CURRICULUM DEVELOPED
I. Mother Child Education Foundation
1. Basic and more advanced literacy and numeracy program
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., & Kuscul, H. (1995). Functional adult literacy program.
[This program was implemented in 17 provinces in Turkey and had reached about 150,000 participants, mostly women, who had no/minimal schooling because of economic and cultural hardships.
This program won the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy award in 2005; the emPOWER award in 2013 and US Library of Congress International Literacy Prize in 2014.
Books accompanying the curriculum [in Turkish]
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., Dagidir, F. & Kuscul, H. (2000) Functional literacy– Level 2: Student textbook: Mother Child Education Foundation, Istanbul.
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., Dagidir, F. & Kuscul, H. (2000) Functional literacy– Level 2: Teachers’ Guide. Mother Child Education Foundation, Istanbul.
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., Kuscul, H., Dagidir, F., Aslan, F., Canturk, M. & Yasa, M. (1995, 2000, 2003) Functional literacy– Level 1: Student textbook. Mother Child Education Foundation, Istanbul.
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., Kuscul, H., Dagidir, F., Aslan, F., Canturk, M. & Yasa, M. (1995, 2000, 2003) Functional literacy– Level 1: Teachers’ Guide. Mother Child Education Foundation, Istanbul.
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Oney, B., & Kuscul, H. (1995) A general overview to literacy development for teachers. Mother Child Education Foundation, Istanbul.
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., Gencay, H., Yasa, M. & Ural, N. (2010) Advanced Adult Literacy and Access to Knowledge– Level 2 textbooks:
- Life Skills
- Foundations of Literacy
- Mathematics
2. Online literacy program
“ACEV’de oku yaz” (2011) www.acevdeokuyaz.org
C) Video developed
Durgunoğlu, A.Y., & Oney, B. (1995). A videotape for teacher education for the Mother Child Education Foundation adult literacy program
3. TV program (2005)
Bizim sinif “our class” women’s entertainment and talk show with a literacy focus
4. Hayat Dolu Buluşmalar (2017)
A young women’s literacy, numeracy and empowerment program, with its student textbook and instructor’s book. http://hayatdolubulusmalar.acev.org/en/index.php
II) Center for Literacy, Philadelphia, PA (with Dr. Sagar, Ms. Fagan and Ms. Brown)
Civics and American History curriculum for adult ESL learners
III) Cloquet Middle School, Cloquet, MN (with Drs. Ocal and Welsh)
Biology, heredity online module for hybrid instruction