1st Edition
Adult Education Teachers Designing Critical Literacy Practices
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It provides an in-depth look at the complexity of adult literacy education through the lenses of these teachers. An understanding of this complexity helps teachers design literacy practices in classrooms on a daily basis. This is an important book for there is considerable... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1 FRAMEWORK AND CONTEXTS -- 1 Exemplary Adult Literacy Educators -- 2 Literacy Acceleration Within Critical Frameworks: An Emergent Framework -- 3 Context: Adult Literacy Education in St. Louis: Window and Mirror -- PART 2 CASES OF ADULT EDUCATION TEACHERS -- 4 Designing Communities of Practice -- 5 Reflexive Teaching -- 6 Cultivating Voice -- 7 Designing Relevant and Engaging Instruction -- PART 3 CAses of ADuLT EDuCATIoN TEACHERS -- 8 Teaching the Codes of Power -- 9 Literacy Education as Activism -- 10 Ethics and English Teaching -- 11 Recognizing and Valuing Multiple Literacies -- PART 4 CASES oF ADuLT EDuCATIoN TEACHERS -- 12 Class Actions -- 13 Disrupting Cultural Models of Education -- 14 Inquiry and Perspective -- 15 The Struggle for Critical Literacy -- PART 5 CoNCLuSIoNS -- 16 Conclusions: Lessons Learned -- Appendix 1: Research Design and Methodology: Eliciting the “Wisdom of Practice” -- Appendix 2: Nomination Letter -- Appendix 3: Interview Protocol -- Appendix 4: Glossary of Terms and People -- Appendix 5: Adult Literacy Education Resources -- References -- Index
Biography
Rebecca Rogers and Mary Ann Kramer
