How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches

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dc.contributor.authorHart, Genevieve
dc.date.accessioned22/03/2017 12:20
dc.date.available22/03/2017 12:20
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe article comes out of a panel discussion, featuring five teacher-librarians, which was broadcast to schools across the Western Cape Province of South Africa in 2011. Four of the panelists are graduates of the University of the Western Cape's school librarian programme. The request for the broadcast came from two managers of the Qids-Up school improvement project in the Western Cape Education Department, which has sent collections of books to over 400 historically disadvantaged schools across the province. The aim of the project was to improve prevailing low literacy levels with injections of attractive reading materials in the languages spoken in the schools. The two managers, however, were concerned that the donations of books had had little impact. The article focuses on participants' stories about their reading projects. The discussion provides inspiring and convincing evidence for those, like the author, who have been arguing for years that without libraries and dedicated school- or teacher-librarians, the millions spent on book donations and literacy projects might be wasted.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationHart, G. (2013). How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches. Mousaion 31(1): 47-60en_US
dc.identifier.issn0027-2639
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2690
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144321
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUnisa Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis the post-print version of the article published online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144321
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSchool librariesen_US
dc.subjectTeacher-librariansen_US
dc.subjectLiteracyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleHow school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenchesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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