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1. Resources for Learning - Aboriginal Literacy (2002)
Aboriginal Literacy - Creating Ideas, Supporting Opportunities
Authors: Beverly Anne Sabourin
Collection: Research Materials
This directory, The Language of Literacy: Resources For Learning is a hands-on resource oriented to aboriginal literacy practitioners, educators and advocates who are working to strengthen the resource base of aboriginal literacy programming in Canada.
Added: 2002-01-01
2. The Scientific Understanding of Reading and the Reading Potential of Adults Assessed by Measuring Listening and Reading Abilities (2002)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
This article discusses the concept of a child's “reading potential,” which represents the difference between how well a child can understand spoken and written language. The author then applies this concept to adult learners.
Added: 2002-07-31
3. Software Reviews (2002)
Authors: Tracey Mollins
Collection: Research Materials
This page contains links to reviews of several pieces of software, including “Explore Canada: Canada's History and Geography in Plain Language,”
”Canadian Encyclopedia” and “The Factory Mystery.”
Added: 2002-03-22
4. Teaching Reading with Adults (2002)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
In Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States renewed interest is being given to the teaching of literacy, especially reading, to adults using research-based information. This paper discusses literacy as the mastery of graphics technology.
In writing, the author "extracts" knowledge from the brain and "collects" (stores) it in graphic displays. Then, through the practice of the skill of reading, the collected knowledge is extracted by the reader from the graphic display and reconstructed in the brain. Learners who wish to improve their literacy must learn to recognize, interpret, and produce graphic symbols and devices such as forms, maps, and textbooks.
By considering literacy as competence in working with graphics technology, instructors can help adult learners understand that much of what is encountered in teaching and learning reading results from the fundamental characteristics of graphics displays.
Added: 2002-07-31
5. Where Does the Reading Problem Go When Children Grow Up? (2002)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
This research note discusses the tested and perceived reading skills of adults in the US. It breaks the statistics down by cultural group and by gender, and compares the results for the US to those of other countries.
The author suggests that it would be useful to study these cultural experiences with regard to the differences between adults' measured literacy abilities and their self-perceptions of their literacy abilities, and to use this information to better understand the scale of need and desire for adults to participate in the Adult Education and Literacy System of the United States.
Added: 2002-03-04
6. Literacy in War and Peace - Tom Sticht's Work in Adult Literacy Education (2002)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
This article traces the author's own education from second grade through post-graduate work, and discusses his work experience in the field of adult literacy education.
Added: 2002-08-01
7. The Big Picture Up Close (2002)
Outcomes of a Province-Wide Consultation
Authors: Stacey Huget
Collection: Research Materials
This document outlines a province-wide consultation process that took place throughout British Columbia from September, 2000 to August, 2001. It is a comprehensive sense of what British Columbians thought and believed about “literacy and lifelong learning”.
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Added: 2002-07-11
8. Empowering Adult Learners (Draft Format) (2002)
Keynote address given at ABEBC Conference, Prince George, May 2002
Authors: Selma Wassermann
Collection: Research Materials
This is the keynote address given by Selma Wassermann at the Adult Basic Education of British Columbia Conference in Prince George, BC, in May 2002. Selma discusses some basic principles that promote students' confidence and provide them with resources for a complex and terrifying world.
Added: 2002-06-19
9. 2002 NWT Literacy Council Writing Contest (2002)
Authors: NWT Literacy Council
Collection: Learning Materials
This book contains the winning entries from the 2002 NWT Writing Contest. Winners were chosen for each range and for each category: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, legends, and French.
Added: 2002-06-26
10. Literacy, Museums and the Arts: An Annotated Bibliography (2002)
Authors: Centre for Literacy of Quebec
Collection: Research Materials
This annotated bibliography was produced for the symposium “Literacy, Museums and the Arts,” held in Montreal in April of 2002. The references and annotations all relate in some way to the topic of adult learning and education through the museum, and through the arts in general.
The sections of the bibliography are: Annotated References with Keywords, Readings Recommended by Participants, Annotated Web Sites, and Keyword Index.
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Added: 2002-08-06
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