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Download full textPaul, Marianne – 1991
This five-chapter guide for coordinators of community-based literacy groups working with prisoners is illustrated with prisoners' drawings. The first chapter examines issues affecting learning behind bars. Topics covered include similarities to and differences from other programs, respecting the learner's culture, links between poverty and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Community Programs
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Direct linkKnox, Alan B. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Collaboration across the domains of continuing education and organizations advance civil society to address public issues.
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Continuing Education, Citizenship Education, Political Issues
Northampton Community Coll., Bethlehem, PA. Adult Literacy Div. – 1993
This manual was developed for use in a 17-session family literacy program for incarcerated fathers and their children. The activities in the first eight sessions, which are designed to be completed before the children's first visit, are based on a mix of children's literature and reading materials dealing with child development and parenting. In…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Child Behavior, Child Development
Werner, Evelyn C., Comp.; Harmon, Cheryl M., Comp. – 1997
This document presents abstracts for 30 projects that were conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1995-1996 with federal funds allotted to strengthen adult basic and literacy education through experimentation with new methods, programs, and techniques and professional development for personnel working in adult basic education programs. Among the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
