Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f17ElB906801; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:47:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:47:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sa81141b.036@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1221] Functional Literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1773 Lines: 37 Andrea mentions practical skills such as how to apply for a mortgage, a driver's license. I was wondering if anyone on this listserv has in the past or currently includes functional skills such as these in the classroom. If yes, I would love to hear your experiences. If not, why not-is this something that you or your learners or administrator was/is against? Daphne >>> AWilder106@aol.com 02/06 1:03 PM >>> Training women to "just fit in" is a one way street. It implies shutting up and being nice. I have no idea how to teach for this, and I would be very interested to hear from teachers, students, who teach women how to do what they gotta do. I do know that practical skills have a lot to do with this--how to apply for a mortgage, a driver's license. This is what I call "constructing competence." I was stunned a couple of weeks ago when I heard a commentator on NPR talk about the "ruling class" in DC, and how people are groomed for it, and how there are different expectations of this group--they are already "there." The context was the nomination of Linda Chavez for secretary of labor. Apparently women in this "ruling class" routinely hire undocumented aliens to do house work and don't pay the tax. I find this thinking repulsive, and I was interested that the commentator didn't have the nerve to say that this was wrong. He just knuckled under! Groveled! I get really really angry at the knuckling under mentality, men or women. It doesn't help us, it's the female version of emasculating, which I guess is called spaying. Andrea Daphne Greenberg Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 Fax: 404-651-1415 Ph: 404-651-0400 E-mail: alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu
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