Portfolio Building: The relationship with literacies in students’ everyday lives

dc.creator	Angela Brzeski
dc.date	2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:20:24Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:20:24Z
dc.identifier	1441-0559
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/93f61a4d50f1407dbab93987b2ea93ba
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28242
dc.description	This article explores some propositions about how students’ everyday<br />lives may interact with their success at learning in a large Further Education<br />College in England. Some students, on paper, have all the appropriate entry<br />qualifications, but still struggle to complete their courses. Indeed, some do<br />not complete at all. So, what could be done to help these students achieve<br />success? As a member of a large-scale research project team, I have been<br />investigating the home literacies of further education students. Papen<br />(2005a:14) points out that ‘it is useful and necessary before any intervention<br />can be planned, to carry out research which identifies learners’ everyday<br />literacy practices’. Of course, there are many other aspects of people’s<br />everyday lives that will influence their learning success. However, in this<br />article I want to focus on the possibility of the influence of home literacy<br />practices, by exploring how the reading and writing in the everyday lives of<br />students could be drawn upon and utilized in order to help these students to<br />succeed on their chosen college courses.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Technology, Sydney
dc.relation	http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/1946
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1441-0559
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
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	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	Portfolio Building: The relationship with literacies in students’ everyday lives
dc.type	article