-
The Little Hands Trust Brings Family and Community Literacy Conference
The Little Hands Trust is proud to announce the Family and Community Literacy Conference later this month. For more information read here.
This is a collaboration between BALID (the British Association of Literacy in Development), the British Council and PRAESA. If you are interested in attending the conference below, please contact us by sending a message for details and to see if there are places still available.
Common Goals, Shared Purpose:
Reading, Family Learning and the UPE Targets
24 and 25 January 2011
UCT, Cape Town, South Africa
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MONDAY 24 JANUARY
MORNING
08.30 REGISTRATION
09.00 Welcome & Official Opening with Director, British Council, chaired by Professor Brian
Street, BALID President
10.00-10.15 Bilingual story Vulindlela Reading Club
10.15 Drs Carole Bloch and Neville Alexander, PRAESA Early Literacy Unit, Stories Across
Africa project (StAAf), UCT
‘Creating conditions for biliteracy development in community settings’
11.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK with snacks
11.30 Video: Vulindlela Reading Clubs: Open the way through stories and books
Discussion
12.30 Lunch
AFTERNOON
14.00 Choice of 2 workshops, in a cafe style
a) Dr Ian Cheffy, SIL International, ‘Family learning in Cameroon’
b) PRAESA Early Literacy Unit: Xolisa Guzula, Ntombizanele Mahobe,
Nadeema Musthan
Strategies for sharing stories with children – telling and reading.
15.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK with snacks
15.15 Choice of 2 workshops, in a cafe style
a) PRAESA Early Literacy Unit ‘Writing to make books – with and for children’
b) Joyce Nairuba, LABE, Uganda: ‘Family Literacy in Difficult Environments:
Lessons from Northern Uganda’
16.10 Plenary review of the day and report back from workshops, chaired by Professor
Brian Street
TUESDAY 25 JANUARY
MORNING
08.30 ARRIVING
Morning Session Chaired by Lesley Limage
09.00 Professor Brian Street of Kings College London, & BALID President
‘Publishing Local Stories as part of Family Learning’
10.00 Lyn Stefano Family Literacy Project ‘Exposing vulnerable children to stories and
books through an adult literacy programme’
11.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK with snacks
11.30 Project Literacy, South Africa
‘Rush Home to Read: Lessons and Good Practice’
13.00 LUNCH
AFTERNOON
Afternoon Session Chaired by Juliet McCaffery, BALID
14.00 Information-Sharing Carousel Event: Short presentations by participating
organisations
Followed by Concluding Discussion
16.00 CONFERENCE ENDS
- Events Calendar
August 2011 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 
JulSep 
- PUKU Chat Latest
March 23, 2011, 10:28 am
Nonikiwe - Editor is reading Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
March 12, 2011, 10:28 pm
lamoesther on Nigerians Shocked at NECO Examination's 2% Pass RateI will rather look at the bigger picture of the [...]
March 3, 2011, 1:19 pm
Chelsea is reading Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
February 8, 2011, 8:00 am
Chelsea is reading An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
December 29, 2010, 2:30 pm
paulineblah on Bontle is reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman CapoteHii ( paulineblah@yahoo.in ) I saw your profile today and became [...]
December 29, 2010, 2:29 pm
paulineblah on Nonikiwe - Editor is reading The Seed Children by Bontekanye BotumileHii ( paulineblah@yahoo.in ) I saw your profile today and became [...]
October 27, 2010, 11:46 am
Nonikiwe - Editor is reading The Seed Children by Bontekanye Botumile
September 8, 2010, 11:29 am
Bontle is reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
August 27, 2010, 3:31 pm
Coin is reading 1984 by George Orwell
August 27, 2010, 3:21 pm
Coin on Bontle is reading A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsHow did you find it?
