[NLA] Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL

[Eileen Eckert]

Any effort to increase educational attainment for LEP and/or at-risk youth 
needs to address (or rather, help them address) their unique 
issues--questions of identity, their place in the world, making a future for 
themselves where no one they know has gone before. I'd encourage everyone to 
listen to Lucia Lopez's story on the website for This American Life (you can 
find it through WBEZ in Chicago's website). It was on last week's show, 
"What are you looking at?" The story makes a very good case for including 
theatre and the arts in education for youth. And the the Pedagogy and 
Theatre of the Oppressed organization and annual conference based on the 
work of Paolo Friere and Augosto Boal is a forum for ongoing development of 
"educational" theatre with a goal of personal and social transformation.

Whatever happens, it needs to provide a mirror for the learner to see and 
further create her/himself in dialogue with others, it needs to respect and 
nurture their burgeoning autonomy, and it needs to be fun! Adults tolerate 
too much boredom in pursuit of what's "good" for us. I've seen quite a few 
kids in ABE/GED and ESL classes, and I've seen quite a few backsides on the 
way out the door--not from <my> classes of course ;)--and they generally 
don't put up with what's boring.





>From: AndresMuro at aol.com
>Reply-To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
>To: nla at lists.literacytent.org
>CC: tsticht at aznet.net
>Subject: Re: [NLA] Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL
>Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:52:33 -0400
>
>Hey Tom: I am strongly advocating the incorporation of public health into 
>education at all levels from k-12 to adult literacy and the collaboration 
>between public health educators, teachers and other representatives of both 
>fields towards this goal. I have presented arguments in favor of this at 
>the HHS Office of Minority Health Conference and I have just received a 
>grant form pfizer to explore this idea and train teachers and health 
>educators in several communities. This is something that I would advocate 
>and push for. HHS and some state adult ed departments have expressed an 
>interest in this idea, but there is no serious investment in this effort 
>yet. If you need more details or info about this effort, let me know.
>
>Andres
>
>In a message dated Thu, 1 Aug 2002 4:29:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas 
>Sticht <tsticht at znet.com> writes:
>
> >NLA Colleagues:                     August 1, 2002
> >
> >Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL
> >
> >Recently, representatives of a large private charitable foundation
> >contacted me and set up a meeting for us to get together. The purpose of
> >the meeting was to ask me to spend some time advising the foundation on
> >how it might most usefully put $100 million over a five year period ($20
> >million per year) into work on young adult (16-24 years if age) literacy
> >education. A lot of the foundation’s interest is in helping low English
> >proficient (LEP) learners.  Ideally, the work would help the young adults
> >develop their language and literacy abilities while also producing useful
> >new knowledge for the field of adult education.
> >
> >Given the relatively low investments presently being made in this type of
> >work, I have been impressed that a private foundation would be interested
> >in it. I’m wondering what kinds of strategic ideas members of the NLA 
>list
> >might have for this type of activity. Should it complement and/or extend
> >NCSALL, NIFL, and OVAE/DAEL work, and if so, how, or are there new
> >directions that should be taken?
> >
> >I thought it might be of interest to list members to conduct a bit of a
> >discussion about this activity on the list. Alternatively, you can 
>contact
> >me off the list at tsticht at aznet.net with your comments.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Tom Sticht
> >
> >
> >
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