Janet
I think the article you are looking for is "The Freirean Approach to  
Adult Literacy Education" by David Spener -- now located at:
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/FREIREQA.html

Mev

On Friday, January 5, 2007, at 10:39  AM, Janet Isserlis wrote:


> All

>

>

>> One person said GED preparation and

> a popular education approach are a contradiction.

>

> Absolutely not, if you connect the content pieces of the GED to an  

> approach

> to teaching,  I don't think that this high stakes, results-driven test

> necessarily precludes a popular education approach, but it is  

> challenging,

> and likely difficult to do "pure" popular education.  Having said that,

> though, I think it's worth considering as part of a continuum of  

> practice.

>

> I'm struggling to remember the name of a man (David someone?) who  

> presented

> an approach to teaching science in a Freirean manner. - and did get me

> thinking about how such an approach really *isn't* contradictory to  

> academic

> study.  Science happens in the world; the world is very much a part of

> everyone's context to some extent or another.

>

> so far my search for the elusive TESOL presenter has gotten me here

> http://scholar.google.com/ 

> scholar%3Fq%3DTESOL+%2B+participatory+%2B+science+

> %2B+Freire%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26oi%3Dscholart ...

>

> It was a TESOL conference, maybe late 80's, early 90s.

>

> Does this ring a bell for anyone?

>

> Janet Isserlis

>

>

>

>> From: David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net>

>> Reply-To: "The Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy Discussion List"

>> <povertyracewomen at nifl.gov>

>> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:17:59 -0500

>

>>

>> Colleagues,

>>

>> I have received several e-mail replies to my positing below, but have

>> still not identified a GED preparation program that could be

>> described as using a popular education approach.  A couple of people

>> said they had the greatest respect for the theme-based program at

>> CUNY I cited but said that it does not use a popular education/

>> Freirean/participatory approach. One person said GED preparation and

>> a popular education approach are a contradiction.

>>

>> If you know of a GED program that you believe uses a popular

>> education approach, please e-mail me the name and give me a contact

>> if you can.

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> David J. Rosen

>> djrosen at comcast.net

>>

>>

>> On Jan 4, 2007, at 7:19 AM, David Rosen 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

>>

>>

>>

>>

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