Making It Stick. The Post Literacy phase of the Literacy for Life Foundation Aboriginal adult literacy campaign

Abstract

Across western and north western New South Wales, there are dozens of small to medium size towns, many of them including Aboriginal communities as a significant part of their population. In 2012, the authors began working with a national Aboriginal steering committee on a pilot project in one of these towns, Wilcannia. The aim was to investigate whether a mass adult literacy campaign, based on the Cuban Yes, I Can! (or Yo, Si Puedo!) model, could be effective in increasing the rate of adult literacy in these communities (Boughton, Ah Chee, Beetson, Durnan, & LeBlanch, 2013).