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 j5EEofG03933; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <BE01C4D08AF5E04BB65D8C551F5472E8DA11ED@rtpwexc05.RCC_NT.RTI.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: "Marti, Norma" <nam@rti.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10937] RE: Globalization materials X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 4044 Lines: 75 Elsa et al, I've just completed a course offered through a "Catholic Christian" lens entitled "Just Faith." There were a number of excellent titles that we read and discussed in a small group (8) that met weekly for 30 weeks. If you'd like all the titles, please e-mail me at my home e-mail (below). Although the readings may not be appropriate for an ELS student there was one text (for the advanced/higher students, perhaps), "Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World" by Bill Bigelow (Editor), Bob Peterson (Editor), in particular that would be excellent for the ESL (ABE/advanced ESL) classroom. It contained "short" (1-2 pages) vignettes/stories with pictures or graphics that demonstrate the reality of globalization. It is EXCELLENT and I would recommend it in a heart beat. It does not take a faith-based perspective per se. The author states in his summary: "When I first began to teach about "globalization" I discovered that although there was lots of information on sweatshops, child labor, environmental crises, the World Trade Organization, the Third World Debt crisis, and the like, there was no resource that effectively linked the world's problems. With this book, Bob Peterson and I try to address that. We offer teachers, students, social justice activists, and the general public easy-to-understand ways of seeing how today's world is connected." We need this in our public schools at all levels but especially with our adult learners and new immigrants. We are a humanity of interconnectivity... Norma Martí marti_n@bellsouth.net ESL Instructor Wake Technical Community Collage Raleigh, NC -----Original Message----- From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Elsa Auerbach Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10930] Globalization materials We are writing to request your help with an initiative to develop adult education materials related to globalization. We are an informal group of adult educators with a shared interest in infusing analysis of globalization into our various curricula and organizational activities. Although globalization is not new (existing since the times of colonialism and taking various forms through the centuries), our focus is on the increasing dominance of transnational corporations in controlling the global economy. We feel that a critical understanding of the impact of globalization on communities, work, and families is necessary both for ourselves as educators and for ABE/ESOL students. As a first step in develop strategies for connecting economic analysis with the day-to-day realities of learners¹ lives, we need to inform ourselves about what others have done in this regard. We are writing in hopes that you can send us information about resources, materials, and initiatives/organizing work in relation to the many manifestations of globalization, including: - changes in the job market, types of jobs available - trade, tariff agreements, open markets, NAFTA, CAFTA - structural adjustment - forced migration - privatization, deregulation (utilities, water, etc.) - dismantling of social services (welfare, health care, etc.) - concentration of wealth, growth of poverty - sweatshops, child labor - ecological and environmental damage - decimation of human rights - remittances In the long term, we hope to work on strategies, materials, and curriculum to share with other educators. If we are able to secure funding, we also hope to bring together people who are active in this kind of work to strategize together. Please email this request to anyone who may have relevant information (spread the word!). Responses can be sent to: Elsa.auerbach@umb.edu Thank you. Elsa Auerbach, University of Massachusetts/Boston Rebecca Johnson (Cooperative Economics for Women), Boston, MA Stephania Lavalas, AFAB (Association of Haitian Women in Boston), Boston, MA Mirna Merced, Centro Presente, Cambridge, MA Laurie Sheridan, World Education, Boston, MA
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