Talking About Literacy: Principles and Practice of Adult Literacy Education

Explores the theory behind adult literacy education - discussing the arguments in favour of literacy, and analysing principles by which literacy may be creatively learned, looking in detail at context, equality and community.

Author: Jane Mace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/04/1992
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.44w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780415080446

About the Author
Jane Mace has worked for twenty years in adult literacy and community education. At Cambridge House Literacy Scheme, as tutor-organiser and then Director, she contributed to the shaping of policy in adult literacy programmes during the early years of the adult literacy campaign in the UK. At the Lee Community Education Centre, Goldsmiths' College, she co-ordinated a programme of courses and projects in literacy, women's education, reminiscence work and workplace training. As Senior Lecturer in Community Education at Goldsmiths' College, her work now concerns research and development in the same areas