[AAACE-NLA] Educators for Social Justice?

Mon Jun 14 13:04:55 EDT 2010

Excellent recommendations.  The Change Agent's a publication that can help any classroom devoted to social justice issues but also to relevant issues that affect our communities whether you call them issues of social justice or not.

federico

Federico Salas-Isnardi
Adult Literacy Specialist, Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning
Member, Executive Board,  Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers
Adult Education Consultant - Leadership in Literacy and Education ~ Houston, Texas

"Diversity is God's gift to us.  Unity is our gift back to God."

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From: Mev Miller <mev at litwomen.org>
To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE <aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 6:32:56 AM
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I would also recommend:

The Change Agent: An Adult education Newspaper for Social Justice
A publication of the New England Literacy Resource Center
http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/

and 
WE LEARN  - Women Expanding LIteracy Education Action resource Network
WE LEARN is a community promoting women’s literacy as a tool that fosters empowerment and equity for women.
http://www.litwomen.org/welearn

Mev Miller
mev at litwomen.org

On Jun 12, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Federico Salas-Isnardi wrote:

> Susan, Paul, et al
>  
> Anyone interested in forming a committee or group of Educators for Social Justice should look at the models of two different groups I am a member of:
>  
> One is Teachers Against Prejudice (www.teachersagainstprejudice.org)
>  
> TAP's mission is to increase awareness of prejudice and discrimination and examine its causes and roots; open dialogue with and between students and educators from elementary school through college; and promote understanding and respect for all through the critical exploration and analysis of films, television, and other media.
> TAP works on all issues of discrimination whether based on race, religion, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or body image.
>  
> TESOL has an interest section called TESOLers for Social Responsibility.  This group used to be a caucus of TESOL members and now has recently become an interest section. The following statement comes from their webpage www.tesol.orgCommunities/Interest Sections/Social responsibility:
>  
> The Social Responsibility IS comprises TESOL members who are actively engaged in integrating language teaching with social responsibility, world citizenship, and an awareness of global issues such as peace, human rights, and the environment. The IS aims to promote social responsibility within the TESOL profession and to advance social equity, respect for differences, and multicultural understanding through education.
>  
> Membership in TAP is open.  Membership in the Social Responsibility IS of TESOL is limited to people who are members of TESOL.  I think these could be models for any adult educator interested in Social Justice issues.  
> 
> 
>  
> federico
>  
> Federico Salas-Isnardi
> Adult Literacy Specialist, Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning
> Member, Executive Board,  Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers
> Adult Education Consultant - Leadership in Literacy and Education ~ Houston, Texas
>  
> "Diversity is God's gift to us.  Unity is our gift back to God."
> 
>  
> 
> Visit the website for my new ESL Series: http://www.futureenglishforresults.com/
> 
> 
> 
> From: Paul Rogers <pumarosa21 at yahoo.com>
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE <aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
> Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 12:19:41 PM
> Subject: [AAACE-NLA] Educators for Social Justice?
> 
> Susan et al,
> Thanks for sending this. My immediate response is that we need something like the Counselors for Social Justice.  
> Is there anyone who has been working on forming a similar committee?
> Paul Rogers
> PUMAROSA.COM
>  
>  
>  
> and the American Counseling Association sent letters to the Arizona Governor stating our objections. Perhaps the AAACE would send a letter from the organization to protest these herendous actions. I am in consort with you Paul. Unless organizations strongly state their objection to this, I'm afraid individual protests are of little impact. I have sent a letter to the Governor, but am not a resident of Arizona so don't expect it to carry much weight.
> 
> Susan McGilloway 
> SSS Specialist/VIP Coordinator 
> Center for Adult and Family Literacy 
> Community College of Baltimore County 
> smcgilloway at ccbcmd.edu <mailto:smcgilloway at ccbcmd.edu>  
> 443-840-3933 
> 
> Paul Rogers
> 
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