TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Letter to the Reader
• INTRODUCTION
• "WEARING THE SILVER SHORTS": METHODS AND COLLABORATION by Diana Twiss
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Research Project
  • Proposal to the BC Adult Literacy Cost-Shared Program (ALCSP)
  • Proposal to the Vancouver Foundation
  • Research Team Meetings
  • Group Dynamic
  • Role of Coordinator
  • Collaboration
  • Data Collection
    • Autobiographical writing as data
    • Journaling and its challenges
    • Dropping a data source
    • Interviewing the instructors
  • Data Analysis
    • Coding the data
    • Using the themes
    • Framing the data
  • Writing Collaboratively
    • The methods chapter
    • The literature review
  • Conclusion
  • References