links to adult literacy research in practice

swimming in the adult literacy, research in practice, alphabet soup ...

links checked june 2009

If you want to read more about Canadian and international adult literacy organizations and research, go the National Adult Literacy Database at www.nald.ca.

If you want to read more research in practice project reports, go to the Research in Practice for Adult Literacy  web site at www.nald.ca/ripal.

If you want to read more about research in practice in British Columbia, go to RiPAL-BC at www.ripal.literacy.bc.ca

If you want to read more Canadian research studies on adult literacy, go to the Directory of Canadian Adult Literacy at www.nald.ca/crd

or to the Adult Literacy Research in Ontario page at research.alphaplus.ca/. This page also has information on how to do research.

If you want to read about some adult literacy research in practice that happened in Ontario, go to the Festival of Literacies at www.literaciesoise.ca.

For information about research in practice with a feminist attitude, go to WE LEARN at www.litwomen.org/welearn.html.

For an online journal about research in practice with a social justice focus, go to The Change Agent at www.nelrc.org/changeagent/.

For information about research in practice in the UK, go to RaPAL (Research and Practice in Adult Literacy) at www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/rapal/.

For a knowledge base of adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international organisations (lots of Canadian stuff here), go to the New Zealand Literacy Portal at http://www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz/.

For information about research in practice in Australia, go to VALBEC (Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council) at www.valbec.org.au, ALNARC (Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium) at www.staff.vu.edu.au/alnarc/.

For information about research in practice in the US, go to NCSALL (National Centre for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy) at gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/. NCSALL is no longer funded but the research reports are still online.

For links to other organizations that support research in practice, click on the About Us tab and scroll down to Partners and Supporters.

For links to sites for online learning, click here.