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Author:   Mary Sue Garay ,  Stephen A. Bernhardt
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780791436769

ISBN 10:   0791436764
Pages:   383
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Section One: Considering the New Literacies 1. Of Work and English Mary Sue Garay 2. Toward a Working English for Twenty-First-Century Schools and Colleges Mary Sue Garay 3. Work in Transition: Trends and Implications Stephen A. Bernhardt and Bruce W. Farmer 4. Technology, Education, and Workplaces of the Future: A Parent's View Patricia Sullivan Section Two: The New Workplace in Context 5. Beyond Basics: Workplace Skills in the New Manufacturing Environment Sally K. Robinson 6. Technical and Political Literacy: Training and Communicating in the Nuclear Power Industry Carolyn Boiarsky and Sarah Liggett 7. Literacy Practices in the Healthcare Industry: The Challenge for Teachers Paul R. Meyer and Patricia Teel Bates 8. Workers at Risk: Or, How You Read and Write Might Save Your Life Beverly Sauer Section Three: Classrooms Sensitive to the New Workplace 9. Transferring Writing Knowledge to the Workplace, Are We on Track? Anne Beaufort 10. Adjusting School Writing Curricula to Reflect Expanded Workplace Writing Larry Mikulecky 11. Tech-Prep Concepts and the English Classroom: All Students Must Be Work-Ready Gregory Johnson and Robert Taylor 12. Secondary Technical Communication: Moving Beyond Vocational English Mary Helen Steinauer and Janet Hyden 13. Workplace Literacy and the Two-Year College: Democratic Vistas Katherine E. Staples and Pamela S. Ecker 14. Preparing All Students for the New Workplace Literacy: Avenues for English Instruction in High Schools and Colleges David A. Jolliffe 15. Creating Partnerships for Literacy in the College Workplace Libby Falk Jones 16. The Oregon Initiative: Pursuing America's Choice for High Skill Schooling Del Schalock and Joyce M. Reinke Section Four: Bridges Between Education and Business 17. Partnerships: Intellectual and Institutional Relationships between Education and Business Jeanne Marcum Gerlach and Dwane Kingery 18. Forgoing New Partnerships: Exemplary Business/School Coalitions Helen Constantinides and Mary Sue Garay Contributors Index

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This book is readable, accessible, and informative. There's nothing available to compare with it. I have thirty-six years experience teaching English and am presently in business consulting on scientific writing. I've redesigned half my workshops on the basis of this book! -- Bruce Appleby, Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale A hallmark text marking a major movement toward a new conception of pedagogy. -- Lisa J. McClure, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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Jerald Wallulis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is coeditor of Changing Social Science: Critical Theory and Other Critical Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press, and author of The Hermeneutics of Life History: Personal Achievement and History in Gadamer, Habermas, and Erikson

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