[AAACE-NLA] Journals and magazines

[Andrea Wilder]

Tom, thanks!

Do you have the dates and time for Connecticut?

Andrea

On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:53 AM, tsticht at znet.com wrote:

>
> Andrea: There are many online resources that you can consult to keep 
> up with
> what is going on in adult literacy education. In the U.S. you can look 
> at
> Proliteracy Worldwide's web site (www.proliteracy.org), the National
> Institute for Literacy web site (www.nifl.gov) with its many Discussion
> Lists and lincs to different regions of the nation, and the U.S. 
> Department
> of Education (www.ed.gov), Office of Adult and Vocational Education
> (OVAE)Office of Adult Education and Literacy. Of course, the National
> Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
> (www.ncsall.net) also contains lots of information in research reports 
> and
> the journal Focus on Basics.
>
> In Canada the National Adult Literacy Database web site (www.nald.ca) 
> is the
> premier online site for information on what is going on across Canada. 
> The
> New Zealand Literacy Portal maintained by Workbase 
> (www.workbase.org.nz)
> provides access to hundreds of reports from various nations regarding
> aspects of adult language, literacy, and numeracy education. 
> Similarly, the
> UNESCO literacy portal gives lincs to many reports about adult literacy
> education (www.unesco.org). In the UK the National Institute for Adult
> Continuing Education (www.niace.org.uk) and the National Research and
> Development Center for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (www.nrdc.org.uk).
>
> The International Reading Association (www.reading.org) publishes the
> journal Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
>
> A problem I have found with all this is that there is an overwhelming 
> number
> of reports, articles, newsletters, etc and trying to keep up with it 
> all is
> impossible for me, and I suspect this is true for most others in the 
> adult
> literacy field, too.
>
> To help myself and others I developed a workshop called Adult Literacy
> Education in Industrialized Nations that covers a whole lot of the 
> current
> activities in research, practice, and policy in several nations (see
> below). I recently (Oct. 22) completed giving the one day workshop back
> east close to your area. It was in Vermont at the beautiful Equinox 
> hotel
> and resort in Manchester Village. The foliage was magnificent. As a
> consequence of that workshop I have received an invite to speak next 
> March
> in Connecticut. This way I can learn what is going on in different 
> places
> and provide a summary of the most recent important activities going on 
> in
> adult literacy education for those folks who cannot spend a lot of time
> surfing the web, downloading, and synthesizing lots of the thousands of
> reports out in cyperspace!
>
> I hope this is helpful for you in your quest to keep up with what is 
> going
> on in adult literacy education.
>
> Tom Sticht
>
> Adult Literacy Education in Industrialized Nations
> A Workshop with Tom Sticht
>
> This one day, six hour, information-packed workshop typically runs from
> around 9am to 3:30pm with breaks in the morning and afternoon and a 
> half
> hour lunch period. The presentation is extensively illustrated with 
> photos
> and graphics. It is divided into four Parts:
>
> Part 1: Issues relating to the scale of need and participation in adult
> provision. International comparisons of adult literacy. How many 
> adults do
> governments say need language, literacy, and numeracy (LLN) education? 
>  How
> many adults think they need LLN education?  Why the differences between
> government and adult's perception of LLN skills? How many adults 
> actually
> engage in LLN? Why don't more adults with poor LLN seek education? 
> What is
> being done to increase participation in LLN provision, especially by 
> the
> hardest-to-reach adults?
>
> Part 2 	 Major Program Thrust #1: Integrated, Embedded, Contextualized 
> LLN
> Provision to Increase Participation, Retention, and Progression.  A 
> review
> of professional wisdom, scientific research, and case studies in 
> Australia,
> Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States for
> teaching LLN within the functional contexts of adult learner's  work,
> social, family, and political lives.
>
> Part 3 	Understanding Systems of LLN Provision: Australia, Canada, 
> Ireland,
> New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. Case Study on 
> increasing
> participation in the United Kingdom (England): From the Right to Read 
> To The
> Skills for Life Strategy: A Personal Perspective. Policies and 
> initiatives
> to improve participation, retention, persistence, progression, and
> achievement. Improving accountability by emphasizing multiple returns 
> to
> investments in LLN provision: getting "Double Duty Dollars" and  "More
> Power for the Pound".
>
> Part 4 	Major Program Thrust #2: Preventing literacy problems in the 
> next
> generation. Promoting the intergenerational transfer of  literacy from
> parents to their progeny. IQ, brain science, and adult literacy:  
> debunking
> myths that hold adult literacy education back. Understanding the role 
> of
> parent's education, language and literacy  development on the 
> subsequent
> language and literacy development of their children. Moving from a 
> lifelong
>  (one life cycle) to a multiple life cycles policy for education and
> learning of adults and children.
>
>
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