July webinar focuses on international literacy and learning
Save the date for the next installment of NCFL’s national webinar series on Thursday, July 24, where speakers will highlight family literacy programming from across the globe.
Originating in the USA in the 1980s, family and intergenerational literacy and learning (FILL) programs have now spread across the globe. However, FILL practices, programs, models, and policies in low- or middle-income, non-Anglophone nations have received little attention. We also need a better understanding of how families around the world use print, oral, and digital literacies informally in their everyday lives. A new book – Family and intergenerational literacy and learning: International perspectives (UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2025) – addresses these issues. Join the book’s editors, Dr. Esther Prins and Ms. Rakhat Zholdoshalieva, as they discuss this free new resource, alongside selected chapter authors, highlighting how family literacy programs have been implemented in geographically, linguistically, and culturally diverse international settings.
