1 About our Wiki
The ReadingWorldwideWiki shall function as a supplement to the ReadingWorldWide Website and therefore has the following aims:
- spreading information about the latest developments and results in reading research
- interconnecting actors of reading education
- sharing ideas
- informing about new project and research on reading education
The ReadingWorldwideWiki is meant to be an OpenSource-project, just like the most prominent of all Wikis, Wikipedia. In our case, though, we want to focus on the single topics of reading research and reading education. By gradually updating the wiki with new projects, definitions and explanations of technical terms in our Glossary, staying up-to-date with the statistical information in the Facts and Figures section, we want to provide a fundamental conglomerate of knowledge on these issues for all actors involved. Generally, this Wiki is open to anybody willing to participate or eager to learning more about the contents. But certainly, we especially target international actors of reading education, such as teachers, librarians, researchers and all other sorts of educators.
To make the ReadingWorldwideWiki a successful enterprise, we need your help and support. Its property as an OpenSource project includes the premise of content being updated in an decentralized manner. Anybody can, with simple knowledge, create new pages, add information to existing pages or update existing but antiquated data. This link will help you getting started in working with the Wiki: MediaWiki
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Article of the month: Media Literacy
Media (or Cine) literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry-based pedagogic model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages. read more
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3 Facts & Figures
Here you get some information about the education system and reading literacy in several countries. For each country, the data you can find here is: (1) the Reading Literacy score (PISA), (2) percentage of Functional Illiteracy, (3) Education expenditures of GDP, (4) School life expectancy, (5) Population under age 15, (6) Pupils leaving school without a degree, (7) Pre-Primary enrollment, (8) Libraries per 1.000 residents, (9) new publications per year. Feel free to update the data with new numbers and references.
Facts and Figures
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4 A new project...
“Ler é Saber”
“Ler é Saber” is a project based on the intention of Instituto Brasil Leitor (IBL): that aims to enable free access to books and literature for everyone- independent of individual financial means and dispositions, to integrate reading into daily life and establish reading competency and a joy of reading as a basis for individual independence and cultural participation. Read more.
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5 Research and Evaluation News
Turkey Reading Culture Map: How many books Turkish people read and own, and a note about data visualization
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey recently published a survey titled Turkey Reading Culture Map (Türkiye Okuma Kültürü Haritası) which sheds light on the reading habits of people in Turkey. Istanbul residents are fond of romance novels while people in southeastern provinces often read books with psychological themes, like the first-ever map of Turkey’s “reading culture” has revealed. more
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6 Video Recommendation
Goethe Institut Ivory Coast and their reading mascot "Bernd"
A wide range of Reading projects have been organized by the Goethe Institut's library in Ivory Coast for several West African countries. With their mascot Bernd, a mouse, they held media pedagogical workshops, visited classrooms and worked on several levels with librarian and children. Watch this video in German with French subtitles.
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