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Comparative study evaluating reading media clubs

Intercultural/international comparative study Germany-Israel for the evaluation of reading media clubs

Practising reading media clubs as a method for improving reading and media competence and social integration, by comparing two countries with different experiences concerning the integration of immigrants

Practising and further developing concepts for reading promotion as important incentives for social integration– particularly in secondary schools with a high proportion of migrants or located in socially deprived areas - constitutes a central objective of the project “Reading Media Clubs in Germany and Israel“. The project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)  is conducted by the Stiftung Lesen (Reading Foundation) in co-operation with the Center for Educational Technology (CET) in Tel Aviv, and guided by the principle of realising and evaluating each ten reading media clubs in Germany and Israel for a period of 30 months.

An intensive exchange of information and ideas is highly important in order to learn from one another and motivate multiplicators for the promotion of reading. In September 2009, a bi-national workshop for German and Israeli club managers held in Tel Aviv illustrated this: using computers for promoting reading was profoundly discussed, as were the different possibilities of providing children insights into classical child and youth literature.

‘We need more concepts for supporting schools, in connection with libraries and other institutions, in their systematic promotion of reading’ explained Corinna Brüntink, manager of the lifelong learning division at the BMBF, in her keynote speech at the conference.

We would like to support this objective by a cutting edge international exchange in the area of promoting reading and we are looking forward to the findings from the evaluation, which will be processed with close reference to a practical use.