Hidden Logic: Reproduction and Resistance In Adult Literacy And Adult Basic Education

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Allan Quigley
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Jiménez

Adult Basic Education (ABE), namely English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the United States has been understood and assessed as the mastering of skills increasingly aimed at meeting the demands of the workplace. This ethnographic case study examines how the literacy practices a Latino woman engages in through her participation in an ABE-ESOL class relate to her developing identities of mother, student and citizen. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the findings demonstrate the contextual nature of adult literacy, showing how learners appropriate available tools and texts and enact purposeful and meaningful literacy practices, which traditional ABE assessment dismiss or do not account for. Implications for adult literacy pedagogy and research are discussed.


1988 ◽  
Vol 170 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Macdonald Fueyo

The demands placed upon Adult Basic Education programs in the United States are more rigorous and involve more people than ever before in our history. Government-supported programs as well as private ones capture in microcosm the best and worst in American education. Literacy education is modeled along a continuum moving from a technical conception of literacy, wherein students mark progress by numbers of completed worksheets, to a conception of literacy as praxis, or critical literacy, wherein students construct meaning for themselves and effect change in their lives. These competing models are contrasted, and special emphasis is given to one adult basic literacy organization that is managing to humanize the process. In this program founded in 1973, the students' own words demonstrate the liberating nature of literacy learning that puts into practice the best of current understandings in the field. The challenge of the next decades demands a critical literacy that is consistent with participatory democracy. The convergence of social learning theories, process teaching, critical consciousness, and adult literacy offers constructive responses to the epidemic incidence of illiteracy in our society.


2017 ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Moira Greene

This article describes a Framework that can be used to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in adult learning. The Framework promotes practice informed by three strands important to adult literacy work: social theories of literacy, social- constructivist learning theory and principles of adult learning. The Framework shows how ve key factors can be utilised to establish existing learner knowledge onto which new learning can be built, identify relevant and effective learning objectives, and provide a means of evaluating learning. Keywords: Assessment. Constructivist learning. Learning difference. Social practice.   O modelo CABES (Clare Adult Basic Education Service) como um instrumento para o ensino e a aprendizagem Resumo O artigo descreve um modelo que pode ser usado para ajudar a transpor a distância entre a teoria e a prática na educação de adultos. O modelo encoraja a prática, informada por três constituintes importantes no trabalho de letramento com o adulto: as teorias sociais do letramento, a teoria social-construtivista da aprendizagem e os princípios da aprendizagem do adulto. O modelo aponta como cinco fatores-chave podem ser empregados para estabelecer o conhecimento já existente do aprendente, a partir do qual novas aprendizagens podem ser construídas; a identificar objetivos de aprendizagem relevantes e efetivos, e como prover um meio de avaliar a aprendizagem. Palavras-chave: Avaliação. Aprendizagem construtivista. Aprendizagem da diferença. Prática social.   El marco CABES (Clare Adult Basic Education Service) como herramienta para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje Resumen Este artículo describe un marco que se puede utilizar para ayudar a cerrar la brecha entre la teoría y la práctica en el aprendizaje de adultos. El marco promueve la práctica informada por tres líneas importantes para el trabajo de alfabetización de adultos: las teorías sociales de la alfabetización, la teoría del aprendizaje social-constructivista y los principios del aprendizaje de adultos. El marco muestra cómo se pueden utilizar factores clave para establecer el conocimiento previo del alumno sobre el que se puede construir un nuevo aprendizaje, identificar objetivos de aprendizaje relevantes y efectivos, y proporcionar un medio para evaluar el aprendizaje. Palabras clave: Evaluación. Aprendizaje constructivista. Diferencia de aprendizaje. Práctica social.


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