ABSTRACT

Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a project designed to train immigrants and refugees as adult ESL and native literacy instructors in their own communities. Beyond the story of this one project, the book is also a clear and powerful explication of the underlying principles and premises of the program model it describes: community leadership development, a participatory approach to literacy instruction and instructor training, native language adult literacy instruction, and collaboration.

chapter 1|21 pages

The Context and Rationale

chapter 2|32 pages

Project Structure and Participants

chapter 3|23 pages

The Training Component

chapter 4|28 pages

From Training to Teaching

chapter 5|45 pages

Evaluation

chapter 6|19 pages

So What?