[AAACE-NLA] Sticht books

[Andrea Wilder]

Tom,

This is just wonderful.  Thank you so much for your generosity.

Andrea
On May 5, 2006, at 8:07 PM, tsticht at znet.com wrote:

> Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that the National Adult Literacy
> Database (NALD) has made available two early books by colleagues and 
> myself
> that have had considerable influence on the field of adult literacy
> education in several industrialized nations.
>
> One book is called Reading for Working and was influential in promoting
> workplace literacy and the National Workplace Literacy Program of the 
> U. S.
> Department of Education and functional context education as 
> recommended by
> the focus on contextualized education in the Secretary of Labors 
> Commission
> on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). It also presents data on the
> relationships of parent’s education to the literacy achievement of 
> their
> children.
>
> The second book, Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model was 
> reviewed by
> Dr. William Blanton of Indiana University and he said that it was "…the
> most significant contribution made on reading and listening in recent 
> years
> Indeed, it is a reference shelf item." (note this was circa 1974!).  
> It is
> the first book applying modern cognitive science to literacy 
> development
> with children and adults. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. refers to information from 
> the
> book as "Sticht’s Law’ in his book on The Schools We Need and Why We 
> Don’t
> Have Them (1996) and his most recent book The Knowledge Deficit (2006)
> cites the book for its focus on predicting reading development from
> listening ability .
>
> Following are citations for the two books, web sites, and tables of
> contents. They can be downloaded for free in either html or pdf 
> formats.
> Enjoy!
>
> Tom Sticht
>
>
> Reading for Working: A Functional Literacy Anthology
>
> 1. Sticht, Thomas G. (1975). Reading for Working. Retrieved May 05, 
> 2006,
> from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/rfw/cover.htm
>
> Table of Contents
> Chapter
>
> 1.	Introduction
>
> Part I
> Determining Functional Literacy Demands of Jobs
> Introduction
> 2.	Readability of Job Materials
> 3.	Performing Job Reading Task
> 4.	Literacy in Relation to Job Knowledge, Job Performance, and 
> Supervisor
> Ratings
> 5.	Using Personnel Data Files to Estimate Reading Demands of Jobs
> 6.	Commentary on Methodologies for Determining Literacy Demands of Jobs
>
> Part II
> Reducing Discrepancies Between Literacy Skills of
> Personnel and Literacy Demands of Jobs
> Introduction
> 7.	Methods for Reducing Literacy Demands of Jobs.
> 8.	Functional Literacy Training: A Case Study
>
> Part III
> Collected Papers on Functional Literacy
> Introduction
> 9.	Reading and Career Education
> 10.	A Career-Oriented Literacy Training System for the Armed Services
> 11.	Needed: A Functional Literacy Curriculum for the Secondary School
>
>
> 2. Sticht, Thomas G., Beck, Lawrence J., Hauke, Robert N., Kleiman, 
> Glenn
> M., & James, James H.(1974). Auding and Reading. Retrieved May 05, 
> 2006,
> from http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/sticht/aar/cover.htm
>
> Auding and Reading: A Developmental Model
>
>
> Contents
>
> I.	Introduction
> 	Language and Learning
> 	Previous Reviews on These Topics
> 	A Call for Theory
> 	And Yet Another Literature Review
> 	Overview of the Report
>
> II.	The Developmental Model of Auding and Reading
>
> III.	The Languaging Process
> 	The Nature of the Conceptual Base
> 	The Acquisition of the Conceptual Base
> 	The Acquisition of Languaging Ability
> 	The Phonological System
> 	Semantics: Individual Words as Holophrases
> 	Semantics: Meanings of Individual Words
> 	Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
>
> IV.	The Development of Listening/Looking and Auding/Reading Processes
> 	Hearing and Seeing: The Continuity of Organismic and Environmental
> Information
> 	The Memory System
> 	The Development of Looking and Listening as Attentive Processes
> 	Auding as Listening
> 	Auding as Languaging
> 	Auding as a Tracking Task
> 	Reading as Looking
> 	Reading as Languaging
> 	Auding and Reading Compared
>
> V.	A Review of Literature Related to Four Hypotheses Derived From the 
> Model
> 	Hypothesis 1
> 	Hypothesis 2
> 	Hypothesis 3
> 	Hypothesis 4
>
> VI.	Summary and Implications
> 	Review of the Hypotheses
> 	Some Accomplishments and Limitations of the Modeling Effort
> 	Implications
>
>
>
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