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 iA7FbMM19827; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:37:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:37:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <0D84F84E.21D9AA57.0A349A3F@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:1713] 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: 1552 Lines: 18 (Small interlude for talk with roofer.) I did discuss, through example, poor people who were social activists, meaning they changed their own life situations. The first was Septima Clark who started the Citizenship Schools. A notch above the people she worked most directly with in social advantage, she made contact with Myles Horton, formerly poor, who with outside support and a voracious reading habit, had made it into the social activist arena. Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the leading activists in the South, grew into adulthood chopping cotton. There is also a case study in adult literacy of a group of women in El Salvador who lived in a refugee village and learned how to read and write. Their teacher was a white woman from Colorado. In these cases it is useful, it seems to me, to note who got the activists activated, there is a whole literature on people one notch above subsistence who turned into social activists and helped those living just a notch lower than they were. And this can cut both ways, middle class folks who lead poor people into suicide bombings, etc. Hmmmm. Something about the Bolshevik Revolution.... Frankly, though, if you are living literally at subsistence, then any sort of change may spell death. There are also poor highly literate people who just want to survive, e.g., ""Growing Up Literate," Taylor/Dorsey-Gaines. Also, I think certification can be a very good thing when the profession teaches teachers how to teach reading and writing better--how to develop skilled readers, faster. Andrea
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