Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBFJ2B900827; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:02:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:02:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10012151351490.10303-100000@cls.coe.utk.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Diane Gardner <dgardner@cls.coe.utk.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3] Re: Thrusday Notes 12/14/2000 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Content-Length: 1261 Lines: 27 Gail, I don't see this as an "either-or" issue. I feel that by providing basic skills education in the workplace, adult educators are positioned to address the other legitimate goals of the adult learner. Although the stated purpose, at least initially, may be to provide the basic skills that will enable the adult to better perform his or her job, these essential skills transfer to other situations and it becomes our task as educators to provide that link. My hope is that we make learning more accessible and direct these workplace learners to other opportunities available to them. Diane Gardner On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 GSpan1@aol.com wrote: > Whether Wyoming's plan to pull adult education into a new Department of > Workforce Services is good news is questionable. Once again it appears to > give short shrift to adult literacy programs whose students and instruction > are not job-directed but who have other legitimate goals important to the > nation's well-being and individual lives (i.e. voluntary, CBO, and library > literacy programs). And once again "adult literacy" as such might be pushed > so far back into the shadows that hard-fought gains of the past couple of > decades may be lost. I hope I'm wrong. Gail Spangenberg >
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