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 i27DvRI06641; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 08:57:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 08:57:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <404B9ADD@webmail.utk.edu> 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: jataylor <jataylor@utk.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1161] from Tom, Literacy Frees the World Tour Update X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Infinite Mobile Delivery (Hydra) SMTP v3.62.01 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: O Content-Length: 4096 Lines: 92 Literacy Frees the World Tour Update Colleagues: There has been a lot of interest in my 2004 literacy tour so I have increased the number of presentations for the tour. Here is an update as of March 5 of places, dates, and contacts for my 2004 tour of free speeches and workshops. I look forward to seeing a lot of friends and colleagues from various internet lists at these presentations which I call: LITERACY FREES THE WORLD: Tom Sticht’s Mahatma Gandhi Lecture/Workshop Series for 2004 On September 8, 2003 UNESCO’s International Literacy Award was presented for the 25th year. Earlier that year, on May 22, I completed my 25th year as a member of UNESCO’s International Jury that meets each year to select the winners of its literacy prizes. At a ceremony that day, Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO presented UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Medal to me in recognition of my 25 years as a voluntary member of UNESCO’s International Literacy Prize Jury. This year, to celebrate 25 years of the International Reading Association Literacy Award and my receipt of the Mahatma Gandhi Medal I am conducting a speaking tour of locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to focus attention on the critical need for adult literacy education around the world. With so much attention now being given by government agencies and international organizations around the world to accountability, measurable outcomes, standardized testing, and "scientific" evidence-based programming, it is easy to lose sight of the deeper meanings and purposes of adult literacy education. To focus on this deeper meaning, I have based the theme for this tour on the January 6, 1941 event in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the U. S. Congress and gave what has come to be known as the "Four Freedoms" speech. In his speech, Roosevelt identified four freedoms that he considered to be rights of people world wide: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Also, during the decade of the 1940s, Mahatma Gandhi of India met at different times with Frank Laubach and Welthy Honsinger Fisher of the United States and convinced them to promote the spread of literacy as a non-violent method to achieve freedom from colonization for the people of India. My 2004 tour celebrates the convergence of the launch in 2003 of the United Nations Literacy Decade with its theme of Literacy as Freedom, Gandhi’s advocacy of adult literacy education as a non-violent means of achieving freedom for India, 25 years of the International Reading Association’s Literacy Award, and my receipt of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Medal. The tour includes keynote speeches and workshops organized around the theme of FDR’s Four Freedoms. For those who may be interested in attending one of these presentations, following is a list of dates, places, and contacts for the tour as of 3 March 2004: Canada: 1. May 6: British Columbia, Castlegar, Contact Yvonne Chard at ychard@dccnet.com United Kingdom: 2.October (dates to be announced): London, Contact Ursula Howard at u.howard@ioe.ac.uk United States: 3. May 4: Nevada, Reno, International Reading Association Meeting, Contact Annual Conference at www.reading.org 4. June 11: Pennsylvania, West Middlesex, Contact Joy Zamierowski at jzamierowski@stairwaysbh.org 5. July 27: Kansas, Manhattan, Contact Diane Whitley at dwhitley@ksbor.org 6. July 28: Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Contact Brenda Solomon at bss1268@okstate.edu 7. August 10: Texas, Austin, Contact Donna Bentley at valctx@yahoo.com 8. August 24: Maine, Orono, Contact Evelyn Bealieu at evelyn.bealieu@umit.maine.edu 9. September 10: Ohio, Columbus, Contact Maureen O’Rourke at morourke@ohioliteracynetwork.org 10. September 16: Michigan, Detroit, Contact Daphne Ntiri at dntiri@aol.com 11. October 6: Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Contact Peggy Mays at pmays@proliteracy.org Thomas G. Sticht International Consultant in Adult Education 2062 Valley View Blvd. El Cajon, CA 92019-2059 Tel/fax: (619) 444-9133 Email: tsticht@aznet.net
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