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Martin, Rachel, Ed. – Focus on Basics, 1990
This document, designed to provide adult educators with information on innovative and effective teaching practices that involve participants in their own education, contains the following articles: (1) "Teaching about Aids: Responding to Culture" (Udin), which points out the hidden issues of culture in AIDS education and explains how to…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Community Development, Community Education
Download full textFocus on Basics, 1999
This volume consists of four issues that present best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used. Issue 1(A) on adult multiple intelligences has seven articles: "MI (Multiple Intelligences), the GED (General Educational Development), and Me (Martha Jean); "Understanding Multiple Intelligences:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – Focus on Basics, 2002
This volume of newsletters focuses on connecting research and practice in adult literacy programs. Issue A of August 2001 includes: "Techniques for Teaching Beginning-Level Reading to Adults" (Ashley Hager); "Beginning ESOL Learners' Advice to Their Teachers" (MaryAnn Cunningham Florez); "The Neurobiology of Reading and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Educators
Focus on Basics, 1997
Together, these four newsletters contain 36 articles devoted to adult literacy research and practice and the relationship between them. The following articles are included: "A Productive Partnership" (Richard J. Murnane, Bob Bickerton); "Welcome to 'Focus on Basics'" (Barbara Garner); "Applying Research on the Last Frontier" (Karen Backlund, Kathy…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – Focus on Basics, 2001
This set of four newsletters contains articles to help adult basic education and literacy teachers connect research and practice. The following are among the articles included: "The Effects of Continuing Goal-Setting on Persistence in a Math Classroom" (Pamela Meader); "Do the Cognitive Skills of Dropouts Matter in the Labor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
