1st Edition
Talking About Literacy Principles and Practice of Adult Literacy Education
By Jane Mace
Copyright 1992
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Talking about Literacy re-examines dominant notions of what litreracy is, and challenges the problem-solution reflex to the issue (the problem is illiteracy: the solution is more literacy). Literacy has enormous emotional and political associations, and the job of literacy educator often concerns changing attitudes and challenging prejudices - whether in the form of publicity strategies,... Read more
Introduction Part I Issues 1 PROBLEMS OF REPRESENTATION 2 THE TRUTH FOR NOW 3 LISTENING TO THE QUESTIONS, TALKING ABOUT LITERACY 4 THE TEACHER-RESEARCHER 5 AUTHORS AND IDENTITY 6 READERS EQUAL WRITERS 7 VOCATIONS AND VOCATIONALISM 8 CONCLUSION
Biography
Jane Mace has worked for twenty years in adult literacy and community education. At Cambridge House Literacy Scheme, as tutor-organiser and then Director, she contributed to the shaping of policy in adult literacy programmes during the early years of the adult literacy campaign in the UK. At the Lee Community Education Centre, Goldsmiths’ College, she co-ordinated a programme of courses and projects in literacy, women’s education, reminiscence work and workplace training. As Senior Lecturer in Community Education at Goldsmiths’ College, her work now concerns research and development in the same areas
`For those of us who chooose to continue picking away at the knotty problem of promoting broader definitions of literacy, this book provides some useful reference points and welcome illustrations.' - Adults Learning Vol 4 No.3 November 92
`I shall be recommending this stimulating book to my FE teacher-trainees this year, and not just to those who are contemplating a career in Literacy Education...Ultimately though, Jane Mace's them is central to all education and indeed to life: giving meaning to experience, communicating those meanings to others, the endless struggle in the interstices of language and thought - these are the things that identify and unite us as truly human.' Peter Lloyd, Vocational Aspect of Education - June 1992
`With the current increasing emphasis on vocational provision and `functional' education, and te moves away from encouraging students' creativity, this book presents some interesting and challenging ideas.' - General Educator
