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Literacy For Life:
Adult Learners, New Practices
Hanna Arlene Fingeret and cassandra Drennon
Language and Literacy Series
Pub Date: 1997, 168 pages
Paperback: $21.95, ISBN: 0807736589
 
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"Literacy for Life moves well beyond run-of-the-mill research reports about adult literacy education.... The ‘framework for change’ advanced in this book represents a significant theoretical advance in our efforts to understand how people change their lives through literacy education. This is essential reading for anyone—scholar, practitioner, or policy maker—who is seriously committed to addressing educational inequity in our society."
—Tom Valentine, University of Georgia"Through carefully drawn evaluative research, the authors have taken one particular literacy program and given us a complex, rich, and sensitively detailed picture of what is required of adult learners, tutors, curriculum developers, program directors, and policy makers to accomplish any substantive educational transformation. This book is a must read for anyone concerned with the challenges, rewards, and disappointments of adult education."
—Sheryl Greenwood GowenGeorgia State University Through data-based theory development, Literacy for Life examines the process through which life change happens, based on in-depth profiles of five participants in an adult literacy education program. The authors explore why some adults seem to experience change more positively and profoundly than others. They also address the nature and role of shame in inhibiting change, and the role of the environment and community. This book places learners at the center of their own learning and change, rather than the educator or educational program. Most importantly, this book will help educators understand the complex process through which adults use literacy to change their lives, not just their test scores. |
