Annual review of adult learning and literacy. Volume 2 / ed. John Comings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

J-B Annual Review of Adult Learning & Literacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francsico : Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an encompassing review that addresses all aspects of literacy (reading, numeracy, and technological literacy, for example) with a global perspective. It connects the objectives of literacy education with broader areas of social welfare, including health, employment and political and economic empowerment.The second volume in a new annual series, this unique publication for practitioners in the field of adult learning and literacy collects in one yearly volume the best new knowledge and practice advances identified by the prestigious, Harvard-based and federally-funded literacy c

Contents:

Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy Volume 2; Contents; Foreword; Preface; The Editors; The Contributors; 1 The Year 1999 in Review; 2 Making Sense of Critical Pedagogy in Adult Literacy Education; 3 Research in Writing: Implications for Adult Literacy Education; 4 Time to Reframe Politics and Practices in Correctional Education; 5 Building Professional Development Systems in Adult Basic Education: Lessons from the Field; 6 Adult Learning and Literacy in Canada; 7 Organizational Development and Its Implications for Adult Basic Education Programs

Resources on Organizational DevelopmentName Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Includes charts.

ISBN:

9786610351039

9781280351037

1280351039

9780470623053

0470623055

9780470249307

0470249307

9780787959951

0787959952

OCLC:

469668398