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Peer reviewedBelzer, Alisa – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2002
Describes five African American women learners who were participating in a community-based General Education Development program. Argues that a lack of engagement is in part due to the "scripts" of school reading, which they have carried with them into adulthood and which alienate them from the act of reading. (SG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Blacks, Case Studies
Direct linkCompton-Lilly, Catherine – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
Two case studies of adult GED (General Education Diploma) students and their kindergarten-aged children are presented. The construct of "capital," as described by Pierre Bourdieu (1986), is applied specifically to the children's and adults' reading practices. These case studies are analyzed in terms of various forms of official…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Case Studies, Disabilities, High School Equivalency Programs
