Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1QGOVP17340; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:24:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:24:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <p05111a05ba829a55ba72@[146.186.96.31]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Barb Van Horn <blv1@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:673] new issue of Focus on Basics X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 38 A new issue of Focus on Basics is available online at http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu Scroll down and click on the "newest issue of Focus on Basics" box The topic? "Isms": classism, racism, gender bias, and bias in all the other categories that can differentiate people from the majority in society. *Follow the eight year transformation of a New Orleans program into an antiracist program; * Refresh your knowledge of multicultural educational theory; * Read about how an ESOL program in Oklahoma created a new venue for classes in which traditional Muslim women could feel comfortable; * See how two basic education educators who thought they were non biased recognized and moved past their own limitations; * Share the self recognition a teacher trainer felt when she realized her practice was not as empowering as she thought it was; * View the field from inside out as an African American teacher and professional developer reflects on her growing awareness of the need to address issues of bias in her practice. Printed copies of the publication are arriving in states this week. Let me know what you think of the issue via the FOB electronic discussion list. Barb Garner Editor Barbara Garner Senior Program Officer email bgarner@worlded.org World Education phone (617) 482-9485 44 Farnsworth Street fax (617) 482-0617 Boston, MA 02210 -- Barb Van Horn (M.Ed., Reading) Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy College of Education, Penn State University BLV1@PSU.EDU (e-mail) 814-865-5876 (phone) 814-863-6108 (fax)
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