CRaB recently launched a new podcast series – Culture Bars. Culture Bars is a collaborative project realized by international scholars, educators, artists and grassroots community
Booklaunch for Lexie Scherer’s Children, Literacy and Ethnicity
On 8 April 2016 one of CRaB’s members, Lexie Scherer, from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Education and Childhood Studies, launched her book Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Children Reading the Primary School at the university’s local branch of Blackwell’s. Professor Matthew Weait, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities andSocial Sciences, spoke about the importance of books and bookshops generally, about the importance of children’s reading and literature, and about his pride in a colleague having conducted and published such important research. Lexie then introduced the book, thanking the children involved in her research – mostly ethnic minority and refugee children
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