Mother Tongue – How to assess your likelihood of success

Posted on by Nadine Bailey

One of the things I did as part of my research was to summarise the factors that contributed to a family being able to teach and maintain their mother tongue in their children while living / being educated in an English dominant environment. First I present the table of factors, and then I present myself … Continue reading Mother Tongue – How to assess your likelihood of success

when the library is more than a library

Posted on by Nadine Bailey

In some ways libraries have never just been about the books or the building.  Even since the first libraries they've been about a certain idealism, a world view, a concept of teaching, learning, enquiry, culturalisation, what ever you may call it. So yesterday it shouldn't have taken me by surprise with Ms. S asked me … Continue reading when the library is more than a library