Our Mission Statement

The purposes of the New Zealand Literacy Association shall be:

  • to encourage and actively promote enjoyment of literacy

  • to encourage literacy learning

  • to encourage research in literacy education

  • to publish results of significant literacy investigations and practices to foster continuing literacy education programmes for teachers

  • to encourage and support the work of reading/literacy councils in New Zealand

  • to provide and promote meetings and conferences on literacy

  • to foster national and international co-operation in the field of literacy

  • to advise and make representations on matters related to literacy