Computer Literacy:

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Computer Literacy:

No abstract available for this article.     

Literacy and Communication Technologies: Distance Education Strategies for Literacy Delivery

This article examines the promotion of literacy through information and communication technologies (ICTs) and through various modes of distance learning. After a general discussion of these approaches, the article focuses on efforts towards reducing illiteracy in Nigeria through integrated strategies for literacy delivery and especially through distance learning. After highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of these measures, the author makes some suggestions on how to maximize their effectiveness in helping Nigeria to achieve the targets of the Education for All agenda and the Millennium Development Goals.     

Literacy Literacy

The paper argues that the term ‘literacy’ has become attached to too many disparate practices, and that renewed attention needs to be paid to how the acquisition and use of skills of written communication are conditioned by the core structures of the home, the classroom, and the state. It reviews the current usages of literacy and examines the agenda for further research in the central areas of reading and particularly writing. Attention is drawn to the contemporary engagement with literacy as a basic skill, and to the recent implementation in England of the “National Literacy Strategy.” The close parallels between the 19th and early 21st century literacy strategies are noted. If historians wish to apply their research to an interrogation of contemporary ideology and practice, greater attention should be paid to domestic instruction and to the role of government over time.     

Promoting Emotional Literacy: Emotional Literacy Improves and Increases Your Life Chances

Peter Sharp, an Educational Psychologist, explains how Daniel Goleman's best selling book focused his interest on the idea of emotional literacy; how he found that interest was shared by Southampton's Education Services Chief Inspector and that, as a result of this, emotional literacy became one of the Authority's priorities. The wide range of initiatives currently taking place in Southampton are described as the broad way in which the concerns of emotional literacy are interpreted. The Southampton approach has already created interest among other LEAs and there are plans to produce supportive materials. The paper concludes by suggesting the way in which schools might start work in this area.     

Bilingual education in Nicaragua

Specialist in social anthropology. Founder and director of the Atlantic Coast Research and Documentation Centre (CIDCA) and member of the National Autonomy Commission, a body that discusses the autonomy laws on the different regions of Nicaragua. Author of numerous articles on subjects related to social anthropology.     

Literacy,Numeracy and Computer Literacy

Abstract

Prevailing hierarchical attitudes have prevented most British organisations changing to more successful democratically run organisational cultures. Many academics have played a part in this by themselves suppressing the lessons of best democratic practice. The human and economic cost of hierarchical working and teaching/ learning practices makes it morally incumbent on those who work in education to rationally and honestly evaluate evidence and voice the central and urgent need for top managers to take the lead in the culture change process required for high quality educational and industrial performance.