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A Holistic Approach to Cross-Curricular, Immersive Literacy Improvement in
21 Century Education in Secondary Schools
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Dublin West Education Centre is thrilled to announce its holistic,     multi Literacies initiative.
                                              “
Literacy is key to keeping children from life of disadvantage and crime”,
(Irish Times, 2014). Moreover, educational disadvantage and especially those students struggling with literacy issues, refers to the complex situation where some individuals get less benefit from the education system than their peers. The Education Act 1998  Ireland, defines educational disadvantage as, “the impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools”.
Educational disadvantage is demonstrated in many ways, most often in poor levels of participation and achievement in numeracy and literacy in the formal education system. There are other ways in which children may be disadvantaged, for example as a result of a disability, cross-curricular literacy difficulties, ill health, poverty, homelessness, living in rural environments,  ‘new-comer’ status, etc.
As we enter the third decade of the 21 century, ‘literacy’ as we know it has taken on a variety of meanings and challenges and indeed some argue, especially authors and experts such as Alvin Toffler that, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” (1970).
​This literacy initiative at DWEC seeks to address in new and transformative and holistic ways, some of these ‘literacy inequalities’ by inviting 2nd level schools to explore traditional and/or more holistically approaches to issues surrounding ‘literacy disadvantage’ in their schools. 

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Rationale for the application
  1. Why your school would like to become involved in the holistic Literacy initiative?
  2. What you are doing in holistic Literacy education in your school today?
  3. What benefits you hope to gain from participation?
  4. Your capacity and commitment to the initiative
  5. The role students will play in your development as a holistic Literacy school.
  6. How will you benchmark the success of your initiative?
  7. Any other  information, web links, that you deem relevant to your application

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21 Century, holistic literacies' successful projects.
Second Level schools 2022 - 2023
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Clogher Road Community College - School podcast Global Citizenship
Kingswood Community College - Digital Holistic Literacy
Griffeen Community College - Teachers' Literacy to empower students
Kishoge Community College - The Library is the heart of a school
St John's Secondary School - New Beginnings
St Dominic's College - New Beginnings
Caritas College - New Beginnings
St Seton's Secondary School - New Beginnings

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As a Taster, click below to see how other perceive 21Century learning and Multiliteracies:
​https://21stcenturylearningtoolkit.weebly.com/


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    • SCIENTIX DWEC Garden
  • Biodiversity
    • Ecosystems Diversity
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    • Genetic Diversity
  • SDG's
    • United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2020
    • Tionscnamh Cumarsáide faoin Aontas Eorpach 2020
    • Me, My Europe and I-2021-2022
    • Mise agus an Eoraip-2021-2022
  • ESD
    • 21 Century Literacy Projects
    • Google Biodiversity Projects
  • See Your Projects
    • EU Projects with DWEC
    • 3rd Grade 8-9 years
    • 4th Grade 9-10 years
    • 5th Grade 10-11 years
    • 6th Grade 11-12 years
    • Young Adults Wicklow
    • Creative Clusters >
      • School Film Club
      • About our Creative Initiative
      • Short Films Globally
      • Top Tips – Film Club
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact