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The Turtle's Shell: Protecting the Life Underneath
Author(s) -
Garvey John,
Gordon John,
Kleinbard Peter,
Wasserman Paul
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.20063
Subject(s) - openness to experience , creativity , workforce , literacy , investment (military) , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , adult literacy , political science , economic growth , sociology , pedagogy , public relations , psychology , engineering , social psychology , economics , law , mechanical engineering , mathematics , politics , pure mathematics
In this chapter, four longtime adult literacy practitioners recount their pathways into the field in the late 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. Their stories highlight the creativity and openness that characterized literacy work in those years and point to what has been lost as the field has become dominated by the Workforce Investment Act and the National Reporting System.