7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
Helping children read for joy in rural settings By Axium Education Axium Education, based in rural Eastern Cape, is bridging the gap between home and school literacy through a reading programme featuring community readers or “Nobalisas”. Nobalisa’s are young adults...
7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
How to Create School Libraries that Support Self-Directed Approaches to Learning By the Bookery The Bookery sees school libraries as spaces that foster creativity, learning, critical thinking, literacy development and a desire to explore knowledge. To date, they have...
7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
How can we accelerate reading development? Insights from India. Feedback From a Learning Tour DGMT has been exchanging ideas and learning with literacy projects in India. We have been intrigued by the claims of Pratham that children of about five to six years of age...
7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
The FunDza Literacy Trust aims to get young South Africans reading for pleasure, by disseminating high-interest, locally generated reading content that can be accessed via cellphones. The fantastic thing about using a technology platform as its delivery mechanism is...
7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
I recently had the good fortune of taking a trip to Delhi to participate in Pratham’s Joint Review Mission (JRM) to assess their work on the ground across India with a really interesting International team. After remarkable progress across many states in India,...
7 Oct , 2023 | Experience
Over the past eight years provincial and national assessments have shown that a high percentage of South African children do not acquire basic literacy skills in their first three years at school. To address this problem, we need to consider not only what happens in...
