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Whole Language and Adult Education: A Juxtaposition of Two Universes of Discourse.
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Lewis, Warren – 1995
Whole language, a theory of language instruction that was developed primarily in terms of helping children learn to read, has now been extended to middle- and secondary-school levels. Andragogy, the learning of adults, is a specific theory of adult education, conceived in contradistinction to pedagogy, the teaching of children. When these two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Andragogy, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Communities