[Reading-hall-of-fame] Message from Tom Sticht

[Colin Harrison]

Hi Colin! Would you please send the following to the Reading Hall of Fame members. I appear to be having trouble doing this. Thank you very much!

Tom Sticht

Reading Hall of Fame Colleagues: December holidays are coming up: Mawlid au-Nabi (the Prophet’s birthday)-December 1, Hanukkah- December 13-20,Christmas-December 25, Kawanza-December 26,  so here is a free new e-book gift that I have prepared for literacy educators who would like to deepen their knowledge about adult literacy education in the United States, identify with those on whose shoulders adult literacy education stands, and affirm their dedication to this important and noble cause.

Here is an e-book for those interested in literacy development across the ages and across generations. The Trilogy provides a broad perspective of adult literacy education in brief notes each of which can be read in 5-10 minutes in a coffee or tea break. The e-book consists of online notes I have written over the last two decades reformatted into an e-book for use by college classes, literacy educators, and others.

The new e-book is entitled “The Struggle for Adult Literacy Education in America:

A Trilogy of Notes on History, Research, Policy, & Practice in Adult Literacy Education”. The e-book is 171 pages in pdf format and includes 48 notes, 58 photos, graphs, and other illustrations and 6 pages of references. The Trilogy includes three parts. Part 1: Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War; Part 2: From Oracy to Literacy: Investing in the Education of Adults to Improve the Educability of Children; and Part 3: Adult Education for Social Justice & Workforce Development [see below for contents of each of these three parts of the trilogy].

If you, or anyone you know, would like a copy of this free e-book just send me an email with your email address saying you would like to receive the e-book and I will send you an email with the e-book attached.  You can then feel free to use the e-book any way you think useful, and to share it with as many colleagues and other folks as you would like—a gift from you for the holidays!

Tom Sticht

Email: tgsticht at gmail.com<mailto:tgsticht at gmail.com>



The Struggle for Adult Literacy Education in America: A Trilogy Of

Notes on History, Research, Policy, & Practice in Adult Literacy Education

Part 1: Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War

Contents

1. Introduction to Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War

2. Former Slave Girl Fights Illiteracy in Civil War

3. Doughboys Learn to Read in World War I

4. Learning to Read with Private Pete & Sailor Sam

in World War II

5. The Reading Formula Helping Win World War II

6. Join the Conga Line for Literacy in World War II

7. Learning to Read in the “Forgotten War” of Korea

8. The Functional Literacy (FLIT) Program of the Vietnam War Era

9. Songs in the Literacy Lessons of the World Wars

10. VESL for Victory and Independence

11. Associationism, Behaviorism, Constructivism: The

ABCs of Adult Literacy Education

12. Paul Witty & Private Pete in World War II

13. A "Marshall Plan" for Adult Literacy in

Industrialized Nations

14. Swinging the Sword of Literacy in Iraq

15. Waiting for the Watermelons: Remembering 9/11



Part 2: From Oracy to Literacy and Back Again: Investing in the Education of Adults To Improve the Educability of Children



Contents

1. Oracy, Adult Literacy Research, and The Fourth-Grade Plunge

2. The “Reading Potential” Concept: From Vienna’s Rathaus to the Common Core State Standards

3. Oracy: The Bridge to Literacy From Parents to Their Progeny

4. New Report Confirms a Hundred Years of Professional Wisdom About Parent’s Role in Developing Children’s Literacy Skills

5. Mind the 30 Million Word Gap!

6. Black-White Differences in Oracy and Literacy: A Needed Conversation

7. The Plight of Those With Oracy Difficulties in America

8. Oracy as a Predictor of Workforce Success

9. Some Misunderstandings About Reading

10. Critiquing Constructs of Intelligence and Literacy

11. The "Skills" Versus "Knowledge" Debate and Adult Literacy Education

12. Confusing Ignorance With Illiteracy

13. Theoretically You Can’t Teach Adults to Read and Write:

But Just Keep On Doing It!



Part 3: Adult Education for Social Justice & Workforce Development

Contents

1.Cora Wilson Stewart and the Emancipation of Adult Illiterates

2.Three Black Women in the Struggle for Adult Literacy and Civil Rights

3.SELMA: The March From Literacy to Voting Rights

4.Ambrose Caliver and Freedom’s People

5.The Struggle for Social Justice: The Legacy of Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

6.How “McNamara’s Moron Corps” Fought the “Poverty War” and Won!

7.Literacy and Human Resources Development at Work: Getting Double Duty Dollars

8.Investing in the Education of Adults to Improve Their Employability and the Educability of Their Children9. Education and Training of Undereducated Adults in Hard Economic Times

10. Toward the 21st Century Orchestration of Learning Contexts for Adults

11.Cognitive Robotics, Literacy, and Unemployment

12.A Need to “Simultanealize” Adult Basic Skills Education and Vocational Training

13.Embedded or Integrated LLN Programs: Another Approach

14.Higher Education Credentials, Higher Skills, and Lost Purchasing Power: A Dilemma for Workforce Development Policy and Practice

15.Are We Educating People Into Poverty? The Workforce Development and Utilization Dilemma

16.On Workforce Development: Some Puzzling Findings From and For Adult Literacy Research

17.The Right to Read and to Work in Nontraditional Jobs for Women

18.Functional Context Education for Workforce Development

19.Boomerang Brings Déjà Vu: The Rediscovery of Functional Context Education in the 21st Century

20.Valuing America’s Workforce

References





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