Русская Ассоциация Чтения

Reading Association of Russia (RAR)

 

Website: http://www.rusreadorg.ru

President: Natalia Smetannikova: rusreadorg@gmail.com

RAR was founded in 1996 as a non-profit organization and the same year it was charted as a local council of IRA. In 2004 it got a status of an inter-regional Council of Russian Federation and in 2006 it was affiliated as a national Association of IRA. At present it unites 10 Local Councils from 6 out of 7 Federal Districts of Russia.

The members of RAR take READING and LITERACY as the questions of national priority and promote them in education and culture.

Our goals are:

• promote professional development of teachers and librarians in order to empower them to create competent readers
• encourage and maintain dialogue between educators, researchers , administration and others  to build a nation of readers

RAR was among the initiators and creators of National Program for Reading Promotion and Development in Russia adopted in 2006.

RAR runs several national and international projects: “Schools Where Literacy Thrives”, “Reading from Print and from Screen”, “From the Day of Knowledge to Literacy Day”, and a publishing project “Homo Legens”.

In association with IDEC, RAR held an international conference “Reading and Literacy in Education and Culture” in 2009.