A community-based approach to literacy programs
Subtitle: taking learner's lives into account
By: Peggy A. Sissel, editor.
Contributors: Sissel, Peggy A.
Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 70, Summer 1996; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 70.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Literacy programs -- United States; Community education -- United States
Other titles: Taking learner's lives into account
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in family literacy programs: a gendered perspective -- Sondra Cuban, Elisabeth Hayes; title: Our students, ourselves: lessons of challenge and hope from the African American Community -- Elizabeth A. Peterson; title: Voices from the fields: community-based migrant education -- Loida C. Velazquez; title: Prisons as communities: needs and challenges -- Waynne Blue James, James E. Witte, David Tal-Mason; title: Building connections: classrooms and communities in rural Virginia -- Mary Beth Bingman, Marie Martin, Amy Trawick; title: Literacy and health communities: potential partners in practice -- Peggy A. Sissel, Marcia Drew Hohn; title: Popular education: an appropriate educational strategy for community-based organizations -- Hal Beder -- "A; title: wonderfully terrible place to be": learning in practitioner inquiry communities -- Susan L. Lytle; title: Reflection as vision: prospects for future literacy programming-- Peggy A. Sissel.