Jerald Wallulis is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is coeditor of Changing Social Science: Critical Theory and Other Critical Perspectives, also published by SUNY Press, and author of The Hermeneutics of Life History: Personal Achievement and History in Gadamer, Habermas, and Erikson.

• Preface Acknowledgements Section One: Considering the New Literacies 1. Of Work and EnglishMary Sue Garay 2. Toward a Working English for Twenty-First-Century Schools and CollegesMary Sue Garay 3. Work in Transition: Trends and ImplicationsStephen A. Bernhardt and Bruce W. Farmer 4. Technology, Education, and Workplaces of the Future: A Parent's ViewPatricia Sullivan Section Two: The New Workplace in Context 5. Beyond Basics: Workplace Skills in the New Manufacturing EnvironmentSally K. Robinson 6. Technical and Political Literacy: Training and Communicating in the Nuclear Power IndustryCarolyn Boiarsky and Sarah Liggett 7. Literacy Practices in the Healthcare Industry: The Challenge for TeachersPaul R. Meyer and Patricia Teel Bates 8. Workers at Risk: Or, How You Read and Write Might Save Your LifeBeverly Sauer Section Three: Classrooms Sensitive to the New Workplace 9. Transferring Writing Knowledge to the Workplace, Are We on Track?Anne Beaufort 10. Adjusting School Writing Curricula to Reflect Expanded Workplace WritingLarry Mikulecky 11. Tech-Prep Concepts and the English Classroom: All Students Must Be Work-ReadyGregory Johnson and Robert Taylor 12. Secondary Technical Communication: Moving Beyond Vocational EnglishMary Helen Steinauer and Janet Hyden 13. Workplace Literacy and the Two-Year College: Democratic VistasKatherine E. Staples and Pamela S. Ecker 14. Preparing All Students for the New Workplace Literacy: Avenues for English Instruction in High Schools and CollegesDavid A. Jolliffe 15. Creating Partnerships for Literacy in the College WorkplaceLibby Falk Jones 16. The Oregon Initiative: Pursuing America's Choice for High Skill SchoolingDel Schalock and Joyce M. Reinke Section Four: Bridges Between Education and Business 17. Partnerships: Intellectual and Institutional Relationships between Education and BusinessJeanne Marcum Gerlach and Dwane Kingery 18. Forgoing New Partnerships: Exemplary Business/School CoalitionsHelen Constantinides and Mary Sue Garay Contributors Index

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