Building professional pride in literacy : a dialogical guide to professional development for practitioners of adult literacy and basic education

Summary: Aimed at adult literacy and ABE practitioners, though useful to all those involved in the literacy field. A guide which "seeks to initiate personal and group reflection, which...leads to activities and change", in the goal of greater dialogue and knowledge-sharing among literacy practitioners, and greater professionalism in practitioners and programs. Activities in this guide can be used in groups or independently, in urban or rural settings, face to face or long-distance. Readers will learn ways to teach adults with low literacy and ways to conduct their own problem-posing research on teaching problems. A history of adult literacy programs is also given.