George Demetrion

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I began my work at LVGH in 1987. In 1996 I took a job at LVA national as Director of Materials Development and served as the main editor on the fourth edition of agency founder Ruth Colvin's I Speak English. I returned to CT in 1998 and worked for two years as Exec Dir for LVA-CT River East in East Hartford. I moved back to LVGH in 2000 as Director of Community-Based programming.

I write articles, book reviews, long listserv posts, and now a book, Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education. My interests are educational theory, the politics of literacy, philosophy, research traditions, cultural studies, organizational culture and theology. I never planned on becoming an adult literacy educator when I was growing up. My first inkling was to become a banker. My second was to be a lawyer.

At this time, I'm beginning to lay out the framework for an ethnographic study of literacy based on my years in Hartford, focusing predominantly on the learning process of Basic Literacy students. It's going to be a slow process in that I have several project pulling me.

George Demetrion
Director of Basic Literacy Programming
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford, in CT.