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 iB83UgH05720; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:30:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:30:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <web-15883927@gse.harvard.edu> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jennifer Roloff" <roloffje@gse.harvard.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3086] Re: Trends and issues X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.2.5 Status: O Content-Length: 1743 Lines: 29 Hi Sondra and everyone, The talk sounds great. I am looking at the goals for learning and necessary supports and challenges for women to reach those goals in my study right now. The women in my study are advanced ESOL learners with degrees from their home countries, but they work minimum wage jobs in the U.S. because they need to earn money and there are barriers to what kinds of jobs they can get (language, need for certification for certain jobs, discrimination in some cases). These women are trying to carve out time for themselves so that they can learn more English, continue their education, and perhaps attain their goals of having a professional career (one woman in my study wants to be a nurse, another a dental assistant, another an interior decorator.). This just gives you an idea of the kinds of goals these immigrant women have, but need the support from education sites and their families in order to be able to continue taking classes. Hope this helps. I just read Sondra's study about the women in library literacy programs. One of the participants reminds me of these women in my study. Great work. Best wishes, Jenni On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:36:12 -0500 (EST) "S. Cuban" <cubans@seattleu.edu> wrote: > I am going to be giving a talk with Nelly Stromquist on women and > literacy issues in CA this January and I was wondering if members of the > women-literacy listserv could tell me what they believe to be are the major > social, economic, and political trends and issues affecting women's literacy > education today and in the future? I will attribute your responses in the > talk! THANKS so much! Sondra Cuban > Jennifer Roloff Welch NCSALL fellow Doctoral Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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