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[gspangenberg@caalusa.org]

Tom, Will you have a set of printed remarks available for those of us who are very interested in this but can't be there?  Thanks.  Gail


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Sticht <tsticht at znet.com>
Sent: Mar 7, 2004 6:01 PM
To: aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org
Cc: tsticht at aznet.net
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] International Women’s Day March 8, 2004


Celebrating International Women’s Day March 8, 2004
Tom Sticht

At this time we are in the midst of a series of United Nation’s and UNESCO
decades, years, and days that can be embraced together by adult literacy
educators and adult learners. These groups and many others concerned with
humanitarian endeavors around the globe have seen the need for the world’s
nations to expand and accelerate adult literacy education.  Nations of the
world are presently celebrating:

2000-2010 - the international Decade for a Culture of Peace
2003-2012  - the United Nation’s Literacy Decade
2004 -  the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery
and its Abolition
March 8, 2004  -  International Women’s Day

In recognition of these international thrusts for educational and other
humanitarian efforts I have incorporated concerns for the role of literacy
in freeing slaves, the urgent need to encourage peaceful relations amongst
peoples and nations of the world, and the needs of hundreds of millions of
women and girls for literacy education into a one day workshop that I call
LITERACY FREES THE WORLD: Tom Sticht’s Mahatma Gandhi Workshop  for 2004.

The workshop is oriented around the four freedoms that President Franklin
D. Roosevelt identified in 1941 as the rights of people world wide: 
Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want,
and Freedom from Fear. Within this topical framework, the workshop is
structured to show how to improve the quality of instruction in adult
literacy and family literacy services, to improve instructional strategies
for learning content knowledge, and for integrating literacy instruction
and occupational skills training to promote linkages with employers. The
general schedule and topics are:

9am-9:15 Introduction to the Workshop; Announcements

9:15-10:40 Teaching Adult Literacy for Freedom of Speech and Expression

A review of one hundred years of teaching methods for literacy development
to promote thinking, decision making, and political action for the
development of individuals and communities. This includes methods and
materials for teaching literacy to former slaves from the Freedman’s
Bureau during Reconstruction following the Civil War in the United States,
Cora Wilson Stewart’s, Wil Lou Gray’s and Septima Poinsette Clark’s
methods of teaching adults to read and write for citizenship and their
contributions to the Civil rights movements of the 1950’s and 60’s; Paulo
Freire’s methods of teaching for social change in Brazil; illustration of
research and writing by adult literacy and language learners in adult
continuing education programs in the United States, and the REFLECT
(Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques)
approach to teaching adult literacy, winner of a 2003 UNESCO literacy
Prize.

10:45-11:00  Break

11:00-12:00  Teaching Adult Literacy for Freedom of Worship & Tolerance of
Diversity

An examination of how the slave girl Harriet Jacobs learned to read and
how she taught another slave to read the Bible in the 19th century in the
Untied States; Frank Laubach’s missionary work and methods for teaching
literacy in the first half of the 20th century; UNESCO’s focus on literacy
education for the empowerment of women everywhere in the world; Teaching
literacy for global education and the teaching of tolerance for
differences among people around the world.

12:00-1:00  Lunch

1:00-2:30 Teaching Literacy for Freedom from Want

Mahatma Gandhi, Welthy Honsinger Fisher, India’s Malcolm Adiseshiah and
UNESCO’s "Functionality of Literacy" approach to adult literacy
development for economic growth of individuals, communities, villages, and
states. Case studies illustrating methods for integrating adult literacy
or English language education with occupational, vocational, and workplace
education and training. Using graphic organizers as aids in thinking and
problems solving in literacy education for personal and community
development.

2:30-2:45  Break

2:45-3:45 Teaching Literacy for Freedom from Fear
Integration of adult literacy education into programs promoting good
health practices across the lifespan ; literacy activities for
understanding and overcoming domestic/spousal abuse; literacy activities
for finding and keeping housing and meeting financial needs; literacy
education for reducing crime and criminal recidivism in jails and
correctional institutions.

3:45-4:00 Question and Answer Period; End of Workshop


For additional information including locations of speeches and workshops
on these topics see the message posted March 4, 2004 on the aaace-nla list
at
http://lists.literacytent.org/pipermail/aaace-nla/2004/000942.html


Thomas G. Sticht
International Consultant in Adult Education
2062 Valley View Blvd.
El Cajon, CA 92019-2059
Tel/fax: (619) 444-9133
Email: tsticht at aznet.net




























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