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 j83GK8G23061; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:20:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:20:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s3199431.018@mailsrv4.gsu.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: "Daphne Greenberg" <alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3293] Hurricane Katrina 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 6.5.4 Status: O Content-Length: 2310 Lines: 26 Some of you who live in the areas impacted by Katrina may never have an opportunity to read this message. To those of you who can, and to those of you who have loved ones impacted by Katrina, as facilitator of this listserv I want to express my deepest warmth as you continue to go through this horror. For the rest of us, I hope that we will use this horrific tragedy to learn, grow, and change our ways of thinking and being. In terms of adult literacy, this is what I hope: 1. For our learners and teachers who have some/ quite a bit of financial resources, I hope that this will serve as an impetus for all of us to explore and learn about how we are treating the environment. Discussing, reading, and writing about issues such as the importance of wetlands, the seriousness of global warming, the need to be less dependent on gasoline, etc, etc, can serve as great avenues to increase our skills in reading comprehension, critical thinking, graph reading, social studies, and science. I believe that teachers and learners, administrators, and researchers can engage in quite a bit of Mezirow's tansformational learning processes after a disaster such as this one. 2. For those of us who do not have financial resources, I wonder who amongst us (and it will need to be many more people than just one person) can use this opportunity to utilize Freirean processes to bring to light and explore the levels of oppression that the poor and indigent experience. For example, I find myself thinking that the media coverage (and lack of coverage) of the plight of individuals in the superdome and convention center in New Orleans, along with the outrage that many Americans are expressing presents us with a unique opportunity to a call for action. I find myself wondering how Freire would use the hurricane tragedy in the adult literacy classroom to mobilize learners and their teachers to action. Any thoughts? Daphne Daphne Greenberg Assistant Professor Educational Psych. & Special Ed. Georgia State University P.O. Box 3979 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University P.O. Box 3977 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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