behind those of other OECD countries. This project will build on recent work in this area to answer the questions: (1) How are literacy and numeracy incorporated or addressed in the context of programs for unemployed and disaffected youth? (2) What are six programs that seem to be succeeding in this area? (3) How can the pedagogy and curriculum of those programs be described and what do we know about their learning outcomes? (4)What kinds of practices seem to be most successful and why?

For further details contact Liz.Suda@vu.edu.au

2. Adult Literacy practitioners and the ESL Learner

Current policy initiatives suggest that ESL and literacy are being conflated for ease and efficiency of implementation, possibly also economic expediency. This project will examine the ways in which practitioners accommodate the needs of ESL learners by asking questions such as: (1) How does the integration of ESL learners into adult literacy provision impact on pedagogical practices? (2) How aware are adult literacy teachers of the different learning needs of ESL and native speaker learners? (3)What are the advantages and disadvantages of such integration from the point of view of the learners and practitioners?

For further details contact Liz.Suda@vu.edu.au

 

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