Research

Evaluation Report 2011

How the Family Literacy Project has contributed to the lives of its members, their families and communities

Experiments in the provision of rural community libraries in South Africa: the Family Literacy Project’s initiatives. UKZN

The Impact of the Family Literacy Project on Adults in Rural KwaZulu-Natal: A Case Study, University of Natal, Durban (M.Ed dissertation)

Family Literacy Project Adult Education and Development No 61 Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association

Literacy for now and the future:Working with parents and children. Language Matters. 35:2

Making reading a shared pleasure and a valuable skill: The Family Literacy Project in the southern Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal Innovation, No 26 June 2003 University Library, University of Natal

Encouraging young childen to use our libraries. IFLA/ALP Reading Promotion Workshop. Windhoek, Namibia.

Prepare your child to read Durban: Family Literacy Project (also available in Zulu)

Family Literacy Project. Evaluation 2007, Durban

Evaluation of the Family Literacy Project, Durban

A synergistic mix: Spreading the messages of child health through a family literacy programme in rural KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. Symposium on Early Childhood Development: The Eastern and Southern African Experience, Livingstone, Zambia 20-22 August, 2008.

Bringing literacy skills to young children: a qualitative evaluation. Child, Youth and Family Development, Human Sciences Research Council.

Family literacy: a project to get parents involved South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 69 (2).

Getting children to read. Free State Libraries, January – March:2-6

The parent/child/teacher reading relationship. Per Linguam, 15(2): 18-27

Who reads what? Fiction reading by young people in South Africa Innovation, No 26 June 2003 University Library, University of Natal

The need is to read: make reading an enjoyable and rewarding activity for all. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 16 April

Preliteracy skills: Give your child a head-start in life. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 23 April.

Developing a positive attitude to reading. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 30 April 2000.

Using literacy in the environment. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 7 May.

What stories teach children. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 28 May.

Parent power. Sunday Times, Read/Right Supplement, 4 June

Helping your child become a reader. Cape Town: New Africa Publishers

Using a Community-Based Curriculum To Promote Literacy in Soweto Community Partnerships by Elsa Auerbach (ed.). TESOL Publication. pp 107-120.

Learning From Soweto: The Story of Two Family Literacy Programs in South Africa and the United Kingdom Family Literacy. From Theory to Practice by DeBruin-Parecki, A Krol-Sinclair, B. (eds.) IRA Publication. Pp227-248.

Reviving a Culture of teaching and Learning Through Parents and Schools Learning Clubs Reading For All in Africa: Building Communities Where Literacy Thrives ny Arua Arua (ed.) IRA Publication, pp.43-50

Book Review of M. Martin-Jones and K. Jones (eds) Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Writing Different Worlds. The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 2 (3) pp323-326.

The socio-educational context of literacy accomplishments in disadvantaged schools: Lessons for reading in the early primary school years Journal for Language Teaching 38 (1) 2004

What’s inside the box? Children’s early encounters with literacy in South African classrooms Perspectives in Education, Volume 22 (2) June 2004

The Family Literacy Project Evaluation 2008