[NLA] NIFL Board/NCL Meeting

[Catherine King]

Hello Marsha:

In response to your request to put forth the credentials of
candidate suggestions for the NIFL Board, I suggested
the author Jack Mezirow as an excellent candidate.

Dr. Mezirow has been involved with research specific
to adult education--having been an educator initially who
was drawn into the questions surrounding the
"consciousness raising" phenomenon in the sixties and
specifically Paulo Freire's and Ivan Ilich's work.

He is an award-winning author whose work is centered
around what calls Transformation Theory--specifically
addressing the qualitative changes adults go through in
the education process.

His two major works are "Transformative Dimensions of
Adult Learning" published in the early nineties, and lately
"Learning As Transformation, Critical Perspectives on a
Theory in Progress" by Jossey Bass where he teams up
with many noted researchers in the field of adult education
to develop and critique Transformation Theory.

Though I am sure there is more, Dr. Mezirow's long-term
interest and theoretical work, because it is directly aimed
at the questions surrounding adult education, makes him
uniquely qualified to balance a board that apparently
is, though unintentional, "stacked" on the side of childhood
and k-12 education.

Regards,

Catherine King
----- Original Message -----
From: Marsha Tait <mtait at literacyvolunteers.org>
To: NLA Listserv (E-mail) <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: [NLA] NIFL Board/NCL Meeting


> I have been reading the discussion on the Listserv about the NIFL Board
with
> interest.  Jon Randall will be following up with the Coalition Public
Policy
> Committee early next week, and I anticipate that the Cte. will make a
> recommendation of some sort to the full Coalition during its report at our
> meeting on 2/7.
>
> I would find it helpful if NLA subscribers have specific candidate names
to
> put forth that the candidates' credentials be described as fully as
> possible.  This information will make the decision-making of the Cte. and
> the Coalition more effective.
>
> Thank you.
>
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