YOUTH LITERACY AND LEARNING SPACES

This book has reported on findings emerging from our efforts to answer three central research questions. How can early school leavers and disaffected young adults in remote communities be reengaged with learning? How can literacy be acquired, maintained and transmitted outside school settings? How can learning and literacy be fostered across the lifespan? Our search for answers to these questions involved a rich and productive collaboration with a range of Indigenous young people from remote communities, many of whom were themselves concerned with these questions. That collaboration resulted in an ethnographic study of learning, highlighting the many ways in which