Lana's Writing Suggests A Powerful Metaphor For Literacy And Literacy Learning: Orientation

We can't treat all adult learners, like most mandated curricula treats them, as if they've come simply to "brush up" on basic skills and recover what is perceived as lost educational ground because, for students like Lana, they are discovering altogether new educational ground, new uses for literacy, for language, and for writing as learning. We might also consider Lana's case in relation to research on trauma, particularly psychologists like Pennebaker (1997, 2004; Pennebaker & Beall,

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