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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Aims, Purposes, and Intentions of This Book | |
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The Field of Adult Basic Skills Development | |
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The Adult Development Team Study | |
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The Content of this Book | |
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Contributions of this Research to the ABE/ESOL Field | |
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Understanding Constructive-Developmental Theory | |
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The Nature of Transformational Learning: Development of Self | |
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Kegan's Constructive-Developmental Perspective on Adulthood | |
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Kegan's "Ways of Knowing" | |
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Why Ways of Knowing Matter in the Classroom | |
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The Holding Environment: A Dynamic Context for Growth | |
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Summary | |
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Research Method | |
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Site and Participant Selection | |
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Research Questions: What Did We Want to Learn? | |
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Data Collection | |
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Data Analysis | |
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Summary | |
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The Polaroid Learning Site | |
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About Polaroid | |
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About CEI's Adult Diploma Program | |
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The 1998-1999 CEI Program at Polaroid | |
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Cohorts and Collaborative Learning Defined | |
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Summary | |
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"Not I Alone": The Power of the Cohort and Collaborative Learning | |
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"Everybody Thinks Differently": The Cohort as a Holding Environment for Learning and Teaching | |
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"Like a Family": The Cohort as a Holding Environment for Emotional Support | |
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"I Have a Better Appreciation for People": The Cohort as a Holding Environment for Perspective Broadening | |
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Conclusion | |
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"Good Teachers Understand Their Students": A Developmental View of Learners' Expectations of Their Teachers | |
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How Learners Conceptualized Teacher-Learner Relationships | |
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Summary and Conclusions | |
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"We're Trying to Get Ahead": Changes in Learners' Conceptions of Themselves, Their Skills, and Their Relationship to Work | |
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How Program Learning Influenced Learners' Work Lives | |
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Conclusion | |
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Implications of a New Pluralism for Program Design, Curriculum Development, Practice, Policy, and Research | |
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Designing Programs that Center on the Cohort and Collaborative Learning | |
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Creating a Developmental Curriculum | |
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Contextualizing the Curriculum: Goal Setting | |
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Conceptualizing Competency as a Developmental Continuum | |
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Creating Opportunities for Development in the Classroom: Teaching Practice | |
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Policymaking in Support of Developmental Learning | |
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Promising Avenues for Developmental Research | |
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An Appetite for Learning | |
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Epilogue. Graduation: A Red-Letter Day | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |