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Autor/inn/en | Sticht, Thomas G.; McDonald, Barbara A.; Erickson, Paul R. |
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Institution | San Diego Consortium for Workforce Education and Lifelong Learning, CA. |
Titel | Passports to Paradise: The Struggle To Teach and To Learn on the Margins of Adult Education. |
Quelle | (1998), (125 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
Schlagwörter | Adult Basic Education; Adult Literacy; Basic Skills; Cultural Differences; Educational Improvement; Educational Policy; English (Second Language); Inner City; Literacy Education; National Programs; Needs Assessment; Participation; Participatory Research; Program Effectiveness; Social Bias; Subcultures; Teacher Researchers; Urban Education; California (San Diego) Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Kultureller Unterschied; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; nicht übertragen; Bedarfsermittlung; Teilnahme; Forschungstätigkeit; Subculture; Subkultur; Lehrerforschung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen |
Abstract | This report provides a 5-year perspective on the adult literacy education (ALE) system in the inner city of San Diego, California. Chapter 1 introduces the research. Chapters 2-5 in part 1, "The Struggle To Learn," contain the following: information about the difficulties of determining how many adults might benefit from basic skill education; introduction of the practice of having adult literacy students perform as researchers to discover barriers to and ways to increase participation in ALE; what happens after adults decide to go back to school; and how various instructional factors affect learning and the transfer of learning to the home and community. Chapters 6-8 in part 2, "The Struggle To Teach," include the following: reports by two teacher researchers on hardships of teaching and learning and insights of 17 teachers about the educational system; a teacher researcher's experiences in trying to change instruction in an English as a second language class and how the dynamics of students' lives and classroom turbulence affected her work; and challenges to teaching posed by diversity in a classroom due to cultural factors and different language and literacy skill levels. Chapters 9-11 in part 3, "The Struggle To Be Better," cover the following: activities federal policy makers and officials have undertaken to try to improve the ALE system nationally; activities in California to improve the ALE system; and rebuttals to news stories about the low intellectual abilities of disadvantaged youth and adults. (YLB) |
Anmerkungen | Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Inc., 2062 Valley View Blvd., El Cajon, CA 92019-2059 ($20). |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |