[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults

Sun Apr 15 01:48:20 BST 2018

Thanks Tom.
 Many fans of your  work down here is Oz.
 I’ve shared your links with with members of a listserve I manage.
 Brian Cambourne
On 15 Apr 2018, at 7:56 AM, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com<mailto:tgsticht at gmail.com>> wrote:

Free E-book for Spring 2018
Colleagues: Spring has sprung! Time for the blossoming of new ideas, thoughts, and growth-oriented good things! My 2017 e-book, The Struggle for Adult Literacy Education in America: A Trilogy Of Notes on History, Research, Policy, & Practice in Adult Literacy Education, available online at:  https://www.coabe.org/adult-education-history/, has gotten a good reception and use.

Now, my new, free, e-book, “Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults: The Transformation of Adult Basic Education in the United States”,  is available for those of you looking to while away some of your Spring moments by a little professional reading.  It ranges from my encounter with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his run for the U.S. Presidency in 1952, to descriptions of adult basic skills programs teams and I developed which helped transform ABE in America, to three New York Times articles by Albert “Al” Shanker, President of the American Federation of Teachers, about some of the ABE research I led and its powerful implications,  to the passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 with its support of contextualized and integrated education and training..

I also describe details of interagency coordination activities I performed on adult basic skills education with the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, and Labor as well as activities with several private foundations and organizations, including the Business Council for Effective Literacy (BCEL), Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), the Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), and the Work in America Institute (WIAI). The e-book discusses dissemination and advocacy efforts of mine, including Congressional testimony.
All this work helped bring about transformations in adult basic skills practices and policies that: (1) increase ABE in workplaces through Workplace Literacy programs; (2) support programs promoting the intergenerational transfer of literacy abilities from parents to their children, including two-generation,  Family Literacy programs; and (3) support a Functional Context Education approach to adult basic skills education with its emphasis on contextualized and integrated basic skills and occupational skills training and other integrated basic skills and content areas such as academic, health, parenting, financial, and civics education.
Hopefully, some of the instructional practices, advocacy, and lessons learned reported in the e-book will be of interest and use to those who are now, or will be later, working in adult basic skills education.
Anyone wanting a free copy of this e-book can get one by sending me an email:
tgsticht at gmail.com<mailto:tgsticht at gmail.com>
Spring into action!
Tom Sticht
E-book Title: Mainstreaming Marginalized Adults: The Transformation of  Adult Basic Education in America
Contents-Page Number
Introduction-4
1. Wars Reveal Need for Human Resources Development-7
2. How Well Do You Have to Read to Do a Job?-10
3. The FLIT (Functional LITeracy) Program-16
4. Evaluation and Dissemination of the FLIT Program-23
5. FLIT Goes National-26
6. Literacy and Human Resources Development at the  NIE-30
7. NIE Liaison With the Department of Defense on Adult Basic Education-33
8. A Year in Heidelberg, Germany and Back Again-37
9. Basic Skills in Defense-41

10. DoD Research on Listening and Reading Skills-44

11. A Time of Transition from the East to the West Coast-47

12. The Experimental Functional Skills Program (XFSP)-51

13. Cast-Off Youth (COY): Employing the Unemployable-56

14. Cast-Off Youth (COY): Functional Context Education (FCE)-59

15. Congressional Testimony on Learning and Literacy-63

16. Transformation: Workplace Literacy in  Adult Basic Education-67

17. The Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy-71

18. The Business Council for Effective Literacy-76

19. The Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)-81

20. The Work in America Institute and Job-Linked Basic  Skills Education-83
21. Workforce Development in a Community College-87
22. WOW on Literacy and Self-Sufficiency for Women-91
23. Transformation:  The Rise and Decline of Adult Basic Education in America-93
24. Transformation: From Functional Context Education to Contextual and Integrated Education-98
25. Transformation: From One Generation to Two Generation Programs for the   Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy-103
26. Moving Adult Basic Education from a Lifelong Learning to a Multiple Life Cycles Education Policy-108
27. Al Shanker, the AFT,  and the Move Toward a Multiple Life Cycles Education Policy-113
References-115
Appendix A. Adult Basic Skills Work in the United Kingdom-122
Appendix B. Adult Basic Skills Work in Canada-128
Appendix C. Twenty-Five Years on UNESCO’s International Literacy Prize Jury-133

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