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Family Literacy Works!
Literacy skills have a decisive influence on pupils’ academic success and social integration. Family participation in creating an environment conducive to literacy and early education is a significant factor in overcoming social exclusion and poverty. This Erasmus+ project piloted family literacy programmes in families and analysed the results for further study.
The Family Literacy Works! project focused on developing new methodologies to support families in developing pupils’ literacy skills, with specific attention to pupils from Roma communities and those with migrant experience, living in poverty, with special educational needs, or who are at risk of early school leaving.
It set out to identify good practices, define a new occupational profile for family literacy facilitators, and develop a training course, and produced a package applicable in different national contexts, comprising:
- A comparative analysis of the project results in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia, detailing good family literacy practices at schools, libraries, and non-governmental organisations.
- An occupational profile for family literacy facilitators, coordinated with the European Qualifications Framework.
- A training course that uses the occupational profile as a framework and includes competences, curricula, methodologies, learning materials and more.
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Education type:Early Childhood Education and CareSchool Education
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Evidence:N/A
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Funding source:European funding, Local funding, National government, Private funding
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Intervention level:N/A
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Intervention intensity:N/A
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Participating countries:BulgariaNorth MacedoniaPortugalRomaniaSlovenia
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Target audience:TeacherStudent TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalLibrarianTeacher EducatorResearcherNot-for-profit / NGO staffParent / Guardian
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Target audience ISCED:Early childhood education (ISCED 0)Primary education (ISCED 1)