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Literacy, Language and Community Publishing - Essays in Adult Education (Paperback)
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Literacy, Language and Community Publishing - Essays in Adult Education (Paperback)
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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.
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