[AAACE-NLA] GED programs with a popular education approach

[gdemetrion@msn.com]

Thank you Lloyd for your comments,

The enhancement that Ellie's important study identify with GED students also have applicability across the board even at the beginning stages of literacy development; namely, incremental, and sometimes life changing growth in a wide array of life sectors.  I attempted to spell this out in a monograph on adult literacy in Hartford, which can be accessed here:  http://www.nald.ca/FULLTEXT/George/Motivate/cover.htm, which broadly parallel other ethnographic and case-study work on adult literacy.  Let's hope that this type of research will flourish more widely and attain the level of legitimacy and receptiveness it deserves.

George Demetrion

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From: Lloyd David
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] GED programs with a popular education approach


The study showed that changes in students' lives went beyond improvements in
basic skill development in the following ways: 1. increase self- efficacy,
self-confidence, and self sufficiency at work: 2. improved development in
maturity and flexibility of learning styles; and 3. increased participation
in meetings, better communications and improved relationships at work. 50%
of the students were found to have become more self directed learners
according to the scale developed by Dr. Robert Kegan of the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, the principle investigator.  

Lloyd David, EdD.
Creative Workplace Learning
311 Washington Street
Brighton, MA 02135
Tel :  617-746-1260  
FAX: 617-782-0136

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