[Nesabes] FW: [SpecialTopics 556] What International Literacy Programs OfferPrograms in the U.S.

Fri Aug 31 13:31:03 EDT 2007

We thought you might be interested in a couple of upcoming guest
discussions on the National Institute for Literacy's discussion lists.
Here is the first on International Literacy Programs.

Carol

Carol Bower

Director, Northeast SABES

Northern Essex Community College

45 Franklin Street

Lawrence, MA 01840

978-738-7301

"SABES: Training Leaders in Adult Basic Education"

For more information on the System for Adult Basic Education Support
(SABES) please go to: sabes.org/northeast <http://sabes.org/northeast> 

For information on upcoming SABES offerings or to register for events
please go to: calendar.sabes.org/northeast
<http://calendar.sabes.org/northeast> 

****************

Tim Ponder, Co-Director

tponder at zhost.net

Kaye Beall, Co-Director

kaye_beall at worlded.org

Region 1 Resource Center

National Institute for Literacy

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Special Topics Colleagues,

I hope you will join us on September 7th -14th, 2007 for the discussion:
What International Literacy Programs Offer Programs in the U.S.  

We will talk with adult literacy educator experts who have experience
with programs in the U.S. and in other countries.  We will explore with
them what they have learned in other countries that may be useful to
programs in the U.S.  As the theme of this year's International Literacy
Day, on September 8th, is health literacy, we will also explore the
intersection in their work of health and literacy.

Guest Biographies and Guests' Suggested Readings for this Discussion

Dr. Erik Jacobson

Erik Jacobson is an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in
New Jersey, where he works in the Early Childhood, Elementary and
Literacy Education Department. One of his research interests is the
goals that teachers and students set for themselves in Japanese adult
basic education classes (literacy and Japanese as a Second Language). He
has been looking at this topic for almost 10 years, and he recently
returned from visiting programs in Osaka and Nara. Erik is also the
co-area leader of the Adult Literacy Education Wiki section on World
Literacy and Nonformal Education, and he maintains a page on world
literacy news.

Suggested Web sites:

Sample Story

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=305624

Context for Japanese ABE

"Multicultural"

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070327zg.html

Buraku Discrimination

http://blhrri.org/blhrri_e/blhrri/buraku.htm

Organization

Japan Society for the Study of Adult and Community Education

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jssace/index-e.html

Dr. John Comings

John is a senior research associate and lecturer on education at
Harvard's Graduate School of Education and was director of the National
Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) from 1996
to 2007. Before HGSE and NCSALL, He spent 12 years as vice president of
World Education in Boston. He has worked in Asia, Africa, and the
Caribbean, and he lived for 6 years in Nepal and 2 years in Indonesia.
In his international work, he has helped design, implement and evaluate
adult literacy programs and skill training programs.

Suggested Reading: 
http://www.worlded.org/docs/Publications/teaching_adults_to_read.pdf

Dr. Ujwala Samant

Ujwala Samant is director of Learning for Life UK, a small NGo working
in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the UK. Under her leadership, LfL
has stabilized financially and added new, larger projects and more than
tripled their annual income. She was a senior researcher at the National
Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy at Rutgers
University, USA. Her research foci include gender, immigrant education,
ESOL, learner engagement and voice. She has taught at the International
Literacy Institute at the

University of Pennsylvania, and been a consultant in the field of
development, education and gender. Her doctoral research examined the
links between literacy and social change amongst women in Mumbai slums.
She received The UK Asian Woman of Achievement 2007 award for Social and
Humanitarian work

Barbara Garner

Known on NIFL's discussion lists as the editor of "Focus on Basics",
Barbara Garner led the development of non-profit World Education's adult
literacy efforts in Africa from 1998 through 2004, providing technical
assistance around teacher training and curriculum development as well as
leadership and program design. Her work took her to Guinea, Mali, Benin,
and more recently Egypt, where she consulted on their national adult
literacy assessment system.  Earlier in her career she worked on
non-formal education programs and refugee education programs in
Indonesia, Thailand, and Nepal.

Suggested Reading: to get a feel for adult literacy in West Africa read
"Creating Curricula for Challenging Circumstances" from Focus on Basics 
http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=199

Pamela Civins

Pamela Civins has worked in the field of nonprofit management, formal
and nonformal education for over 15 years internationally and in Boston,
Massachusetts.  Currently, she is the Executive Director of Boston
Partners in Education, an organization that enhances the academic
achievement and nurtures the personal growth of Boston's public school
students by providing them with focused, individualized in-school
volunteer support.  Pamela has been working exclusively in the US for
the past three years.  Prior to her work being focused on K-12 urban
education, she provided coordination and managerial oversight of
nonformal education and literacy programs for girls and women in Nepal,
India and Pakistan.  For eight years, she worked with the nonprofit,
World Education, Inc., both in the US and abroad.  She coordinated a
women's literacy program and was based in Kathmandu, Nepal for two yeas.
Pamela worked extensively in India supporting a collaboration with World
Education and the Indian-based nongovernmental organization, PRIA, on a
the Women's Empowerment Through Literacy and Livelihoods Development
Project, an integrated literacy and livelihoods development program that
took place in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
She also provided support to a women's literacy program in Pakistan.
Pamela received her BA from the University of Colorado, a MIIM (Masters
in Intercultural & International Management) from the School for
International Training, and an M.Ed. with a focus on International
Education Policy from Harvard University.

Recommended readings. 

http://www.worlded.org/docs/Publications/teaching_adults_to_read.pdf

http://www.iiz-dvv.de/englisch/Publikationen/Weltbank/inhalt.htm

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001200/120067Eo.pdf

http://www.globalhealth.org/publications/contents.php3?id=2&issue=116

Brenda Bell

Brenda Bell, for many years Associate Director of the Center for
Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee and Coordinator of the EFF
National Center, is currently an education advisor with the Global
Learning Group of the Education Development Center (EDC).  In 2004 and
2005, she provided support to EDC's Afghanistan Literacy and Community
Empowerment Project which links literacy with governance and economic
development activities in 200 rural villages. For the past year, she has
been technical advisor to EQuALLS, an education quality and livelihood
skills program in over 900 barangays in the western Mindanao area of the
Philippines. Additionally, Brenda assists with program assessment,
design and development activities in other countries. With many years of
experience in nonformal and adult education in the U.S., Brenda (a
former Peace Corps volunteer) is enjoying the opportunities and
challenges of working outside of the U.S. She lives in Maryville, TN.

Suggested Reading: Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to planning,
implementing and delivering literacy initiatives by Juliet Merrifield
Juliet McCaffrey Juliet Millican  Oxfam, September 30, 2007 [For this
discussion this book will be available free online]

Juliet Merrifield

Juliet Merrifield is Principal of the Friends Centre, an independent
adult education centre in Brighton, England.  She has worked as an adult
educator and researcher for the last 25 years, in the USA, England and
Ireland.  She was Director of the Learning from Experience Trust in
London, and of the Center for Literacy Studies at the University of
Tennessee, USA.  

David J. Rosen

Special Topics Discussion Moderator

djrosen at comcast.net

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