Faculty Publications and Presentations
Publication Date
2009
Document Type
Article
Abstract
What learning occurs when higher education juxtaposes with an adult literacy program? This article addresses that question by qualitatively investigating and depicting one atypical scenario, a collaborative model between a university graduate Remedial Reading class and a local adult literacy coalition. The co-researchers utilized hybrid discourse and grounded theory to gain a new perspective on a familiar situation, the learning process that occurs within a university classroom. The educational implications are adult and higher education systems clearly need, and benefit from, the partnership. Graduate students reap great cognitive, pedagogical, and cultural learning gains and adult learners gain tutoring sessions with highly trained and motivated educators.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Jill A., "Meeting the Literacy Needs of Adult Learners through a Community-University Partnership" (2009). Faculty Publications and Presentations. 102.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/educ_fac_pubs/102
Comments
Published in the Journal of College Literacy & Learning 35 (2009): 12-18.