Integrating literacy in further education
This was a research project carried out in cooperation with the winner of the 2007 NALA EBS ACE Awards, the Newbridge Youth Training and Development Centre in Kildare. ‘Living literacy’ highlights the kinds of policies, procedures and practical strategies the centre uses to integrate literacy across its programmes and across the centre. The report also looked at the impact of a whole-organisation approach to literacy in terms of its effects on centre staff, learners and organisation. Finally, the report includes a description of integrated assessment tools and strategies developed and piloted as part of the project. The research concluded that many of the literacy obstacles which some students encounter when they are working towards accreditation arose from the demands of the teaching methods and resources.
