Reading Aloud in Britain Today is an AHRC-funded study of contemporary adult reading aloud practices. Get involved. Tell us when you read aloud and why.
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Calling all adults! Do you ever read out loud? Loudly? Softly? Chanting? Murmuring? Tell us what you do and why. ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research/proje…
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“I think what it helps prisoners do more than anything is connect, prisons for the most part are places of isolation and purposelessness."
We're still on a high from the news that our 2 founders have been awarded OBEs for their services to prisoners.
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There's still time to sign up for our next webinar on teaching literacy - from adults to children, online, in school or summer programmes with researchers and practitioners across the US and U.K. Details 👇👇👇👇 @ILC_RREurope @IOE_London #weareIOE
Our next ILC seminar is on Monday 15th May at 5pm. Register for free here
ucl.zoom.us/webinar/register… to hear authors of this forthcoming @UCLpress book talk about their work teaching literacies in diverse contexts
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@DrRachaelLevy1 and @sineadjhar Getting ready to do a workshop on shared reading at @BaytreeCentre @IOE_London #weareIOE
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It’s International Bagpipe Day.
Here’s Rona Lightfoot playing a 2/4 march, strathspey and reel on the bagpipe. The names of the tunes are 'John MacDonald of Glencoe', 'Arniston Castle' and 'Alex C. MacGregor’. The recording was made in 1953 by @EU_SSSA.
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Did you catch Mary's book programme last night? If not, fear not - you can listen again here.
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@EBSNhq @rapal_uk @NATECLA @LearnUnlimited @IOE_London A wonderful conference for adult literacy, numeracy and language work across Europe - come along!
📣 Call for Proposals for the EBSN Annual Conference 2023 📣
The Conference’s Program Committee is hereby issuing a Call for Proposals for all those interested in contributing to the conference.
👇 More information 👇
basicskills.eu/call-for-prop…
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A wonderful conference for adult literacy, language and numeracy work across Europe. Come along @rapal_uk @NATECLA @IOE_London @EBSNhq
📣 Call for Proposals for the EBSN Annual Conference 2023 📣
The Conference’s Program Committee is hereby issuing a Call for Proposals for all those interested in contributing to the conference.
👇 More information 👇
basicskills.eu/call-for-prop…
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Can't believe it's Week 10 already! Today we have a special symposium for students in our Global Education and International Development module @Warwick_Edu. Guest talks from Tida Tubpun & Sharin Shajahan Naomi, & a slot for @Lorena_SanchezT who co-taught with me this year!
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This week's #Tuesdaytitles are My country Colombia and Colombia - my beautiful land
Written by Natalia Cortes Victoria, a learner on our EU-funded CLIP project, this is an entertaining story about homelands, available at Entry 1 and Entry 2+ levels
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Today we have launched the 1st edition of our public searchable database of c18th letters. It contains 832 original letters. We are delighted to widen access to these letters! #letters #digitalhumanities #twitterstorians
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Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change
Ed. by S. Clancy, K. Harman & I. Jones
The push of neoliberalism struck adult education provision in many countries. Articles about Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Nepal, Romania.
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A Voice for Maria Favela: An Adventure in Creative Literacy | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2022/no…
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We have just sent out the Autumn 2022 Directive to our panel our Observers. Find out what they will be writing about here: massobs.org.uk/images/SxMOA2…
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Register for our 2nd ILC seminar this year with @Diana__Sousa and @PhilofEdWinch A Voice for Maria Favela. An Adventure in Creative Literacy ucl.zoom.us/webinar/register… – at Lambeth, London
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A pleasure to have @Lorena_SanchezT as guest lecturer in the @ba_edu_uea Global & Digital Perspectives in Educationa module. Thanks Lorena for sharing your research w/ adult literacy learners in Mexico & insights on the links bet ‘globalisation’ & indigenous knowledge systems.
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Do you have a question? Not sure of something? Visit our drop-in clinic at the IOE Library with any questions you may have about navigating the library and its resources. From 14/11 to 17/11, 12.30-14.00.
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ALT A friendly IOE Library team member at a desk ready to answer users’ questions.
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Number of adult learners has halved since 2010 - one of the biggest challenges facing @halfon4harlowMP fenews.co.uk/education/tuc-n…
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Happy #BookWeekScotland lovely people! Pop in to @womenslibrary this week to pick up your free Scotland's Stories book, or see us online at our Bold Types Showcase on Thurs to cheer on our brilliantly bold writers 👏bit.ly/3EwrLLi
ALT This year's free Book Week Scotland book is bright orange, with the title Scotland's Stories. The cover has a black ink pen, with an ink blob in the shape of Scotland. It's sitting in Glasgow Women's Library - you can see shelving and chairs in the background.