I would add to Andres' great list Allan Quigley's new book Building Professional Pride in Literacy.  Quigley writes in the preface, "Teachers, tutors, administrators, counselors, and those in the many adult literacy support roles who are relatively new to the field are considered the main audience."
 
Best,
Dominique
 
  
Dr. Dominique T. Chlup
Director of the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning  (TCALL) &
Assistant Professor of Adult Education
Texas A&M University 
  

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From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Muro, Andres
Sent: Fri 2/9/2007 4:16 PM
To: The Poverty, Race,Women and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 471] Re: book recommendation



Slightly out of date, but Rethinking Literacy Education by Allan Quigley
is pretty good and easy to read and a classic. Our friend's (George
Demetrion) book, Conflicting Paradigms, is also an interesting read and
more up to date. But it is a little more technical. Jonathan Kozol's
book Illiterate America also, slightly outdated but very interesting and
moving and also a classic.

A little more out there are Literacies of Power by Macedo, and the
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire and Reading the World and the Word
by Freire and Macedo which are two classics. These last three are a very
political.

Andres

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From: povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:povertyracewomen-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Janet Isserlis
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 2:53 PM
To: The Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 470] Re: book recommendation

this is a great   question.  Nothing jumps to mind yet, but I hope, as
we
ponder this, we might think not only about books, but also about
articles
(popular press included) or essays.

I know that there was a recent discussion on this and/or other lists
about
films - but a question about a text to help board folks think about
adult
literacy is really interesting to contempalte..



> From: Daphne Greenberg <ALCDGG at langate.gsu.edu>

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

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> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:42:33 -0500

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> <povertyracewomen at nifl.gov>

> Subject: [PovertyRaceWomen 469]  book recommendation

>

> I have been asked the following question and hoped that someone on

this

> listserv has a good recommendation:

> A director of a literacy program wanted a suggestion of a good book to

> read that would introduce Board members to the field of adult

literacy.

> Any ideas?

> Thanks,

> Daphne

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