Rethinking Literacy Education: The Critical Need for Practice-Based Change » (1st Edition)

B. ALLAN QUIGLEY is associate professor and regional director of adult education at the Pennsylvania State University Center for Continuing and Graduate Education, Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

1998 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult EducationIn this thought-provoking book, Quigley offers a new view of illiteracy that starts with the learner and takes into account a broad array of work, family, and cultural considerations. This guide gives adult educators and trainers working in the field concrete suggestions and alternatives for their work that they can use to shape a new philosophy of adult literacy and improve their practice.

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Offers practitioners of literacy training concrete suggestions for program improvement, as well as addressing larger issues that go beyond everyday literacy practice, including the stereotyping of the illiterate in the media and in social policy, and its consequences. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.