Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j2SDKgG17927; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:20:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:20:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <0IE200CEYCXFWTL1@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Barbara Garner" <b.garner4@verizon.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1340] RE: Fear of Finishing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Status: O Content-Length: 3605 Lines: 89 Actually, the GED provides economic value to many GED holders. It's less valuable to those who were doing well academically in high school than to those who left high school with limited academic skills. It's also the gateway, quite often, to higher education. For information on this that you can share with your students, see "Beyond the GED: Making Conscious Choices about the GED and Your Future" at http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu/teach.html I suspect reluctance to succeed has to do with the cultural shift becoming a person "with an education" demands. Learners have to take on a new persona among their family and friends. I think the need to make this cultural shift is a major barrier to completing a GED. In a program I worked with for four years in the early 1990s, we found that women's partners often actively worked to prevent the women from succeeding (via violence sometimes)...Succeeding could mean the beginning of independence. We counseled students from the beginning of the program about this and provided them with resources, but this doesn't mean we were always successful in heading off clashes. Have others experienced this? Barb Garner Editor, Focus on Basics. -----Original Message----- From: nifl-fobasics@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-fobasics@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Varshna Narumanchi-Jackson Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1339] RE: Fear of Finishing I guess I wonder how learner persistence is affected by the perceived value of the GED. What if it isn't a fear of finishing and moving on to the next phase? What if the student questions the value of obtaining the GED relative to her other life experiences and determines that the GED is just a piece of paper? Do we reframe the original question as an issue of the adequacy of the adult education system to create value in the GED? Or, has the adult education system somehow reduced the value of the GED to that of a piece of paper? Varshna Narumanchi-Jackson Austin, TX on 3/26/05 6:56 PM, Michele Anne Craig at shellcraig@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Cindy, > > I have students like this too. I always tell them, though, that they have > accomplished a lot regardless. Whether or not they have the piece of paper, > they now have the knoweldge. And that is what really counts. > > Michele Craig > Woodland Adult School > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Cindy Ferguson <fergusonc@cravencc.edu> >> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> >> Date: 3/24/2005 10:27:02 AM >> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1330] Fear of Finishing >> >> Has anyone ever come across research involving basic skills students who > seem to have a fear of finishing (getting their GED). I have personally > worked with many students who are very motivated to get their GED and come > extremely close, maybe within one test of finishing, and then they > disappear. It seems as though many are afraid to finish. Maybe they're > afraid of what comes next - a job, college, just being out on their own. > Maybe they're afraid of succeeding - putting themselves above another > family member, feeling they're not worthy of success? I'm just curious if > anyone else has experienced this or read anything about it. Also, are > there any suggestions/strategies for getting beyond this fear? >> Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated! >> Cindy Ferguson >> >> >> www.cravencc.edu >> Cindy Ferguson >> ABE/GED Coordinator >> Craven Community College >> 800 College Court >> New Bern, NC 28562 >> 252-638-1587 >> fergusoc@cravencc.edu > > > >
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