Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id NAA04555; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:43:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <C01DFFE86D46D411A91400D0B7848779384904@mail.doe.mass.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Monteiro, Marilyn" <MMonteiro@doe.mass.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:848] RE: UNESCO, Women and Literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Status: O Content-Length: 2370 Lines: 55 I've checked the website you sent around. Thanks Daphne so much for this wealth of information. Dr. Marilyn Monteiro, Adult & Community Learning Services Massachusetts Department of Education Malden, MA. 02148 781-338-3879 -----Original Message----- From: Daphne Greenberg [mailto:ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:846] UNESCO, Women and Literacy I thought that some of you may be interested in the following email that Tom Sticht sent me: Daphne: I will be back at UNESCO in Paris July 22-28, 2000 for my 22nd year as a member of the International Literacy Jury that selects UNESCO's literacy prizes awarded each year on September 8. During all these years, in keeping with UNESCO's education policies, the Jury members have encouraged women's literacy by paying particular attention to how programs submitted for prizes have involved the literacy development of women and girls. After the first of the year I will start work on a report of UNESCO's International Reading Association Literacy Awards and how they have encouraged what I call "multiplier effects" of literacy, with a focus on the intergenerational transfer of literacy and education for children that arise from investments in women's literacy education. From a policy perspective, the concept of getting multiple returns to investment in women's education has been a strong argument for investments in family literacy (Teach the Mother and Reach the Child is the title of a report for UNESCO that Barbara McDonald and I wrote for UNESCO in 1991) and other programs that tend to engage women at rates beyond what typical adult programs may accomplish. But with an estimated 1,000,000,000 adult illiterates in the world and two-thirds of them women, we clearly have a long, long way to go before women achieve their universal right to literacy. Namtip's report gives insights from Africa about this global struggle for women's literacy. Go to the following web site for UNESCO information about women, literacy and violence by Namtip Aksornkool of UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/literacy/index.html Daphne Greenberg Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 Fax: 404-651-1415 Ph: 404-651-0400 E-mail: alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu
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