Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education

Issues and Challenges
Herausgeber: Belzer, Alisa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas - reading, writing, and mathematics - as well as larger issues of literacy, learning, and adulthood. Each chapter focuses on what improving quality in the field might look like through the particular lens of the author's work. As a whole, the broad scope of topics and ideas addressed will raise the level of discussion, knowledge, and practice regarding quality in adult basic education. In this book, the term adult basic education refers to the broad range of services for adults who wish to improve their literacy and language skills, including beginning and intermediate writing, writing and numeracy, preGED, GED/Adult Secondary Education, and ESL instruction that takes place in a range of contexts including schools, community-based programs, and workplace development programs. The volume is organized around three themes: Accountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research Program Structures and Instruction Rethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts Coming at a time of increasing pressure to standardize, to be accountable, and to improve outcomes, and when calls for evidence-based practice are fueling stakeholders' interest in the relationship between research and practice at all levels of the system, Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education is particularly timely for scholars, graduate students, and professionals in the field of adult basic education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780415878067
• ISBN-10: 0415878063
• Artikelnr.: 35422502

Autorenporträt

Alisa Belzer

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I: Accountability
Standards
and the Use of Documentation and Research. A. Belzer
Introduction: Why Quality? Why Now? L. Condelli
Accountability and Program Quality: The Third Wave. S.G. Stein
Equipped for the Future and Standards-Based Educational Improvement: Achieving Results That Matter for Adult Learners. D. Greenberg
Tales From the Field: Struggles and Challenges of Conducting Ethical and Quality Research in the Field of Adult Literacy. M.B. Bingman
C. Smith
Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice in Adult Education. Part II: Program Structures and Instruction. H. Beder
Quality Introduction in Adult Literacy Education. A. Belzer
Volunteer One-to-One Tutoring: Critical Factors in Providing Quality Instruction. J.P. Comings
S. Cuban
Supporting Persistence of Adult Basic Education Students. J.P. Gee
Learning to Read as a Cultural Process. M.K. Gillespie
The Forgotten R: Why Adult Educators Should Care About Writing Instruction. M.J. Schmitt
M. Merson
The EMPower Project: Connecting Curriculum Development and Research. Part III: Rethinking Our Assumptions and Concepts. E. Hayes
Reconceptualizing Adult Basic Education and the Digital Divide. H.S. Wrigley
Beyond the Life Boat: Improving Language
Citizenship
and Training Services for Immigrants and Refugees. E.N. Askov
C. Kassab
E.L. Grinder
L.M. Semali
D. Weirauch
E.L. Saenz
B. Van Horn
Filling in the Black Box of Family Literacy: Implications of Research for Practice and Policy. S. Reder
Giving Literacy Away
Again: New Concepts of Promising Practice. V.L. Gadsden
The Adult Learner in Adult and Family Literacy: Gender and Its Intersection With Role and Context. G.A. Hull
M. Jury
J. Zacher
Possible Selves: Literacy
Identity
and Development in Work
School
and Community.