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ADULT ESL: POLITICS, PEDAGOGY, AND PARTICIPATION IN CLASSROOMAND COMMUNITY.Trudy Smoke (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. xv+ 337. $71.95 cloth, $31.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

Viktorija Todorovska  and
Duane Roen
Viktorija Todorovska
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Duane Roen
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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Abstract

This collection explores recent developments in both community and college adult ESL education to meet the needs of adult ESL learners in current social and political contexts in North America. The 22 women and 2 men contributing to the volume argue persuasively and even passionately for programs that prepare adult ESL learners for citizenry in a 21st-century democracy. Collectively and individually the chapter authors argue eloquently that adult education programs need to assist learners not only in their academic lives but also in their professional, personal, and civic lives. These teacher-scholars demonstrate what it means to be a knowledgeable, committed, and effective educator.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 118 - 119
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2000 Cambridge University Press

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