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 i9TDepa12689; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:40:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:40:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3FC21E3B.02FB4B09.0A349A3F@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:1686] RE: Critical Literacy 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: 1519 Lines: 27 Jackie, Thanks for the invite. Let's take David's email as a jumping off point. It is a general statement about practice. 1) Do most adult educators do this? Or is it an "extra" after lessons are done? 2) If it is a part of the classroom, what does it look like? Examples? 3) How do students react? 4) How might this tie into teachers' world views? Social views? Preferred classroom practice? The obvious characteristic about many adult literacy students is that they are at the bottom of the distribution (mixing metaphors, here) when it comes to money and jobs. They are more likely, but not always, to belong to a minority group (NALS). Everything has not gone well in their lives, and they are through literacy seeking a greater say in society, through jobs, better jobs,or literacy credentials. Do students seek social action or critical literacy? If not, then this is in the teachers' hands. Of course I may be mischaracterizing this social group--am I? Anyway, I am making a link between critical literacy, which was the basis for Freire's teaching, and what might go on in the classroom now. Of course, the agenda might not be explicit, it might be implicit (thank you, Eileen!), when a group of Vermont adult students goes to the legislature and asks for changes--you might call that the result of critical literacy (reported in FOB). No stand necessarily taken by the teacher but through literacy an understanding that these students are not "being protected" by the laws. Andrea
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