Nurturing readers: PRAESA and the IBBY-Asahi award

PRAESA (the research initiative behind Nal’ibali) talks about nurturing readers and writers in South Africa, and its solutions for a literate country.
Story as meaning-making

Stories are woven so tightly into the fabric of our everyday lives that it’s easy to overlook their significance in framing how we think about ourselves and the world. They fill every part of our daily lives as we talk about events and people, read books and news reports, gossip, send text messages, listen to music, watch video clips, and catch up on a…