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Weih, Timothy G.; Shaffer, Jennifer – Online Submission, 2013
What can family members learn about each other from writing together? What sense of community can develop between family members and across families as they write together? What areas of culture and community can be realized as families write together? These are the questions that fostered this current inquiry into a family writing project. Four…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Family Literacy
Siha, Alfred A. Z. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to explore how critical pedagogy can foster writing competency and critical consciousness among adult basic writing students in a community college writing classroom. To this end, critical pedagogy and related critical discourses were used to theoretically frame this study. These theories…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Adult Students
Beverstock, Caroline; McIntyre, Sue – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2008
Project Read at the San Mateo Public Library is one of 106 library programs in California helping adults improve their reading, writing, and communication skills. Like many adult literacy programs, Project Read trains and matches volunteer tutors with students. About 30% of the Project Read students are men in Project 90 (P-90), a residential drug…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Public Libraries, Library Services, Adult Literacy
Hill, Robert J.; Daigle, Elizabeth Anne; Graybeal, Lesley; Walker, Wayland; Avalon, Christian; Fowler, Nan; Massey, Michael W. – Online Submission, 2008
This study is a review and a critique of the 2008 U.S. "National Report on the Development and State of the Art of Adult Learning and Education" (ALE) prepared by the U.S. Commission for UNESCO and the U.S. Department of Education as a preparatory document for CONFINTEA VI, the 6th International Conference on Adult Education. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Politics of Education, Public Policy
Gillespie, Marilyn K. – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001
In Chapter Three, Marilyn Gillespie provides a summary of the research on writing instruction that has taken place over the last three decades. In her survey of writing research, she describes models of the writing process such as that developed by Flower and Hayes, who viewed writing as three cognitive writing processes: planning, text generation…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Adult Basic Education, Writing Processes