REMAP: Reading for Meaning and Purpose
▶Summary
Today's universities have major concerns about student well-being. Meaningful reading practices help students find meaning and purpose in life, making them more resilient and meeting their emotion...
▶Objectives
Today's universities have major concerns about student well-being. Meaningful reading practices help students find meaning and purpose in life, making them more resilient and meeting their emotional, social, and civic needs. REMAP aims to provide educational resources for university and secondary school teachers to engage their students in meaningful reading. This will help make universities more inclusive and caring environments for students, including first-generation and vulnerable students.
▶Activities
REMAP will address students’ needs by planning, developing, testing, and evaluating (translating and publishing) innovative and inclusive resources for meaningful reading practices in higher education. Through these activities, the 4 universities involved, as well as the secondary education school together with 6 associate partners, advocate an awareness of social, civic, and emotional needs of emerging adults, and promote evidence-based meaningful reading practices at the university level.
▶Impact
REMAP will provide: 1) an open-access Meaningful Reading Manual with modules on conceptualisation, reading techniques and dialogical practices, student validated suggestions of texts 2) a peer-mentor service-learning program provided by upper-level university students: Reading Mentors Program 3) a validated course on Meaningful Reading 4) a validated Teacher Training Program These results will promote life-long reading habits as well as solid intellectual and emotional mindsets.