Expanding literacies : English teaching and the new workplace / edited by Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garay, Mary Sue, 1946-

Bernhardt, Stephen A.

Series:

SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary).

English language--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

English language--Technical English--Study and teaching.

English language--Business English--Study and teaching.

Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Vocational education--United States.

Vocational education.

Career education--United States.

Career education.

Literacy--United States.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

xxi, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Contents:

Section 1 Considering the New Literacies

1. Of Work and English / Mary Sue Garay 3

2. Toward a Working English for Twenty-First-Century Schools and Colleges / Mary Sue Garay 21

3. Work in Transition: Trends and Implications / Stephen A. Bernhardt, Bruce W. Farmer 55

4. Technology, Education, and Workplaces of the Future: A Parent's View / Patricia Sullivan 81

Section 2 The New Workplace in Context

5. Beyond Basics: Workplace Skills in the New Manufacturing Environment / Sally K. Robinson 99

6. Technical and Political Literacy: Training and Communicating in the Nuclear Power Industry / Carolyn Boiarsky, Sarah Liggett 119

7. Literacy Practices in the Healthcare Industry: The Challenge for Teachers / Paul R. Meyer, Patricia Teel Bates 133

8. Workers at Risk: Or, How You Read and Write Might Save Your Life / Beverly Sauer 153

Section 3 Classrooms Sensitive to the New Workplace

9. Transferring Writing Knowledge to the Workplace, Are We on Track? / Anne Beaufort 179

10. Adjusting School Writing Curricula to Reflect Expanded Workplace Writing / Larry Mikulecky 201

11. Tech-Prep Concepts and the English Classroom: All Students Must Be Work-Ready / Gregory Johnson, Robert Taylor 225

12. Secondary Technical Communication: Moving Beyond Vocational English / Mary Helen Steinauer, Janet Hyden 247

13. Workplace Literacy and the Two-Year College: Democratic Vistas / Katherine E. Staples, Pamela S. Ecker 265

14. Preparing All Students for the New Workplace Literacy: Avenues for English Instruction in High Schools and Colleges / David A. Jolliffe 285

15. Creating Partnerships for Literacy in the College Workplace / Libby Falk Jones 299

16. The Oregon Initiative: Pursuing America's Choice for High Skill Schooling / Del Schalock, Joyce M. Reinke 315

Section 4 Bridges between Education and Business

17. Partnerships: Intellectual and Institutional Relationships between Education and Business / Jeanne Marcum Gerlach, Dwane Kingery 341

18. Forging New Partnerships: Exemplary Business/School Coalitions / Helen Constantinides, Mary Sue Garay 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791436756

0791436764

OCLC:

37437615