Adult ESL/Literacy From the Community to the Community A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training

Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a project designed to train immigrants and refugees as adult ESL and native literacy instructors in their own communities. Beyond the story of this one project, the book is also a clear and powerful explication of the underlying principles and premises of the program model it describes: community leadership development, a participatory approach to literacy instruction and instructor training, native language adult literacy instruction, and collaboration.

Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Preface: What Is This Guidebook? The Context and Rationale. Project Structure and Participants. The Training Component. From Training to Teaching. Evaluation. So What? Appendices: The Spanish Literacy Component, Byron Barahona. Promoting Native Language Literacy at the HMSC. Sample Training Workshops.