[NIFL-ESL:8471] Conference on Popular Education/ESL/Workers Rights- April 25-26

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of one of the members of our networks.  Please pass it on.
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Dear ESL and Labor friends,
Happy New Year!
Below is a SAVE THE DATE!! announcement for a conference on Workers' Rights
& Popular Education within ESL, Literacy, & community organizing programs
that I am helping to organize. Please let me know if you are interested in
helping to organize the conference or have ideas for presenters. Please
also forward this to your co-workers, friends, or any one who would be
interested. I hope you'll be able to make this exciting conference!
Best,
Alison Ascher Webber
cell) 510-816-1585
office) 510-261-6600 x19
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Popular Education and the Immigrant Workforce: Organizing for Language,
Literacy and Worker Rights

The UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the Center for
Popular Education and Participatory Research will host a conference and
workshop on April 25th and 26th, 2003 designed to bring together labor and
ESL educators, community groups and union members and staff who are
interested in applying popular education and participatory research to
their
work with immigrants.

The April 25th conference will consist of a morning plenary and two sets of
roundtable discussions, which will be open to participants. The roundtable
discussions will include the following issues:

How can participatory research or education within a union or community
group be an organizing tool?
How can you make an education program participatory?
How can an organization or union set up and fun an education or research
program among its members?
How can popular education and participatory research methods be applied to
ESL and literacy classes?
How can workers' rights be taught within ESL & literacy programs?

The Friday conference will be followed by workshop on April 26th.  The
workshop will be tailored for English as a Second Language instructors
interested in writing immigrant workers' rights curriculum based on student
experience. It will be led by Gail Weinstein, author of the widely used and
recognized Collaborations ESL instruction series, and editor of the Center
for Labor Research and Education's new ESL and Workers' Rights curriculum.

For more information, e-mail Laura Nicodemus of the Center for Labor
Research and Education at: nicmail@pacbell.net



Larry Olds
3322 15th Ave S
Minneapolis  MN  55407  USA
612/722-3442



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