Now We Read, We See, We Speak
Subtitle: Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780805834703
Subjects: Higher & further education; Language acquisition; Philosophy of education; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; El Salvador; Critical pedagogy; Education / Teaching; Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts; Education; Literacy programs; Functional literacy; Adult & Continuing Education; Literacy; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading; Case studies
First sentence: Eight women bent over their notebooks in a tiny, one-room hut in the steamy countryside of El Salvador.
Description: "This portrait of one teacher's implementation of principles gleaned from the work of Paulo Freire results from an 18-month ethnographic study of an adult women's literacy class in rural EI Salvador. It is the first in-depth study, with systematic data collection, of a Freirean-based program through a sociopsycholinguistic literacy lens.

The central question the authors set out to addresses is: Using what is known about how people learn to read and write - cognitively, linguistically, socially, and developmentally - what relationships can be seen between these developmental processes involved in becoming literate and the essential aspects of Freirean-inspired curriculum?

Purcell-Gates and Waterman sought to see and to understand for themselves how adults in the literacy program learned to read and write as they transacted with the Freirean curriculum, and what such a class could look like in action." "It is a book for all teachers, teacher educators, and researchers who are interested in, and curious about, Freirean-literacy instruction."--BOOK JACKET.