Episode 15 Family Literacy

<p>In this episode, I am chatting with Lana McCarthy about family literacy, also known as family learning. Lana has worked in this area for many years and developed the &#39;Hug Your Book&#39; programme. She has recently established a Community of Practice for Family Literacy, a partnership between the Literacy Development Centre in the South East Technological University (SETU LDC), NALA (National Adult Literacy Agency) and Adult Literacy for Life National Programme Office (ALL NPO).</p><p><br></p><p>If you would like to join the Community of Practice, you can register at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://forms.office.com/e/fVan26wNsr" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://forms.office.com/e/fVan26wNsr</a> </p><p>You can also contact Lana at Lana.McCarthy@setu.ie.</p><p><br></p><p>If you want to check out Lana&#39;s PhD. research on Parental engagement you can do so here:</p><p><a href=""><em>McCarthy, L, (2025) `The Dance of Engagement&#39;: AConstructivist Grounded Theory Study of Parental Engagement., Trinity CollegeDublin, School of Linguistic Speech &amp; Comm Sci, Clin Speech &amp; LanguageStudies, </em></a><a href="https://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/110774"><em>h</em>ttps://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/110774</a></p><p></p>