For the last four years PEN South Africa has partnered with the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), the organisation which initiated and drove the first four years of the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. Together,...
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This column was originally published in Sunday World and online at Books LIVE: By Carole Bloch We are all aware that increasing attention has been focused on the development of reading culture and on children learning to read and write...
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Photograph: Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke speaking at the ‘Raising key issues for transforming children’s literacy and literature’ dialogue, January 2016. This year PEN SA and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South...
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Photograph: Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke PEN South Africa and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) held the first in a series of discussions on children’s literacy development and literature...
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23 September 2015, Johannesburg This month, the Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign celebrates the 100th edition of its popular literacy supplement produced in partnership with Times Media. As the only bilingual resource of its kind in South Africa, it bridges home, community...
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