George Demetrion

Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education

In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a broad overview of some of the major trends and issues shaping the theories, practices, research traditions, and politics of adult literacy in the US since the 1980s. Suggests potential avenues through which to establish broad-based common grou

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780805846249
• ISBN-10: 0805846247
• Artikelnr.: 21386748

Autorenporträt

George Demetrion

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction: In Search of Common Ground Amidst
Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education. Adult Literacy and the
Quality of Life. Workforce Readiness in the Information Age. Workforce
Investment Act/National Reporting System (WIA/NRS). NLA Polemics: Criticism
and Counterarguments. Defining Outcomes and Impacts in Adult Literacy
Education: Problems and Conflicting Perspectives. Equipped for the Future:
Building the Infrastructure. EFF Standards: Linking Pedagogy and Policy in
Quest of a National Consensus. Research Traditions: Problems, Paradigms,
Polemics. Toward a Mediating Pedagogy of Adult Literacy Via Dewey's Model
of Inquiry and His Accompanying Metaphor of Growth. In Quest of a More
Perfect Union Through a Double-Vision Perspective of Hope and Skepticism.