Rethinking Literacy Education: The Critical Need for Practice-Based Change

by B. Allan Quigley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078790287X
• ISBN13: 9780787902872
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"