Hello Tom,

Thanks for your reply.  This is an area I have some interested in.  I  
wonder if you are familiar with the workplace ethnographic work of  
California anthropologist Charles Darrah? If not, I think you would  
want to read his work, especially the year-long ethnographic study he  
did of a California workplace that described itself as moving toward  
a high performance workplace model.  What the company thought was  
happening -- and what the workers thought was happening -- were very  
different views.  I would put Darrah in a group with Hull and Sheryl  
Gowen.

Since this kind of research is not always easy to find, I would  
appreciate seeing your reading lists or bibliographies.  I would also  
be interested in your research.

All the best,

David
djrosen at comcast.net

On Nov 9, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Thomas Van Alstyne wrote:


> Dave, I have worked in workforce development and adult

> ed and elsewhere in human svces. I am in the last yr

> of a dissertation in Anthropology/Education about

> literacy practices at job training programs and

> literacy practices actually encountered at worksites.

> My theoretical orientation is that of socially

> situated literacy studies, or critical literacy, which

> follows the arguments of folks like Freire, James Gee,

> Glynda Hull, Colin Lankshear and discourse analysts.

>

> So I have been in the trenches but I have also kept a

> foot in academic research studies.  I have read some

> NSCALL reports, do visit NIFL website, and some ERIC

> docs. But most of these come to me as specific

> assigned readings from my academic commitee. I also

> read stuff on Urban Institute and Center for an Urban

> Future. I can email you some reading lists or graduate

> seminar syllabi that have books and journals that

> speak to these issues. Peace, Tom VA SUNY ALbany

>

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

>

>> Colleagues,

>>

>> Many adult literacy and English language learning

>> practitioners turn

>> to this electronic list to find knowledge and

>> wisdom, and to get

>> answers to specific professional questions.  We also

>> have other ways

>> of finding knowledge.  We learn from our experience

>> and that of our

>> colleagues. We read certain journals, magazines and

>> newspapers, we

>> seek out opinions from reputable  sources, and we

>> try to find the

>> best research which addresses our question or

>> problem.  So, here's my

>> question:

>>

>> How do you find answers to your adult literacy and

>> English language

>> learning questions?

>>

>> 	a. For example, do you use any of the following?

>>

>> 	• NIFL LINCS Special collections, LINCSearch,

>> discussion lists, and

>> the included online documents and archives

>> 	• Canadian-sponsored National Adult Literacy

>> Database (NALD) and its

>> online documents and archives

>> 	• National Center for the Study of Adult Learning

>> and Literacy

>> (NCSALL) Web site and its hard copy publications

>> 	• ERIC Database

>> 	• The Adult Literacy Education Wiki

>> 	• OTAN

>> 	• EdWeek

>> 	• PEN

>> 	• Other electronic lists

>>

>> 	b. What else do you use?  What hard copy journals

>> do you find

>> useful? Are there other electronic resources that

>> are helpful in

>> answering questions?

>>

>> Please e-mail your answers to me. I will compile

>> what I get and post

>> a summary back to those who e-mail me so we can all

>> benefit from our

>> collective wisdom.  You can send a short email with

>> just items to add

>> to the list above or, if you prefer, you can write a

>> longer, more

>> reflective answer which contextualizes the question,

>> describes how

>> the question hits home for you, expresses

>> frustration with how little

>> research and professional wisdom our field has, or

>> whatever you would

>> like to say.  If you think your comments pertain to

>> the focus of this

>> list, of course, you could post them here.

>>

>> Thanks for your help in answering this question,

>> which I hope is not

>> mine alone.

>>

>> David J. Rosen

>> DJRosen at comcast.net

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