Literacy, Language and Community Publishing : : Essays in Adult Education / / ed. by Jane Mace.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Duffin, Patricia,; Fitzpatrick, Stella,; Harris, Roxy,; Hayler, Michael,; Kyriacou, Sav,; Mace, Jane,; Moss, Wendy,; O’Rourke, Rebecca,; Sunderland, Helen,; Taylor, Sean,; Thomson, Alistair,; Wallis, Judy,
• HerausgeberIn: Mace, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing work. Illustrated by accounts of first-hand experience, each chapter focuses on the practical business of achieving good learning and develop...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Notes on the Authors
• Introduction
• SECTION I: WRITERS, PUBLISHING AND LEARNING
• 1. Sailing out from Safe Harbours: Writing for Publishing in Adult Basic Education
• 2. Can't, Won't or Don't: Readers and Writers in Adult Education
• 3. Working with Words: Active Learning in a Community Writing and Publishing Group
• SECTION II : FUNCTION AND CREATION
• 4. 'You Can't Write Until You Can Spell': Attitudes to Writing amongst Adult Basic Education Students
• 5. Working on Writing with Refugees
• 6. Writers in Search of an Audience: Taking Writing from Personal to Public
• 7. Reminiscence as Literacy: Intersections and Creative Moments
• SECTION III : LANGUAGE CHOICES AND INTENTIONS
• 8. Disappearing Language: Fragments and Fractures Between Speech and Writing
• 9. Controlling or Empowering? Writing Through a Scribe in Adult Basic Education
• 10. Oral History and Bilingual Publishing
• 11. Improving on the Blank Page
• Index