Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h0U02mP19257; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:02:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:02:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200301292357.h0TNvUP18980@literacy.nifl.gov> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Ana Duckworth <anaworth@usp.br> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1025] Re: January is Poverty Awareness Month X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: InMail by Insite - www.insite.com.br Status: O Content-Length: 7692 Lines: 193 Hello all list members, I have just joined the list and would like to present myself. I am a librarian in Sao Paulo (Brazil) working with Special Projects for Public Libraries and we would like to develop a literacy program for all 68 libraries (many one them in very poor areas of the city) mainly for young adults and adults. I have been looking for some ideas, but I would also like to have suggestions in order to avoid taking a wrong path. Please, if there are good resources or websites with literacy projects evaluations let me know. I think that Mary Ann topic about functional literacy is a very important one. If Paulo Freire´s ideas and critical literacy have been used in libraries services, I would like to contact them and have some feedback. thanks a lot, Ana Duckworth Em 27 Jan 2003, Nicole Meiring escreveu: >Mary Ann Corley wrote: With private funding, perhaps we can help adult >learners to understand some of the underlying reasons for their poverty and >to findtheir voices. > >I'm very interested in the creation of programs/ideas as vehicles to promote >adult learners' voice. Does anyone know of any resources that might be >helpful in that area? > >Thanks! > Nicole Meiring > Student Services Coordinator > Columbus Literacy Council > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> >To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:20 PM >Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1015] Re: January is Poverty Awareness Month > >> Hi, Peg: >> >> Thanks for the good words. You're right--we all can have a hand in >> spreading this message. There are so many misperceptions about poverty >that >> it's incumbent on all of us to help get accurate information to the >various >> publics (the media, policy makers, funders, the general public). If any >> subscribers to the list have tried to reach various publics by speaking to >> these issues, would you share your stories with this list? >> >> There are some hard questions here: Adult educators long have supported a >> functional definition of literacy, maintaining that literacy skills >> acquisition facilitates access to employment. But in an economy in which >> there are not enough jobs to go around that pay a living wage, and in a >> society in which race and socioeconomic status often can be barriers to >> quality education and employment, does this functional definition of >> literacy lose its value and appeal to potential learners? In these tough >> financial times, when adult education budgets face the threat of serious >> reductions, should we be rethinking ways in which we deliver services and >do >> more than "teach the word"? Isn't this a time for us to work toward >raising >> learners' critical consciousness, a la Freire and others? How can we make >> our programs more culturally relevant and also help learners to find their >> voices? (These types of programs typically do not receive public >funding.) >> At the risk of raising an outcry among my colleagues, I ask whether we >> should put our energies into approaching private foundations to build >> support for critical literacy programs rather than appealing to the >federal >> government, which imposes regulations on the type of literacy instruction >> that we provide. What I'm asking is whether we would have greater >successes >> teaching critical literacy (with private funding) rather than continuing >to >> offer literacy programs via public funding. Public funding dictates that >we >> offer literacy programs in a work-first environment, although we graduate >> learners to a world in which there are not enough jobs that can pull them >> out of poverty. With private funding, perhaps we can help adult learners >to >> understand some of the underlying reasons for their poverty and to find >> their voices. >> >> Will anyone jump in on this discussion? Let's hear from you! >> >> Thanks, >> -Mary Ann Corley >> Povracelit List Moderator >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Margarita Oliver" >> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:21 AM >> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1014] Re: January is Poverty Awareness Month >> >> >> > Mary Ann Corley, >> > Just re-visited this site. Can you get it to Nightline and/or >other >> > such TV programs? Can you get related literacy statistics to those >> > programs? Getting them to listservs is preaching to the choir. Or >could >> > we all forward a message to such noticeable places? THANK YOU for what >> you >> > are doing! >> > >> > Peg Oliver >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Mary Ann Corley <macorley1@earthlink.net> >> > To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> >> > Date: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:56 PM >> > Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1004] January is Poverty Awareness Month >> > >> > >> > >Hi, All: >> > > >> > >The following references are cross-posted from >A-Librarian-At-Every-Table >> > >list. >> > > >> > >-Mary Ann Corley >> > >Nifl-povracelit List Moderator >> > > >> > >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >> > > >> > > >> > >Nearly 33 million Americans have fallen into poverty - more >> > >people than a year ago, the highest number in years. What >> > >does it mean to the life of our nation to have so many >> > >people lost in a shadowy state of uncertainty and need? >> > >What does it mean to be poor in America - to be a resident of >> > >the forgotten state of poverty? Click on POVERTY TOUR on >> > >http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm >> > >Poverty USA site: >> > >http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/index.htm >> > > >> > > >> > >REGRESSIVE TAXES FOR POOR & MIDDLE-CLASS >> > >The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has just >> > >released "Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax >> > >Systems in All 50 States."By an overwhelming margin, most >> > >states tax their middle- and low-income families far more >> > >heavily than the wealthy, the study finds.Most states >> > >require their poor and middle-income taxpayers to pay the >> > >most taxes as a share of income -- and the ways in which >> > >states have managed their budgets during the last decade >> > >have made this problem worse." State-by-state reports and >> > >"Top Ten" lists. >> > >http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/whopays.htm >> > > >> > > >> > >POOR HAVE FALLEN OUT OF POLITICAL FAVOR >> > >Despite the outpouring of support and generosity for the poor >> > >during the holiday season, Americans don't really seem to >> > >care about low-income people. Despite reports that hunger >> > >and homelessness have increased dramatically over the last >> > >year (U.S. Conference of Mayors report), raising the issue of >> > >poverty in America has fallen out of political favor. "We >> > >have indeed slipped into class warfare in our country, but >> > >it is being fought top down, as the well off harvest new >> > >gains for themselves from the powerless poor. And no >> > >number of charitable gestures, as admirable as they are, can >> > >make up the difference." >> > >http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/4825227.htm >> > > >> > >> > >----------
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