Hi,
Lenore Balliro here from World Education in Boston. I have enjoyed reading the "Big Names" thread, and I've been having fun looking  up some of the people I didn't know. I'd like to add some names as well. 

Mina Shaughnessy, especially Errors and Expectations
Ira Shor, especially Critical Teaching and Everyday Life
Brian Street 
Patricia Carrell 
Janet Isserlis (my first ESOL mentor)
Elsa Auerbach 
Susan Lytle
Pat Rigg
John Trimbur
Stanley Eagleton

Like others on the list, I owe a debt to Shirley Brice Heath, John Ogbu, Jim Gee, Peter Elbow, both Goodmans, and Frank Smith. And to Stanley Fish and Richard Rorty for helping me to deconstruct Cartesean polarities. 


>>> "Sandman-Hurley, Kelli" <KSandmanHurley at sandiego.gov> 1/7/2008 9:47 PM >>>

Adult Literacy or literacy in general? In general, I would suggest Chall and Clay for starters. Although they both focused on children, their substantial work is very relevant to what we do in adult literacy every day.
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Subject: [ProfessionalDevelopment 1841] Big Names in Literacy?

I am curious who you would consider to be big names in literacy, both historically and currently?