[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Honoring Veteran Literacy Teachers and Adult Learners on Veterans Day

[Brian Cambourne]

Many thanks Tom.
 I’ll be sharing the link with lots of American and Australian colleagues.
 Brian Cambourne

On 10 Nov 2020, at 5:56 am, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com<mailto:tgsticht at gmail.com>> wrote:

Colleagues: Veterans Day is observed on November 11th to honor all those who have served in the armed forces of the United States. Among these are many educators who have performed their military service by teaching undereducated military recruits how to improve their literacy skills to better perform their jobs and to communicate with loved ones back home.
To celebrate these many military literacy teachers and their adult learners I have compiled a number of brief research notes that I have written over the years into one report entitled, “FIGHTING ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR: An anthology of brief historical notes”. These notes discuss the work of such notable literacy teachers of military students as Captain Garry and Caroline Clark during the World War I era, who later went on to found the great magazine to help children learn to read called Highlights for Children! Another note talks about the World War II work of the famous musician and actor, Desi Arnaz, of I Love Lucy fame, in teaching U.S. Army personnel to read.
Ranging from the Revolutionary War through World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq wars, the FIGHTING ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR report discusses how the armed forces taught literacy skills, study skills (the famous SQ3R strategy), and founded the General Educational Development (GED) certificate for personnel who had not completed their high school degrees during World War II and which thousands of civilian adult learners now complete each year in the United States and Canada.
Now, when I celebrate Veteran's Day, I have a special place in my thoughts for the hundreds of thousands of undereducated, less literate veterans who have served our nation honorably. I also think of the thousands of veteran adult literacy educators who, through their dedication to fighting illiteracy, have helped thousands of these military personnel succeed. I have visited the National World War II museum in New Orleans, the Korean and Vietnam War memorials in Washington DC, but I have found no stone monuments to these veterans of literacy education, teachers and learners alike.  But I know that our nation's struggle for freedom has relied upon books as well as on bullets and bombs!

The report on Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War is available online at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024840_FIGHTING_ILLITERACY_IN_TIMES_OF_WAR_An_anthology_of_brief_historical_notes_by_Tom_Sticht<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024840_FIGHTING_ILLITERACY_IN_TIMES_OF_WAR_An_anthology_of_brief_historical_notes_by_Tom_Sticht>


Tom Sticht



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