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 iADH4f027081; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <397E918AA64A9D4586C3B78A056618D30243D52F@srv-exch2k.bristol.mass.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: "Gabb, Sally S." <sgabb@bristol.mass.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1743] RE: FW: critical literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1761 Lines: 28 Hi all - Andrea, important to get these topics in to those who isolate 'research' issues from reality for women around the globe. Am a board member for WE LEARN - women and literacy network started by Mev Miller - we are holding our second annual conference Mar. 11-12 in Providence at Brown. Guests include Jenny Horsman, Mary Belencky - take note all, see details on WE LEARN website - www.litwomen.org/welearn.html. My feeling - gender and brain can't be separated from gender and experience of class/caste - definitely important for ABE. Sal -----Original Message----- From: AWilder106@aol.com [mailto:AWilder106@aol.com] Sent: Sat 11/13/2004 7:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Cc: Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1742] RE: FW: critical literacy Sally-- This is a quick reply to your note, I am in the middle of a conference. I am delighted you think "caste" is appropriate," I wanted to try it out to see how it flew--I've been working on this concept for a while. Yesterday (this is sharing time) at the "question" part of one of our sessions, I raised a series of unsettling facts for panelists to comment on--female infanticide in China, amniocentisis and abortion of female babies (sp?) in India, "Too Scared to Learn" in Canada, financial ceiling on female work in US. No answers, absolute blankness from panelists, whose topic was gender differences in the brain and how this is reflected (or not) in schooling. A couple of people afterwards asked if I had gotten an answer to my questions--I said no, I didn't expect to, but I had to get the question on the record. (These sessions are taped.) This is a truncated version of what happened, but it is definitely relevant here. Good to hear from you. Andrea
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