Each One Teach One: The Legacy of Evangelism in Adult Literacy Education  

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Christoph, Julie Nelson

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 26 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 77-110.
Topik: Adult Basic Education; adult literacy; faith-based organizations; Laubach; hidden curriculum; ProLiteracy; tutoring
Fulltext: 77.pdf (439.67KB)

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Scholars of adult basic literacy curricular materials have argued that the skillbased, deficit-oriented approach of many such materials denies the interests and motivations of adult learners. Exploring why these kinds of curricular materials are prevalent in adult basic literacy education, this article focuses on the case of ProLiteracy, a nongovernmental adult basic literacy organization that grew out of missionary Frank Laubach’s work in the 1930s to convert illiterate adults to Christianity and a belief in American-style capitalism. This article argues that the legacy of Laubach’s evangelism continues to affect adult literacy instruction in the United States today, through the content of many of the materials in the ProLiteracy catalogue, as well as through the volunteer- based one-to-one tutoring model’s positioning of low-literacy adults.

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