Professional Development

A Few Selected Resources

Mosaic: Research Notes on Literacy: Volume 9, Number 1. Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (November 1999). This issue of Mosaic highlights welfare reform's impact on adult basic education and literacy, and the field's varied responses to this federal legislation. Articles address: combining skills training and education; innovations in family literacy programs in response to welfare reform; an argument that TANF clients need more than basic job skills to achieve self-sufficiency; and using the Freirean inquiry approach to address the problem of domestic violence with welfare-to-work learners.

The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues and Ideas, Issue 9. England Literacy Resource Center. (1999). This issue is titled Looking In, Looking Out: Reflections on Adult Basic Education. Articles include: Broken Promises/Forgotten Dreams; Adult Education Practice in a K-12 Schooled World; Bringing Community Into the Curriculum; Community Building: One Tutor at a Time; Sick and Tired of Accountability; Is Education a Right?; The "Youthification" of Adult Education; and When Students Want Workbooks. Poetry and many student exercises are also included. [Free copies of these issues are available from the Clearinghouse]