Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners by Maxine Burton. Sue thinks this is of interest to both teachers and teacher educators. Readers who “missed out on
To close this Open Edition, Yvonne Spare shares her thoughts on Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field by Alan Rogers and Brian Street. The authors analyse
grammar teaching or who feel the need to brush the differences between formal and informal up” will find this is a good place to start. Practitioners who choose to give sentence combining a go, would be most welcome to share with Journal readers how a session on sentence combining works in practice.
Our second review continues with the subject of writing. Doreen Chappell reviews Literacy and
the Practice of Writing in the 19th Century: A Strange Blossoming of Spirit by Ursula Howard. Via autobiographies and other personal
accounts, Howard (2012:1) explores “why and
how working-class people learned and practised writing and what their writing meant to them”. Doreen sees the relevance for practitioners and enthuses that “the ways in which people acquired their skills are an inspiration and reinforce innovative ideas”. Once the stresses of the summer term are over, you might wish to add this to your holiday reading list.
learning, consider success stories from various communities, and identify reasons that
education programmes fail. They then consider the implications for both policy and practice.
Yvonne enjoyed the “stories from the field”, particularly those with illustrations making the context more vivid. She believes this work gives us all food for thought.
Please note that the views expressed by individual contributors to the Journal do not necessarily reflect those of RaPAL.
The illustrations on the cover and with Beyond Functionality: Writing a Better Future are by Eleanor Shakespeare.
Eleanor is an illustrator who graduated this year with First Class Honours from The University of the West of England, Bristol. For commissions or feedback, please contact her at
hello@eleanorshakespeare.com or visit her website
eleanorshakespeare.com
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