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ERIC Number: EJ569208
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-4805
Community Service Providers as Literacy Facilitators: A Pilot Project.
Hayden, Ruth; Sanders, Maureen
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v44 n2 p135-48 Sum 1998
Twenty urban Canadian community health and social workers received six hours of training in family-literacy development-strategies As a result, participants demonstrated a shift in attitudes about literacy, from skills-achievement to sociocultural perspectives on literacy-achievement, and included literacy events more frequently in their own professional practices. Contains 23 references and the literacy-attitudes survey. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Services, Educational Attitudes, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Health Personnel, Inservice Education, Professional Development, Reading Attitudes, Social Attitudes, Social Workers, Surveys
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Canada; Literacy as a Social Process
Note: Theme issue: Literacy in the 21st Century.