Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f6TJXBf27364; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:33:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:33:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <002601c11864$b6c8e560$e49c2a3f@computer> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "gdemetrion" <gdemetrion@msn.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:551] Re: Vote On Adult Functional Illiteracy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1495 Lines: 36 Again, thanks to Tom Sticht for raising these critical issues. Perhaps some researchers who are not directly involved with this issue will weigh in here and provide some additional analysis. As stated in a previous message I work out of the anthropological (some say) ethnographic tradition. Over the years, my collegagues and I in Hartford have collected a great deal of commentary both from students and from tutors on the learning experiences. My colleague Steve Lindberg who houses the Literacytent at http://literacytent.org/ is putting up the various documents that we have developed in Hartford. Check them out to get an anthropological sense of what adult literacy learning is about. Of course, practitioners and students already know this. Still, it's valuable to have a collection of such material readily available. But here's the main point. Steve is ready, willing, and able to catalogue similar such materials (and much else) for the field. That would enable the field to have a single, centralized qualitative data base that could be drawn upon for a very wide array of purposes, including research and policy, but also to stimulate instruction, training, and whatever else. Perhaps there would be interest among the field to work with Steve in developing and expanding this data base. Sounds like an excellent (and rare) opportunity to me, an opportunity to create a national treasure. Steve can be directly contacted at steve@silicon-goblin.com George Demetrion
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