Adult Basic Education: The State of the ArtWilliam S. Griffith, Ann P. Hayes Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1970 - 236 sider |
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Side 202 - Donald T. Campbell and Julian C. Stanley, Experimental and QuasiExperimental Designs for Research (Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1966), pp.
Side 194 - As an anthropologist I have tried to understand poverty and its associated traits as a culture or, more accurately, as a subculture with its own structure and rationale, as a way of life which is passed down from generation to generation along family lines.
Side 95 - Of this number 11.5 million were men and 1o.6 million were women. These "functional illiterates" are concentrated mainly in the following groups: (1) older persons, both white and nonwhite; (2) persons living on farms, especially Negroes; (3) persons with rural backgrounds who have moved to urban centers, including Puerto Rican migrants; and (4) migrant farm workers and other disadvantaged groups, including Spanish-speaking persons in the western and southwestern United States. Data...
Side 183 - If a person is poor, there is a fair chanceone chance in five — that he is Negro or Puerto Rican or Mexican or Indian. There is a better chance — one in four — that he is in a home where there is no father. (The average income in such cases is one-third the average for intact families.) If he is poor, he is relatively uneducated (two chances out of three), and his cultural equipment is meager. You may think, therefore, that he needs better schools but, on the whole, the schools he attends are...
Side 184 - ... the high school graduate level. The study also showed that among the public aid recipients who reported a certain grade as their highest educational level the average achievement never equaled that grade. Those who reported the eighth grade as their highest grade averaged less than the fifth grade ; those who reported graduation from high school actually were functioning on a less than the seventh grade level.
Side 199 - Social class position predicts grades, achievement and intelligence test scores, retentions at grade level, course failures, truancy, suspensions from school, high school drop-outs, plans for college attendance, and total amount of formal schooling. It predicts academic honors and awards in the public school, elective school offices, extent of participation in extracurricular activities and in social affairs sponsored by the school, to say nothing of a variety of indicators of "success" in the informal...
Side 196 - ... associations and low levels of participation in such local voluntary associations as exist. 5. Relationship to Larger Society. Little interest in, or knowledge of, the larger society and its events; some degree of alienation from the larger society. 6. Value Orientations. A sense of helplessness and low sense of personal efficacy; dogmatism and authoritarianism in political ideology; fundamentalist religious views, with some strong inclinations towards belief in magical practices. Low 'need achievement'...
Side 123 - Recognizes story problem or plot structure 7. Gains skill in interpreting and appreciating types of language (figurative, idiomatic, picturesque, dialectal) 8. Senses subtle humor and pathos 9. Reacts to writer as well as writing a) Begins to identify elements of style b) Begins to identify his purpose in writing c) Begins to evaluate and react to ideas in light of the author's purpose 10. Forms and reacts to sensory images 11. Perceives influence of different elements within selection a) Notes impact...
Side 1 - The central purpose of this book is to review the present state of the art in adult basic education teacher training as a way of presenting in one document the central research base which undergirds the adult basic education teacher training programs in institutions of higher education.
Side 195 - Long periods of unemployment andlor intermittent employment. Public assistance is frequently a major source of income for extended periods. 2. Occupational Participation. When employed, persons hold jobs at the lowest levels of skills, for example, domestic service, unskilled labour, menial service jobs, and farm labour.