Hi Everyone,

I am passing on this announcement about a new Discussion List from the
National Institute for Literacy: Poverty, Race, Women and Literacy. This
may be of interest to some of you, as it will discuss many factors that
have an impact on health, health care access, and health disparitites.

If you are interested in subscribing, please to do so by going to:
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/PovertyRaceWomen


All the best,
Julie

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Here is the announcement from the list's moderator, Daphne Greenberg:

The purpose of this list is to provide an on-going professional
development forum for providers, advocates, researchers, learners,
policy makers, and all other persons who are interested in exploring the
linkages between poverty, race, women and literacy. Examples of topics
include: the relationships among poverty, race, women and literacy in
the United States and in other countries; health as it pertains to women
and poverty issues; the hidden rules of persons living with the effects
of poverty, the intersection of these effects with gender and race, and
the misunderstandings these can cause in the teaching/learning process;
the role of women's literacy in family literacy programs, and the
assumptions about race and poverty often made in these programs;
domestic violence and its intersection with poverty, race, and literacy;
women's literacy levels and its ties to economics and welfare of
families; access to literacy in different cultures based on gender,
racial, and economic status; connection between women's literacy, race,
poverty and public policy; identification of supportive communication
networks; and discussion of action steps addressing women, race, poverty
and literacy.

If the above description interests you, please go to the following
address to subscribe:
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/PovertyRaceWomen . The list opens
on November 6th.


Thanks,
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 at gsu.edu


Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org