Research Catalog
Rethinking literacy education : the critical need for practice-based change
- Title
- Rethinking literacy education : the critical need for practice-based change / B. Allan Quigley.
- Author
- Quigley, B. Allan (Benjamin Allan)
- Publication
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers
- ©1997.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LC151 .Q85 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing on more than twenty-five years of his teaching and administering of literacy programs, and also on his experience forming literacy policy and conducting research, Quigley reveals some unrecognized truths about who illiterate people are and what they need and want in the way of educational opportunities. Advocating a refocus of attention on the learner, Quigley also points to the practitioners currently working in the field as the key to improving the effectiveness of literacy education. This guide gives those adult educators and trainers concrete suggestions and alternatives for their work, and provides them with historical and evolutionary frameworks that they can use to shape a new philosophy of adult literacy and improve their practice.
- Series Statement
- The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
- Uniform Title
- Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and indexes.
- Contents
- Part one: illiteracy through society's eyes. Myths, rhetoric, and stereotypes about literacy ; The popular perspective and the media ; The political perspective and literacy programs -- Part two: how teachers and administrators view illiteracy. Rethinking educational approaches ; What textbooks can communicate -- Part three: engaging nonparticipants and dropouts. Understanding attrition and improving retention ; Why many resist, and ways to recruit them -- Part four: takin action to transform literacy education. Grounding programs and policies in practical knowledge ; Literacy educators as leaders of effective change -- Resource A: prior schooling and self-perception inventory -- Resource B: adult education organizations and associations.
- ISBN
- 078790287X
- 9780787902872
- LCCN
- 96021258
- OCLC
- ocm34767462
- 34767462
- SCSB-2106429
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library