ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Tim Warwick, founder and CEO of the Education Equity Alliance, is joined by Associate Professor Helen Adam, for a conversation exploring the critical role of literacy in achieving educational equity. Helen is a lecturer and researcher at Edith Cowan University, a former teacher and now President of the Primary English Teachers Association of Australia, a recent Churchill Fellow, and author of new book, Creating Equitable Literacy Learning Environments: A Transformative Model.
Read Helen's PETAA paper on realising the right to read through equitable literacy environments, as well as her latest articles on differentiated literature mirrors for diverse children, and representation in children's books.
In the episode, Helen also references articles written by Mark Seidenberg, which can be found here, and here.
Finally, Helen comments on Aboriginal English being a rule-based dialect of English, which you can learn more about here.
