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The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 2

reviewed by Garrett Murphy - 2002

Title: The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 2
Author(s): John Comings, Barbara Garner & Cristine Smith (Editors)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco
ISBN: 0787950629, Pages: 320, Year: 2001
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Israel Mendoza, the director of adult education for the State of Washington, introduces The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 2, by quoting Allan Quigley's admonition that we �Become literate about literacy." (p. xi) Indeed, this is what this series of reports is all about.� Its target audience is policymakers, scholars and practitioners of adult basic and secondary education, and English to speakers of other languages. �� Volume 2 actually sets some precedents by continuing a pattern begun in Volume 1 to, as the editors state in their introduction, "produce a journal of record for the field of adult learning and literacy..." (p. xv)� This pattern begins, according to editors John Comings, Barbara Garner and Cristine Smith, with a chapter that reviews "significant developments in the field during the year (in this case 1999),� includes a chapter describing the adult literacy system of another country (here Canada), and provides an annotated bibliography on a broad topic of current interest to the field (here, organizational development).� (p. xv)... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 104 Number 5, 2002, p. 883-887
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 10875, Date Accessed: 4/7/2020 12:19:51 AM

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