Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180102982

Funded Activity Summary

Raising the literacy bar for economically-disadvantaged students. This project aims to promote higher order literacy skills among economically-disadvantaged students. Higher order literacy is critical for productive engagement in academic, economic and personal spheres of life in literacy-rich knowledge economies. Opportunities for disadvantaged students to develop advanced literacy skills are limited if schools serving these students focus predominantly on basic skills training. This project will investigate contradictions in policies and practices in Australia and Hong Kong to understand why and how disadvantaged students are supported or unsupported to learn higher-order literacy skills. It also explores successful practices that promote such learning, alongside basic skills, for disadvantaged students. This will provide significant benefits such as providing new conceptual understandings of the policy-practice interface and empirical evidence to inform the design of effective practices that promote higher-order literacy skills, alongside basic skills, for economically-disadvantaged students in Australia and Hong Kong.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2018

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $535,418.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | Specialist Studies in Education | Learning Sciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Learner and Learning Achievement | Pedagogy |

Other Keywords

English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) | Learner and Learning Achievement | Learning Sciences | Pedagogy | Specialist Studies in Education

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