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Brunette, Pauline, Ed. – 1980
Designed for use as supplementary reading material, the reader is a collection of short stories (1 to 3 pages in length) developed from interviews with 12 Chippewas living in the Minnesota areas of Cass Lake, Leech Lake, Inger, Pine Point, and White Earth. The interviewees represent various occupations including teacher, school principal, nurse,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Download full textCalamai, Peter – 1987
This booklet contains 29 articles about literacy that originally appeared in newspapers across Canada during September 1987. Many are based on the extensive findings of a national literacy survey of 2,398 Canadian adults commissioned by Southam Inc. The survey provided the first real statistics about the state of literacy in the country;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Needs
1987
This special report is a look at illiteracy across Canada and in Saskatchewan. It includes stories by Peter Calamai, a national correspondent with Southam News, and by Regina Leader-Post reporters Kevin O'Connor, Zena Olijnyk, Ron Petrie, and Beverley Spencer. The publication also includes stories by the Canadian press. Calamai's stories are the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, American Indians
Bradshaw, Delia, Ed. – 1998
This book contains eight case studies of critical literacy in action in Victoria, Australia. The following papers are included: "Preface" (John Dewar Wilson); "Introduction" (Delia Bradshaw); "Making the Time and Space for Critical Literacy: Why Bother?" (Barbara Comber); "Questioning Text: Critical Literacy in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Hautecoeur, Jean-Paul, Ed. – 1990
This publication contains 21 reports that explore and document literacy. Following an introduction (Jean-Paul Hautecoeur), the first part deals with literacy in North America. Reports are "Functional Illiteracy and the 'New Literacy'" (Jean-Pierre Velis); "Literacy Policy in Quebec: An Historical Overview" (Jean-Paul…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Barton, David, Ed.; Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Ivanic, Roz, Ed. – 2000
This book contains 13 papers on situated literacies and reading and writing in context. The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Denny Taylor); "Introduction: Exploring Situated Literacies"; "Literacy Practices" (David Barton, Mary Hamilton); "Expanding the New Literacy Studies: Using Photographs To Explore…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
