In Forsaken Hands How Theory Empowers Literacy Learners

Adult literacy learners, suggests La Vergne Rosow, become empowered by the "inside information" on learning to read and write, otherwise known as theory. In Forsaken Handstakes readers behind the scenes, into the lives of non-reading adults, revealing their thoughts and emotions as they learn to read and write. Each chapter leads into a private world, a world often steeped in humiliation and terrible secrets. Each world is different - isolated from all others, yet alike as it reflects the day-to day issues that entrap the illiterate attempting to survive in a literate world. As an adult literacy teacher, Rosow taught literacy and language acquisition theory as a vehicle for teaching poor and non-readers to read and write. She argues that if we foster the power of theory in every classroom anyone who could talk would learn to read and write.Rosow, La Vergne is the author of 'In Forsaken Hands How Theory Empowers Literacy Learners' with ISBN 9780435081164 and ISBN 0435081160.