Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h0GBv2P04802; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:57:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:57:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <628C5A2D-2948-11D7-A8D5-000393ABE4D2@litwomen.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "mev@litwomen.org" <mev@litwomen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8472] Fwd: Conference on Popular Education/ESL/Workers Rights- April 25-26 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2711 Lines: 75 Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Conference on Popular Education/ESL/Workers Rights- April > 25-26 > > The following message is being distributed to the NAAPAE networks on > behalf of one of the members of our networks.� Please pass it on. > ********************************************** > > Dear ESL and Labor friends, > Happy New Year! > Below is a SAVE THE DATE!! announcement for a conference on Workers' > Rights > & Popular Education within ESL, Literacy, & community organizing > programs > that I am helping to organize. Please let me know if you are > interested in > helping to organize the conference or have ideas for presenters. Please > also forward this to your co-workers, friends, or any one who would be > interested. I hope you'll be able to make this exciting conference! > Best, > Alison Ascher Webber > cell) 510-816-1585 > office) 510-261-6600 x19 > **************************************************** > > Popular Education and the Immigrant Workforce: Organizing for Language, > Literacy and Worker Rights > > The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the Center > for > Popular Education and Participatory Research will host a conference and > workshop on April 25th and 26th, 2003 designed to bring together labor > and > ESL educators, community groups and union members and staff who are > interested in applying popular education and participatory research to > their > work with immigrants. > > The April 25th conference will consist of a morning plenary and two > sets of > roundtable discussions, which will be open to participants. The > roundtable > discussions will include the following issues: > > How can participatory research or education within a union or community > group be an organizing tool? > How can you make an education program participatory? > How can an organization or union set up and fun an education or > research > program among its members? > How can popular education and participatory research methods be > applied to > ESL and literacy classes? > How can workers' rights be taught within ESL & literacy programs? > > The Friday conference will be followed by workshop on April 26th.� The > workshop will be tailored for English as a Second Language instructors > interested in writing immigrant workers' rights curriculum based on > student > experience. It will be led by Gail Weinstein, author of the widely > used and > recognized Collaborations ESL instruction series, and editor of the > Center > for Labor Research and Education's new ESL and Workers' Rights > curriculum. > > For more information, e-mail Laura Nicodemus of the Center for Labor > Research and Education at: nicmail@pacbell.net > > >
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