Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e6I40uT21928; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:00:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <a0432040cb59915f1db2d@[130.65.25.155]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Amelia Han <ahan@email.sjsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:4673] Re: Citizenship X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1782 Lines: 42 Loren I am using Elsa Auerbach's materials on ESL/Adult Literacy training in the community. They are excellent materials! Thanks for sharing the other resource references! Amelia Han At 7:42 -0400 7/12/0, Loren McGrail wrote: >Amelia and others, > >There is a long and rich history of language teachers trying to >implement teaching approaches or develop curriculum that supports >adult learners to take action in their communities. As beginning >places, you might want to look back at Delta system's Making Meaning >Making Change or Talking Shop or at Andy Nash's edited Civic >Participation Sourcebook out of World Education. Literacy South >published a learner generated magazine in 1998 in Spanish and English >that profiles Latino community leaders talking about their community >organizing efforts in their country of origin and here. Peppercorn >Press distributes the magazine not by myself and other wonderful >publications on the connection between language learning and social >action including the breast cancer oral history mural project that was >developed in Berkely, California. > >Lastly, I believe we need to do a lot more than just provide people >with knowledge or access to city resources. Issues of crime are >intimately related to housing which are related to discrimination and >exploitation. I hope to be working on a photo documentary project this >fall with Latino residents to assist them in identifying and analyzing >the root causes of some of the issues that plague their community >through a bilingual language learning project.I suspect we will be >informing the various city agencies about the issues rather than the >other way around. > >Hope this little summary gives you and others some ideas. > >-- >Loren McGrail >lmcgrail@mindspring.com
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