Papers That Matter
These are some of the papers that inform the thinking of the Literacy Enquirers.
Some of them used to be available at Copian. We have put them here for our learning circles.
 Declaration of Persepolis
(1975) PDF
 Literacy: Charitable Enterprise or Politcal Right
(1977: Sidney Pratt, Naldi Nomez and Patricio Urzua) PDF
 Core Quaiity Standards for Adult Literacy
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Accountability Framework
for the Adult Literacy Education System
and Core Quality Standards for Programs
(1995: Ontario Literacy Programs and OTAB) PDF
 Core Quaiity Standards for Adult Literacy
List of Standards
(1995: Ontario Literacy Programs and OTAB) PDF
 Contested Ground
Performance Accountability in Adult Education
(1998: Juliet Merrifield) PDF
 Literacy, Welfare and Work
Adult Education in an Era of Welfare Reform
(1999: Janet Smith) PDF
 Processes of policy making and theories of public policy
Relating power, policy and professional knowledge in literacy agendas
(2004: Joseph Lo Bianco) PDF
 Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Adult Literacy
Power, Pedagogy, and Programs
(2004: Deborah D'Amico) PDF
 Negotiating Responsibilization
Power at the Threshold of Capable Literate Conduct in Ontario
(2013: Tannis Atkinson) PDF
 More by Tannis Atkinson Website
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