Faith Literacies / BeLiFS
Project Director: Professor Eve Gregory
Email: e.gregory (@gold.ac.uk)
This large ESRC-funded project investigates how children learn language and literacy in faith settings, in four communities relatively new to London (Polish Catholic, West African Pentecostalist, Tamil Hindu and Bangladeshi Muslim). The aims are to extend theoretical insights on literacy learning to the unique multilingual environments offered by different faith settings; to investigate and analyse the scope and nature of faith literacy activities in which children participate at home and in faith settings; to examine the impact of faith literacies on the shaping of participants' identities across different generations; to develop collaborative intergenerational ethnography; and to provide guidelines informing practitioners and policy-makers on children's literacies in different faith settings.
Publications, Presentations & Professional development documents will be added shortly