Classic Research Papers on Learner-Centered Education

Making Meaning, Making Change: Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL by Elsa Auerbach

Problem-Posing at Work: English for Action by Elsa Auerbach and Nina Wallerstein

Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy

Civic participation and community action sourcebook: A resource for adult educators. Boston : New England Literacy Resource Center (www.nelrc.org). (ERIC NO ED 442 307)

Needs Assessment for Adult ESL Learners (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/Needas.html)

The Freirean Approach to Adult Literacy Education (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/FREIREQA.html)

The Language Experience Approach to Adult Literacy Education

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/LEA.html

A Learner-Centered Worker Education Program (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/learnercentered.html )

Project Based Learning and Assessment: A Resource Manual for Teachers Arlington Education and Employment Program. 1997. ERIC No. ED 442 306 at www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/REEPproj.pdf

Project-based Learning for Adult English Language Learners (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/ProjBase.html)

Beginning to Work with Adult English Language Learners: Some Considerations (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/beginQA.html)

CAELA online resource collection “What Beginning Teachers and Tutors of Adult English Language Learners Need to Know” (http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/beginning.html)