Literacy, language, and community publishing : essays in adult education
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Bibliographic Information
Literacy, language, and community publishing : essays in adult education
(Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp)
Multilingual Matters, c1995
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing work. Illustrated by accounts of first-hand experience, each chapter focuses on the practical business of achieving good learning and development opportunities for women and men of all ages. Whether working with refugees seeking confidence in spoken English, elderly people reflecting on life experience, or basic education students wishing to 'improve' their literacy, the principle with which the writers are engaged is that of democracy - a process which has lessons both uncomfortable and exciting for educators, as well as for learners. In direct opposition to current imperatives to standardisation and 'standards', the writers in this book argue for the effectiveness of deeper and more generous approaches to literacy and language: approaches which are at the heart of the community publishing movement in the UK. As Judy Wallis puts it: I am not arguing that the teaching of formal skills should be abandoned. Adult Basic Education students know better than anyone that it is important to spell correctly and to write in Standard English because people will discriminate against those who can't... The issue is not whether students need to acquire formal writing skills, but how they can acquire them most successfully.
Table of Contents
Notes on the Authors
Jane Mace: Introduction
SECTION I: WRITERS, PUBLISHING AND LEARNING
1. Stella Fitzpatrick: Sailing out from Safe Harbours: Writing for Publishing in Adult Basic Education
2. Rebecca O'Rourke: Can't, Won't or Don't: Readers and Writers in Adult Education
3. Michael Hayer and Alistair Thomson: Working with Words: Active Learning in a Community Writing and Publishing Group
SECTION II: FUNCTION AND CREATION
4. Judy Wallis: 'You Can't Write Until You Can Spell': Attitudes to Writing amongst Adult Basic Education Students
5. Helen Sunderland: Working on Writing with Refugees
6. Patricia Duffin: Writers in Search of an Audience: Taking Writing from Personal to Public
7. Jane Mace: Reminiscence as Literacy: Intersections and Creative Moments
SECTION III: LANGUAGE CHOICES AND INTENTIONS
8. Roxy Harris: Disappearing Language: Fragments and Fractures Between Speech and Writing
9. Wendy Moss: Controlling or Empowering? Writing Through a Scribe in Adult Basic Education
10. Sav Kyriacou: Oral History and Bilingual Publishing
11. Sean Taylor: Improving on the Blank Page
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