RESEARCH+BASED+LEADERSHIP,LITERACY

This course is designed to use the 4 Lenses of Co-constructivist learning and the 5 Critical Experiences of reading and writing adapted and applied to adult learners as developed through the University of Pennsylvania Center for Pennsylvania Literacy Network (PLN) Philosophy and Adult Learning DR. MORTON BOTEL, PLN SENIOR ADVISOR

= = There is overwhelming support from professionals and research for the co-constructivist framework. The most highly regarded expert opinion and evidence exist in six categories:

1. Position statements of the national professional education associations 2. Meta-analyses of the practices of outstanding classroom teachers 3. Long-term population achievement (the so-called natural experiments), 4. Meta analyses of experimental research (Meta analyses report the collective findings of a host of the available research) 5. Meta analyses of long term correlation studies 6. Cross-disciplinary convergence