7 February 2022
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) welcomes chapter proposals for an edited volume on Family and intergenerational literacy and learning: International perspectives.
4 October 2021
Many women from the rural villages in Kangulumira, Uganda, never learned how to read or write. They never had the opportunity to attend school past primary level 2. When money was tight, sons were sent to school and daughters worked the fields and were married off as soon as possible.
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25 March 2021
School closures brought by the COVID-19 crisis forced countries worldwide to implement distance, technology-enabled and other home-based learning. Students who were unable to return to the classroom because of the pandemic instead often turned to parents, siblings, and other family members for...
2 November 2020
Family literacy programmes can be a lifeline for disadvantaged parents and caregivers who are struggling to support their children’s learning during the pandemic, write Anna Kaiper-Marquez and Esther Prins, in the latest UIL blog post.
A recent New Yorker / ProPublica...
8 October 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has forced countries around the world to implement distance, technology-enabled and other forms of home-based learning. Learning within families and across generations is key in this context. Learners who were unable to return to the classroom because of the pandemic instead...
18 December 2019
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with national and local partners in selected countries in Africa and South Asia, has completed a series of capacity-building workshops on family literacy and learning. Literacy stakeholders from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, the Gambia...
31 July 2019
In 2017, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) received generous financial support from the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany to implement a project whose aim is to empower vulnerable women and their families in sub-Saharan Africa by providing them with...
7 November 2018
Key literacy stakeholders in Ethiopia have been trained to develop and implement family and intergenerational literacy and learning approaches. The training took place in Adama, Ethiopia, from 29 September to 3 October 2018.
The five-day practice-oriented workshop engaged district...
23 October 2017
Intergenerational learning plays a fundamental role in fostering literacy, lifelong learning and sustainable development. In recognition of this, in 2016 the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) initiated a family literacy and learning project ...
1 December 2016
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has long promoted family learning as a bridge between formal, non-formal and informal learning to effectively engage communities in...