Mev--

I just ran this off, it is fabulous, explanatory and with citations.

Thank you.

Andrea

On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:39 AM, mev at litwomen.org wrote:


> 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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