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Discussion: Poverty, Race, & Literacy </FONT></STRONG></P>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Monday, August 7-
Friday, August 11</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3><STRONG>Guest: Andy Nash- please see
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Next week, Monday August 7 - Friday
August 11, we have the great good fortune to have as a guest on the Poverty,
Race, & Literacy Discussion List Andy Nash, Staff Development Specialist at
the New England Literacy Resource Center at World Education. As you can
see from her bio below, Andy has experience in lots of different adult education
literacy areas, but her overarching concern has been relating literacy to
social justice and advocacy for participation in our democracy.
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Andy introduces this discussion by
asking *us* some questions (see paragraph 2 below). She intends to learn
from us as we learn from her.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Please read her bio and look up The
Change Agent (</FONT><A href="http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent"><FONT
face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>www.nelrc.org/changeagent</FONT></A><FONT
face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>) and<SPAN class=027022812-03082006><FONT
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Monday to participate in a lively discussion about literacy and social justice
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Donna Brian, Moderator</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Poverty, Race, and Literacy
Discussion List</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=3>Center for Literacy Studies at The
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<DIV><BR><BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Andy Nash's bio:<BR>My work in adult
education over the past 20 years has focused on building the capacity of adults
to use their developing skills to be more informed and active participants in a
democracy. I've brought this perspective to my work in ESOL, civic
participation, worker education, family literacy, standards-based education, and
many years of resource and professional development.<BR><BR>Having just finished
editing a new resource about bringing issues of social justice into the
classroom (see below), I am interested in thinking about the role such materials
can play in adult ed. Do you find resources for talking about issues such as
gentrification or globalization useful, or do you think educators should stick
to more immediately tangible issues such as advocating for more affordable
daycare, interpreters at clinics, etc.? In the short amount of time we have, is
it necessary to stick with the "local," which is often speaking up for better
community services, or are your students also interested in more general
problems such as growing incarceration rates, the war(s), or the current debate
over whether a president has the right to sidestep federal laws passed by
Congress? In the interest of being as participatory and responsive to students
as possible, does it matter if an issue gets raised by the teacher rather than
being initiated by the students? And, of course, what does it all have to do
with improving basic academic, language, and job skills?<BR><BR>These are all
questions we think about when we work on The Change Agent
(www.nelrc.org/changeagent), a biannual social justice newspaper for adult
educators and learners published by the New England Literacy Resource Center at
World Education. It was conceived in 1994 as a tool to educate and mobilize
teachers and learners to apply advocacy skills in response to impending federal
funding cutbacks for adult education.<BR>The first issue was so well received by
teachers that we continued to produce more issues. Now well established as a
unique resource within the adult education community, The Change Agent continues
to promote social action as an important part of the adult learning
experience.<BR>Each issue explores a different social justice theme through news
articles, opinion pieces, classroom activities and lessons, poems, cartoons,
interviews, project descriptions, and printed and Web-based
resources.<BR><BR>"Through the Lens of Social Justice: Using The Change Agent in
Adult Education" is a newly published book that celebrates The Change Agent's
first decade by gathering its best and most timeless pieces and by offering
guidance for educators in how to use the paper.<BR><BR>Chapter 1 introduces
readers to the kinds of articles and tools that are available in The Change
Agent and how they can be used. These<BR>include: "Ways In," short visual or
textual prompts that can be used with students to draw out their experiences,
questions, and concerns about social issues; "Issue Analyses," articles that
examine an issue (prisons, school vouchers, health care, etc.) by looking at how
our systems work and for whose benefit; and "Students Making Change," accounts
of students who have used what they have learned to take some kind of individual
or collective action outside the classroom. <BR><BR>Chapter 2 provides
guidance in how teachers can use the articles to build thematic curriculum
units, with sample units for ABE, ESOL, and GED. And Chapter 3 is a collection
of articles about the challenges of bringing social justice issues into the
classroom and the creative strategies that teachers have used to deal with those
challenges. To see sample pages from the book, go to
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