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PDF pending restorationHautecoeur, Jean-Paul, Ed. – 1992
This collection contains 17 papers presented at a seminar on literacy strategies in the community movement, held in Namur, Belgium, in 1991. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Hautecoeur); "Illiteracy: Direction? Action? Results?" (Hautecoeur); "Basic Education and Personal Development Strategies"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
Download full textDysart Community Center, El Mirage, AZ. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves predominantly Spanish-speaking and low-income people in a small Mexican-American community of about 3500. Begun in 1968, the program is designed to teach English as a second language along with concomitant values of better home and community life, as well as health and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement
Mayer, Steven E. – 1984
This guide is intended to assist individuals involved in the development, administration, and delivery of volunteer-based community adult literacy programs. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: community (community assessment, learner population, program purposes, public awareness, and partnerships and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Bashaw, Marjorie K. – 1993
This study examines the history, development, and important characteristics of Project: LEARN, a community-based literacy program in Cleveland (Ohio). The program started in 1974 and is an affiliate of Laubach Literacy International. It has successfully used volunteer tutors to teach basic reading and writing skills to thousands of illiterate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Case Studies
Literacy Volunteers, Inc., Syracuse, NY. – 1974
A demonstration project established eight self-supporting, volunteer-staffed adult basic reading tutorial programs in Connecticut, seven in Massachusetts, and one in central New York city. Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) tutors also helped adult basic education students, tutored inmates and trained inmate tutors in correctional institutions,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Palmatier, Robert A.; And Others – 1976
The instructional concept guide is part of a system developed for tutor training and support. It is primarily designed for volunteers, but it can also be adapted to the training of paraprofessional tutors for any type of adult literacy program. A key component in the system is the Tutor Support Library, consisting of Instructional Concept Guides…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
