Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h8UDS9V29165; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <sf794b8b.015@langate.gsu.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: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2717] RE: Adult literacy and domestic violence, X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.4 Beta Status: RO Content-Length: 3431 Lines: 83 Thanks Jane for this great resource! Has anyone on this listserv read this book? Daphne >>> jhugo@proliteracy.org 09/29/03 05:43PM >>> Daphne and all who have been involved with this discussion, Daphne's question and an earlier reply in which the person wrote: <<An appropriate question could be how can one use literacy classes to build a healthy, healing community? Bertie Mo, Ph.D., MPH>> brings to my mind the work of World Education around the impact of violence and trauma on women's learning. During a 3-year period, Elizabeth Morrish, then a staff member with the Literacy Divison at World Education in Boston, worked with Jenny Horsman, a Canadian researcher and educator; and Judy Hofer, currently doing staff development work in New Mexico; and other adult educators to train participants in six differenct adult literacy organizations in the north east to create understanding and address the issues of violence and trauma. The work of this project is summarized for practitioners in a source book entitled, Take on the Challenge: A Source Book from the Women, Violence, and Adult Education Project. It was published in 2002 and is available for about $16.00 from World Education. The source book contains practical suggestions teachers can use with colleagues and students in classrooms as well as good background material drawn from Jenny Horsman's research in this area (see her book Too Scared to Learn: Women, Violence and Education [2000]published by Lawrence Erlbaum.). I've been to a couple of workshops the project people put on and one of the things that struck me about the project was its emphasis on "creating the conditions for learning" for women whose experience of trauma may make learning, goal setting, and follow-through a particular challenge. I think the book would help teachers understand how to acknowledge the issue in ways that are not so overwhelming for teachers, students, or programs. I'm not currently a classroom teacher, but in my work with Laubach Literacy and now ProLiteracy, I have seen how the issue of violence and trauma affects literacy program participants in lots of different ways. Many ABE administrators, teachers, and literacy volunteers are rightfully cautious about tackling issues of violence and trauma, but, by the same token they realize that the impact of violence on women's and men's participation. The book Take the Challenge provides some good guidance. Jane Hugo Jane M. Hugo Director of Special Projects ProLiteracy America 1320 Jamesville Ave. Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-422-9121 Fax: 315-422-6369 E-mail: jhugo@proliteracy.org -----Original Message----- From: Daphne Greenberg [mailto:alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu] Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2709] Adult literacy and domestic violence, incest, trauma, etc. Another interesting response. This sounds like a research project in the making! Has anyone been engaged in a project with adult literacy, where the teachers are trained on how to deal with topics such as domestic violence, incest, trauma, etc? Anyone interested in sharing with us? Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy MSC 6A0360 Georgia State University 33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6 Atlanta, GA 30303-3086 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu >>> bertiemo@yahoo.com 09/23/03 16:22 PM >>> Daphne:
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