Talking About Literacy - Mace, Jane
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"Talking About Literacy" re-examines dominant notions of what literacy is and challenges the reactive solution to the issue of simply teaching the illiterate basic reading and writing skills. The subject of literacy contains enormous emotional and political associations, and the job of literacy educator often involves changing attitudes and challenging prejudices. Adult literacy education means not only teaching courses in "basic skills," or "language support," but also designing strategies which encourage people to see that these courses may meet their own interests--and educating them and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"Talking About Literacy" re-examines dominant notions of what literacy is and challenges the reactive solution to the issue of simply teaching the illiterate basic reading and writing skills. The subject of literacy contains enormous emotional and political associations, and the job of literacy educator often involves changing attitudes and challenging prejudices. Adult literacy education means not only teaching courses in "basic skills," or "language support," but also designing strategies which encourage people to see that these courses may meet their own interests--and educating them and others to rethink their own negative attitudes toward "illiteracy." This book looks in detail at five principles which Jane Mace suggests are central to the education of people who often can read, but wish they could read better; or who can technically write, but have a desire to do so with more expression and coherence. These principles focus on five themes: "context, inquiry, authorship, equality" and "community," which take seriously the view that adult students are writers as well as readers, and that they have an entitlement to be read, as well as to read others. "Talking About Literacy" relates a set of ideas about literacy and learning to a range of examples from adult education and training, addressing the social contexts in which people read and write, whether for recreation or for academic and vocational purposes. While addressed primarily to those educating adults in the critical and confident use of reading and writing, this book will also be of interest to anyone who wishes to examine underlying assumptions about literacy and illiteracy.
Autorenporträt
Jane Mace has worked for twenty years in adult literacy and community education. At Cambridge House Literacy Scheme, as tutor-organiser and then Director, she contributed to the shaping of policy in adult literacy programmes during the early years of the adult literacy campaign in the UK. At the Lee Community Education Centre, Goldsmiths' College, she co-ordinated a programme of courses and projects in literacy, women's education, reminiscence work and workplace training. As Senior Lecturer in Community Education at Goldsmiths' College, her work now concerns research and development in the same areas