[MCAEnews] Fwd: WE LEARN - July News and Notes
The MCAE Advocate
mcaenews at lists.literacytent.org
Wed Jul 23 15:33:05 EDT 2008
Hi MCAE member and supporter,
I am forwarding the July newsletter from WE LEARN. In particular,
please note item 4, which announces a new book by MCAE Board Member,
Lorna Rivera, Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy & Poverty in the
Post-Welfare Era.
Kenny Tamarkin
Executive Director
MCAE
KTamarkin at mcae.net
978-979-1906
08orderflyer.pdf (563.6 Kb) attached
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From: WE LEARN welearn at litwomen.org
To: Mev Miller mev at litwomen.org
Sent: Tue 07/22/08 5:36 PM
Subject: Fwd: WE LEARN - July News and Notes
08orderflyer.pdf (563.6 Kb) attached
You have received this email because you have indicated an interest
in (or someone suggested you might like) receiving news from WE LEARN.
July News and Notes from WE LEARN -- Women Expanding Literacy
Education Action Resource Network
Topics in this issue:1) WE LEARN Anniversary Celebration Calendar
for 2008-2009 - NOW AVAILABLE2) 2009 Conference - SAVE the DATE -
Planning Committee members wanted3) 2009 Women's Perspectives
Selection Committee and Leadership Team now forming4) NEW BOOK -
Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare
Era5) Call to WE LEARN members for news items, articles, reviews,
artwork for Fall 2008 newsletter --------------------------------
1) WE LEARN Anniversary Celebration Calendar for 2008-2009 Celebrate
WE LEARN's 5th anniversary of promoting and supporting adult
basic/literacy education for women! This academic 16-month wall
calendar (Aug 2008 - Dec. 2009) features pictures from WE LEARN
events, reflections by students and educators on effects of WE
LEARN’s work, student writings, resource suggestions, tips for
women-centered curriculum and lesson planning, and more. Calendar
pages includes important holidays and dates from multiple cultures
with days and months in English, Spanish, and French. Price discount
for current WE LEARN members and Bulk Rates for classrooms are
available. To see sample pages and to download the order form, go to:
www.litwomen.org/08CalOrdFormv2.pdf [1]
2) 2009 Conference - SAVE the DATE - and - Planning Committee
volunteers wanted** March 5-7, 2009, Univ. of Rhode Island, Providence
Campus, Providence, RI **Conference Theme: Women's Leadership through
LiteracyHave you attended past WE LEARN Conferences? Don't the
committees and volunteers look like they're having a great time? Do
you have skills and talents you'd like to bring to the conference?
Please join the planning committee! We meet by phone and or in person
at least once a month until the conference. Planners help to create
the call for proposals, read and select workshops, design the program
schedule, organize volunteers and translators, organize and decorate
the space, help with fundraising and promotion -- and all kinds of fun
organizational details. Our work begins in late August / early
September. This is a volunteer position open to current and past WE
LEARN members, and committee members receive a discount on the
conference registration price. Students and teachers are especially
welcome to participate. If interested, please contact Mev Miller,
welearn at litwomen.org [2] or 401-383-4374.
3) 2009 Women's Perspectives Selection Committee and Leadership Team
now formingAre you a student who likes to read other students'
writings? Are you a teacher who enjoys supporting student writing
publications? Are you a writer, editor, or designer who likes to see
writings go from pieces of paper into quality published work? Do you
have experience with marketing? promotion? fundraising? Do you value
and support student leadership? We have plans to expand the Women's
Perspectives in the coming years. In the short-term, we need committee
members to help prepare the 2009 issue of Women's Perspectives. More
importantly, though, we also seek energetic people to join Leadership
Team. This team will guide the vision-making and planning to support
Women's Perspectives as an on-going cornerstone of WE LEARN's work. We
especially encourage ABE alums, students and student-teacher partners
to participate. If interested, please contact Mev Miller,
welearn at litwomen.org [3] or 401-383-4374.
4) NEW BOOK - Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the
Post-Welfare EraLorna Rivera -- one of the founding board members of
WE LEARN -- has a new book that will be available in the coming weeks.
Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare
Era is available for purchase from WE LEARN. Description: The
American adult education system has become an alternative for school
dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and
women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education
programs to receive aid. Very little has been published about
women’s experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the
programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the
first place. Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study,
the product of ten years’ active ethnographic research with formerly
homeless women who participated in adult literacy education classes
before and after welfare reform. Analyzing the web of ideological
contradictions regarding “work first” welfare reform policies,
Rivera argues that poverty is produced and reproduced when women with
low literacy skills are pushed into welfare-to-work programs and
denied education. To download an order form, go to:
www.litwomen.org/08orderflyer.pdf [4]
5) Call to WE LEARN members for news items, articles, reviews,
artwork for Fall 2008 newsletterNews? Women-Centered lesson plans?
Material reviews? Creative writing about women in literacy? Research
we should know about? Please send us items for the newsletter... The
writing doesn't need to be long - but we'd like your input, including
pictures or artwork.... If you would like to be a regular columnist,
or column editor, or take an active part in creating the bi-annual WE
LEARN newsletter -- we welcome your energy and participation. If
interested, please contact Mev Miller, welearn at litwomen.org [5] or
401-383-4374. DEADLINE for submissions to the Fall newsletter -
September 15, 2008
For more details on all our events and activities, please visit our
website: www.litwomen.org/welearn.html [6]
-----------------WE LEARN promotes women's literacy as a tool for
personal growth and social change through networking, education,
action, and resource development. WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy
Education Action Resource Network) is a participatory organization
guided by feminist/womanist principles, formally incorporated as a
non-profit 501(c)3 organization in November 2003 in Providence, RI.
Through conferences, publications, research, special projects and a
website of resources, WE LEARN works to increase awareness and support
of women's literacy issues, assists adult literacy teachers to support
women's learning, and provides opportunities and resources for
literacy learners to engage with women-centered materials.
--------------------
Mev Miller, Ed.D., Directorwelearn at litwomen.org [7]
WE LEARNWomen Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource
Networkwww.litwomen.org/welearn.html
182 Riverside Ave.Cranston, RI 02910401-383-4374
Links:
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[1] http://www.litwomen.org/08CalOrdFormv2.pdf
[2] mailto:welearn at litwomen.org
[3] mailto:welearn at litwomen.org
[4] http://www.litwomen.org/08orderflyer.pdf
[5] mailto:welearn at litwomen.org
[6] http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html
[7] mailto:welearn at litwomen.org
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