Culturally responsive approaches to learning and literacy
Project Details
Information and resources related to improving learners’ literacy learning. Covers topics such as relational and culturally responsive approaches to learning and literacy, soft outcomes for literacy learning versus hard outcomes, and adult literacy theory.
Key Points to Note:
- Relational and culturally responsive approaches to learning and literacy improve learners’ literacy learning.
- These resources aim to support the development of culturally responsive approaches.
A NCLANA Symposium presentation that explores how learners’ literacy learning can be better understood as a result of the interactions between the preferred values, relationships, beliefs, and interactions they have learned from their homes and cultural communities.
(PDF, 9.6 MB, 29-pages)
- 7 July 2014
A YouTube video of the NCLANA Symposium presentation by Mere Berryman, The University of Waikato.
(YouTube, 28.37 mins, 480p)
- 15 September 2014
A Wānanga Fono presentation on soft outcomes such as student confidence and learning to learn, which are often sublimated in the drive to harvest ‘hard outcomes’ such as exam success or grades for assignments.
(PDF, 657 KB, 30-pages)
- 15 September 2014
A Wānanga Fono presentation looking at issues that practitioners face, navigating the ocean of learners’ empowerment against the tides and storms of assessment and learner-centred education. Presented by Bruce George, Literacy Aotearoa. Published September 2014.
(PDF, 9.2 MB, 26-pages)
- 15 September 2014