Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h33HkcM07456; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:46:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:46:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <35AE2D30.0DC9C75A.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:87] Re: process & positionality X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 17 Colleagues, I don't easily see how a discussion of sexuality emerges from a class on adult literacy or in staff development. I can understand how racism would, particularly from Lou Johnson's piece in FOB, also domestic violence, which makes learning difficult (neurologically, socially), but sexuality? Please give me some simple steps to understand this. The topic comes up on other list servs, too. By the way, I taught small children to 20 year olds for many years, trained teachers, was an administrator, I now work for a local family foundation, and I am trying to understand many aspects of this complicated field. Back to Lou Johnson's piece: the literacy program he describes came into being particularly because of racism--its initial purpose: To teach literacy so a group of black public housing residents could learn how to read government documents. So the *purpose* of the program may be integral to the direction the program takes. I can't make the jump to a discussion of sexuality *even though* many homosexual people live closeted lives--which is a social justice issue, and I know that. Thanks for helping me out. Andrea Wilder
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