[NLA] Vol. II, Adult Learning and Literacy

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Susan,

How wonderful of you to speak up.  I read "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in 1975 
for my master's degree.  Freire has always stayed with me.  I worked on the 
NCSALL project with Sophie Degener  (see chapter notes).  What she has given 
us is an absolute gift.  It is non-polemical, meaning non-angry.  She uses 
simple words.  She includes a chart, a continuum of practices.  She shows how 
it can be done.  This is the ONLY non--angry piece I have ever read.  

The Gillespie piece is even more extraordinary as it links liberatory 
thinking (Brian Street, multiple literacies, all that) to the development of 
voice.  I have read a couple of other pieces on adult literacy writing, one 
in "The Right to Literacy" about a Maine fishing village which was absolutely 
charming and again right on target.  Thanks for your contribution and your 
appreciation of Freire.

Andrea