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 gAD2gfX22523; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:42:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:42:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sdd17509.068@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:2386] Re: % of lgbt in adult literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1641 Lines: 47 Deborah and Sylvan raise an interesting question: Is it important to know the percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people in adult literacy classrooms? Any thoughts??????? Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu >>> sylvan@cccchs.org 11/12/02 18:57 PM >>> At 02:25 PM 11/11/2002 -0500, Deborah Schwartz wrote: >as I mentioned previously, it's almost impossible to determine >how many people in any given population identify as gay. There's such >repercussions to identifying >as gay in most contexts that the danger factor has to be correlated >somehow when we collect >numbers. > >This leaves me with a question and two thoughts: >I wonder has any one ever been involved with a study that in some way >measures how many >lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people are served in a given >program or class room? This would be difficult to determine on many fronts. First, you have to have some sort of working definition of what it means to be gay. In addition, the person has to self-identify as gay. The question of safety/confidentiality has to be addressed. And then, as you go on to mention, comes the question of why we need to know this. To justify including lgbt material in the classroom? To better serve our students by including material relevant to their lives? -------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org Clackamas County Children's Commission Oregon City, OR USA
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