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Download full textBass, Bruce; And Others – 1996
This volume is a sampling of 18 pieces of writing by students in a workplace education writing course called Advanced Writing. It contains the following poems, fiction, and nonfiction written in and outside of class: "Artist" (Bruce Bass); "Tuesday Morning" (Kathy Colon); "House" (Lee Christian); "Life" (Alice Chapin); "A Cat Story" (Jane E.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Creative Writing, Literacy Education
Frank, Fiona, Ed. – 1992
In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had all participated in employer-funded adult education courses offered partly or entirely during work hours attended a weekend retreat in the north of England. They spent the weekend talking and writing about their experiences with work-based learning,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Corporate Education, Creative Writing
Workers Education Program, Inc., Boston, MA. – 1996
This collection of writings is the culmination of students' study in the Worker Education Program's (WEP) workplace literacy classes. The WEP is a joint labor/management project of the Service Employees International Union Local 285 and unionized health care employers in Massachusetts that offers a range of education, job training, and career…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Continuing Education, Creative Writing
Carroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
These two volumes contain research papers and personal reflections developed as culminating projects by adult students involved in workplace literacy classes in nursing homes, hospitals, and home care agencies. The first volume contains 18 papers: "What You Need to Know about Cancer" (Grace Bopst); "What Nursing Assistants Need to Know about Heart…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Attitudes, Cancer, Chronic Illness
Writers at Work, 1997
This document consists of four consecutive issues of a literary magazine written by adult workplace literacy students of the Casco Bay (Maine) Partnership for Workplace Education. The Partnership was a federally funded workplace literacy program that provided customized basic skills education at seven business sites in the Portland area, serving…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Education Work Relationship, Federal Programs
McBride, Pamela G., Ed.; Johnson, Margaret L., Ed. – 1992
These four collections of essays are the work of adult participants in the Workforce Instructional Network (WIN), a National Workplace Literacy Project. The authors are workers who participated in classes for reading/writing improvement and business writing and clerical skills. The finished pieces resulted from the following: group discussion of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Exploration, Computers
Continuing Education Inst., Needham, MA. – 1998
This document contains 48 pieces of writing that were authored by employees of six different businesses who participated in an adult diploma program. A variety of genres are represented, including poems, personal narratives, book reviews, essays, letters, and fiction. The works are grouped under the following broad headings: goals, freedom,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Creative Writing
Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago. Chicago Teachers' Center. – 1996
This document is an anthology of participant writings from the Worker Education Program, which is a holistic workplace literacy program developed through a partnership among Northeastern Illinois University (NIU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Workers Union (ACTWU). The document begins with a brief overview of the Worker Education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Anthologies, Asian Americans
