Methadone, Counselling and Literacy: A health literacy partnership for Aboriginal clients

dc.creator	Stephen Black
dc.creator	Anne Ndaba
dc.creator	Christine Kerr
dc.creator	Brian Doyle
dc.date	2012-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T23:02:43Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T23:02:43Z
dc.identifier	1441-0559
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a36adab692b9459babf8083847312304
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23967
dc.description	<!-- @font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }@font-face { font-family: "Baskerville"; }@font-face { font-family: "AGaramond"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 11pt; font-family: AGaramond; }p.LNSText, li.LNSText, div.LNSText { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-indent: 1cm; line-height: 13pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Baskerville; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } --> <p class="LNSText">This paper describes a literacy program delivered at the Kirketon Road Centre (KRC), a primary health centre located in Kings Cross, Sydney. KRC was established to meet the health needs of ‘at risk’ young people, sex workers, and people who inject drugs. The literacy program was initiated from within an Aboriginal health group at KRC, following a request from clients in the group. A teacher from Tranby Aboriginal College delivered the literacy program one afternoon every fortnight over a period of approximately one year. This paper is based on recorded and transcribed ‘reflection’ discussions undertaken over several months between the literacy teacher, a KRC counsellor and the researcher immediately following the literacy sessions. Of particular interest is the nature of the literacy program and its pedagogical approach which is based largely on the delivery of popularly themed worksheet exercises. These activities represent in some ways an approach to adult literacy education that we term ‘autonomous’, that is, as a single set of skills generalisable to other life contexts. This pedagogical approach, however, needs to be understood in relation to the social capital outcomes of the course which take into account the complex and varying relationships and networks of the client group. The real value of the course can be seen largely in terms of the social capital outcomes for individual participants.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Technology, Sydney
dc.relation	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/2619
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1441-0559
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Vol 20, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Methadone, Counselling and Literacy: A health literacy partnership for Aboriginal clients
dc.type	article