[NIFL-4EFF:1871] new issue of Focus on Basics

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Hi Everyone:

The newest issue of Focus on Basics (FOB) is now available on NCSALL's web
site: <http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu>. This issue features:

* The findings from the NCSALL research on Adult Development by Robert
Kegan, Eleanor Drago-Severson, Kathryn Portnow, Nancy Popp, Deborah Helsing,
and Maria Broderick.

NIFL-4EFFers: While the findings for all these research questions are not
presented in this issue of FOB, the questions that guided the research
group's investigation are relevant to this discussion group and the EFF
initiative:

1. How does developmental level (i.e., way of knowing) shape adults'
experiences and definitions of the core roles they take on as learners,
parents, and workers?

2. How do adult learners' ways of knowing shape their experience and
definition of programs dedicated to increasing their role competence?

3. What educational practices and processes contribute to changes in the
learner's relationship to learning (vis-à-vis motive, efficacy, and meaning
system) and specifically to any reconceptualization of core roles?

4. To what extent does the level of people's development or transformation
predict their success or competence?

This issue of FOB also features:

* An interview with teachers Sylvia Greene and Matthew Puma about what it
was like to participate in the adult development research.

* An overview of four theories of adult development and how they relate to
the adult basic education classroom by Lisa Baumgartner.

* A peek into a classroom where Carol Eades teaches for transformation.

* Insight into the impact of TV411 by Debby D'Amico and Mary Ann Capehart.

* How TV411 supports adult development by Earle Reybold.

* How career and technical education supports adult development in program
in Rhode Island by Lynne M. Bedard.

Check it out! The NCSALL web site and FOB are at:
<http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu>. Scroll down and click on Newest Issue of
Focus on Basics, or click on Publications, then Focus on Basics. All earlier
issues, including First Level Learners, are available too.

Ronna

Ronna Spacone
NIFL-4EFF List Moderator



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