Recommended Print Resources for Adult Literacy Educators
- General Professional Development
- Curriculum Ideas
- ESOL
- Reading and Writing
- Family Literacy
- Adult Education Publishers
General Professional Development
Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Second Edition), Sharan Merriam and Rosemary Caffarella, Jossey-Bass, 1998.
Learning to Think, Learning to Learn: What the Science of Thinking and Learning Has to Offer Adult Education, Jennifer Cromley, National Institute for Literacy, 2000.
Program Administrators’ Sourcebook: A Resource on NCSALL’s Research for Adult Education Program Administrators, Jackie Taylor, Cristine Smith, and Beth Bingman, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, 2005.
Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL Literacy, Elsa Auerbach, Delta Systems, 1992.
Bringing Literacy to Life: Issues and Options in Adult ESL Literacy, Heide S. Wrigley and Gloria J. Guth, Aguirre International, 1992.
Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training, Elsa Auerbach, et. al., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Annual Review of Adult Literacy and Learning, Vols. 1 – 6, John Comings, Barbara Garner, and Cristine Smith, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, 1999 – 2006.
Rethinking Literacy Education, B. Allan Quigley, Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education, George Demetrion, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo, Bergin & Garvey, 1987.
The Complete Theory-to-Practice Handbook of Adult Literacy: Curriculum Design and Teaching Approaches, Rena Soifer, et. al., Teachers College Press, 1990.
Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults, Jane Vella, Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Developing Critical Thinkers, Stephen Brookfield, Jossey-Bass, 1991.
Discussion as a Way of Teaching, Stephen Brookfield, Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education, Elizabeth Hayes and Arthur Wilson (eds.), Jossey-Bass, 2000.
Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education, John Elias and Sharan Merriam, Krieger, 1995.
The Modern Practice of Adult Education (Revised Edition), Malcolm Knowles, Cambridge, 1988.
Participatory Practices in Adult Education, Pat Campbell and Barbara Burnaby, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2001.
Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning, Jack Mezirow, Jossey-Bass, 1991.
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Educators of Adults, Patricia Cranton, Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Learning and Change in the Adult Years, Mark Tennant and Philip Pogson, Jossey-Bass, 2000.
Adult Education as Vocation, Michael Collins, Routledge, 1991.
In Defense of the Lifeworld: Critical Perspectives on Adult Learning, Michael Robert Welton, SUNY Press, 1995.
Towards a Transformative Political Economy of Adult Education: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, Paul Wangoola and Frank Youngman (eds.), Educational Studies Press, 1996.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter Senge, Currency/Doubleday, 1994.
Informal and Incidental Learning in the Workplace, Victoria Marsick and Karen Watkins, Routledge, 1990.
Curriculum Ideas
Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy Classroom, Erik Jacobson, Sophie Degener, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, 2003.
Learners’ Lives as Curriculum, Gail Weinstein (ed.), Delta Systems and the Center for Applied Linguistics, 1999.
ESL for Action: Problem Posing at Work, Elsa Auerbach and Nina Wallerstein, Addison-Wesley, 1987.
The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice, New England Literacy Resource Center. (Published biannually. Current and back issues available online.)
Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook, Andy Nash (ed.), New England Literacy Resource Center, 1999.
Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development, Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart, and Margo Okazawa-Rey (eds.), NECA, 1998.
Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Vols. 1 and 2, Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Barbara Miner, and Bob Peterson (eds.), Rethinking Schools, 1994 and 2001.
Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity, Nancy Schniedewind and Ellen Davidson, Prentice Hall, 1998.
Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching, Ira Shor (ed.), Boynton/Cook, 1987.
ESOL
REEP ESL Curriculum for Adults, Arlington Education and Employment Program
Approaches to Adult ESL Literacy Instruction, JoAnn Crandall and Joy Kreeft Peyton (eds.), Center for Applied Linguistics, 1993.
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Marianne Celce-Murcia, Heinle and Heinle, 2001.
Teaching by Principles: An Interactice Approach to Language Pedagogy, H. Douglas Brown, Prentice Hall Regents, 1994.
ESL Training by Design Series (training manuals plus videos), New Readers Press, 1996.
Techniques in Testing (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language), Harold Madsen, Oxford University Press, 1983.
Techniques in Teaching Writing (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language), Ann Raimes, Oxford University Press, 1983.
The ESL Teacher’s Book of Lists, Jacqueline Kress, Center for Applied Research in Education, 1993.
Reading and Writing
Reading Process and Practice (Third Edition), Constance Weaver, Heinemann, 2002.
Print Literacy Development: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories, Victoria Purcell-Gates, Erik Jacobson, Sophie Degener, Harvard, 2004.
Applying Research In Reading Instruction for Adults: First Steps for Teachers, Susan McShane, National Institute for Literacy/The Partnership for Reading, 2005.
Teaching Reading to Adults: A Balanced Approach, Pat Campbell, Grass Roots Press, 2003.
Reading for Understanding, Ruth Schoenbach (Ed.), Cynthia Greenleaf, Christine Cziko, and Lori Hurwitz, Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop, Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann, Heinemann, 1997.
Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy, 6-12, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Tanya Baker, and Julie Dube, Heinemann, 2001.
You Gotta Be the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescents, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith, Teachers College Press, 1996.
Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6: Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, Heinemann, 2001.
The Art of Teaching Reading, Lucy Calkins, Longman, 2000.
The Art of Teaching Writing (Second Edition), Lucy Calkins, Heinemann, 2000.
A Fresh Look at Writing, Donald Graves, Heinemann, 1994.
In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents (Second Edition), Nancie Atwell, Boynton/Cook, 2000.
Discovery and Respect: A Handbook for Student-directed Group Learning, Mallory Clarke, Goodwill Literacy Adult Learning Center, Seattle, 1991. (Copies available from LAC.)
Whole Language for Adults: A Guide to Instruction, Judy Cheatham, Mallory Clarke, Denise McKay, Melody Schneider, and Mary Dunn Siedow, New Readers Press, 1994.
Whole Language for Adults: A Guide to Portfolio Assessment, Jane McKillop, New Readers Press, 1994.
Litstart: Strategies for Adult Literacy and ESL Tutors, Michigan Literacy Inc., 1999.
Family Literacy
Immigrant Learners and Their Families, Gail Weinstein-Shr and Elizabeth Quintero, Center for Applied Linguistics & Delta Systems Co., 1995.
Many Families, Many Literacies, Denny Taylor, Heinemann, 1997.
Assessing Success in Family Literacy and Adult ESL (Revised Edition), Carol Van Duzer and Daniel D. Holt, eds., Delta Systems, 2000.
Building Communities of Learners: A Collaboration among Students, Teachers, Families and Community, Sudia Paloma McCaleb, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
Family Literacy: Connections in Schools and Communities, Lesley Mandel
Morrow, International Reading Association, 1995.
Teacher Research on Funds of Knowledge: Learning from Households, Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moss, Martha Floyd-Tenery, Anna Rivera, Patricia Rendon, Raquel Gonzalez, Cathy Amanti, National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, 1994. (Available through the Center for Applied Linguistics; see digest.