Literacy-friendly further education and training: an exploration of the potential for a whole organisation approach to integrating language and literacy in further education and training in Ireland

This report introduces both theoretical and empirical evidence to support the adoption of a whole organisation approach to integrating literacy support and development across the further education and training sector. The report gives an account of a case study of integrated literacy carried out in cooperation with one college of further education (FE) in Dublin city. The aims of the study were to highlight the language and literacy issues that emerge ‘real time’ for FETAC [Further Education and Training Awards Council] Level 5 learners and their teachers in FE. Strategies for dealing with literacy issues used by college management, learners and teachers were explored and the subsequent lessons gathered as a means to help others working in similar contexts. The core research question was: From a study of day-to day practice in FE, what guidelines emerge for a whole organisation approach to language and literacy in FE colleges in Ireland? This study has been a collaboration between NALA and Liberties College.

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