Title(s): Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Affiliations:

American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
American Educational Research Association
Commission on Adult Basic Education
International Reading Association
New Jersey Association for Lifelong Learning

Research interests:

Adult literacy education, professional development, practitioner inquiry, policy.

Recent publications:

Belzer, A. (in press).  Improving Professional Development Systems:  Recommendations from the Pennsylvania Adult Basic and Literacy Education Professional Development System Evaluation.  Adult Basic Education 15 (1).

Belzer, A. (2004).  “It’s not like normal school:”  A new look at the role of experience in adult learning.  Adult Education Quarterly 55(2), 41-59.

Belzer, A., & St. Clair, R.  (in press).  Back to the Future:  Implications of the neo-positivist research agenda for adult basic education.  Teachers College Record.

Belzer, A.   (2003).  Toward broadening the definition of impact in professional development or ABE practitioners.  Adult basic education 13 (1), 44–59.

Belzer, A. (2002).   “I don’t crave to read:”  School literacy in adulthood.  Journal of adolescent and adult literacy 46 (2).