Hi David,

I would be interested to know what a Freirian approach adult literacy 
program might look like.  In your opinion, what might be the 
ingredients?
thanks.

Andrea

On Jan 5, 2007, at 3:13 AM, Ujwala Samant wrote:


> Dear David,

>

> This is one question that I have been wondering about

> for years. Aside from the 'glory days' in the 70s/80s

> which colleagues of mine at NCSALL told me about and

> one in NY, I could find no Freireian approaches to

> adult literacy. I have studied the 70s-80s classics,

> and I have been curious as to what happened since

> then.

>

> Thanks for raising this question,

> Warm regards,

> Ujwala

>

> --- David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:

>

>> Colleagues,

>>

>> In a conversation yesterday I was asked if I know of

>> good examples of

>> GED preparation programs which use a popular

>> education, or

>> participatory (Freirean) approach.  I am only aware

>> of one, a theme-

>> based approach that the City University of New York

>> adult literacy

>> GED program has used for over a decade.  If you have

>> others to

>> suggest I would be pleased to hear about them.

>> Thanks.

>>

>> David J. Rosen

>> djrosen at comcast.net

>>

>>

>>

>> ----------------------------------------------------

>> National Institute for Literacy

>> Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy mailing list

>> PovertyRaceWomen at nifl.gov

>> To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings,

>> please go to

>>

> http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/povertyracewomen

>>

>

>

> __________________________________________________

> Do You Yahoo!?

> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

> http://mail.yahoo.com

> ----------------------------------------------------

> National Institute for Literacy

> Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy mailing list

> PovertyRaceWomen at nifl.gov

> To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to 

> http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/povertyracewomen

>