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Conflicting paradigms in adult literacy education [electronic resource] : in quest of a U.S. democratic politics of literacy / George Demetrion.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: xiv, 320 pISBN:
  • 9781410611857
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : in search of common ground amidst conflicting paradigms in adult literacy education -- 2. Adult literacy and the quality of life -- 3. Workforce readiness in the Information Age -- 4. Workforce Investment Act/National Reporting System (WIA/NRS) -- 5. NLA polemics : criticism and counterarguments -- 6. Defining outcomes and impacts of adult literacy education : enduring problems and conflicting perspectives -- 7. Equipped for the future : building the infrastructure -- 8. EFF standards : linking pedagogy and policy in quest of a national consensus -- 9. Research traditions : problems, paradigms, polemics -- 10. Toward a mediating pedagogy of adult literacy via Dewey's model of inquiry and his accompanying metaphor of growth -- 11. In quest of a more perfect union through a double-vision perspective of hope and skepticism.
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First published by Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and indexes.

1. Introduction : in search of common ground amidst conflicting paradigms in adult literacy education -- 2. Adult literacy and the quality of life -- 3. Workforce readiness in the Information Age -- 4. Workforce Investment Act/National Reporting System (WIA/NRS) -- 5. NLA polemics : criticism and counterarguments -- 6. Defining outcomes and impacts of adult literacy education : enduring problems and conflicting perspectives -- 7. Equipped for the future : building the infrastructure -- 8. EFF standards : linking pedagogy and policy in quest of a national consensus -- 9. Research traditions : problems, paradigms, polemics -- 10. Toward a mediating pedagogy of adult literacy via Dewey's model of inquiry and his accompanying metaphor of growth -- 11. In quest of a more perfect union through a double-vision perspective of hope and skepticism.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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