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 h33IFfM10174; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:15:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:15:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4033DC08.22EB4952.0AB94E44@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: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:88] 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: 1420 Lines: 29 How about showing pictures of couples holding hands and walking with their children. Andres In a message dated 4/3/2003 12:46:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, AWilder106@aol.com writes: >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 > > -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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