As you may remember, I am trying to finalize the description of our list. I am specifically struggling with the following segment in the old description: 

"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;"

Due to the rich discussion on the list I had suggested:

"the hidden rules of diverse cultures and the misunderstandings these can cause in the teaching/learning process"

After asking for reactions, someone emailed me off list and had the following response:

It seems to me that we might need to word this part of the description so
that it includes within and among groups (groups instead of cultures because
there are many groups within each culture). So, what about something like

"the hidden forces and consequences within and among diverse groups and the
misunderstandings they can cause in the teaching/learning process"?

What do people think about the above suggestion. If we take this person's suggestion, the blurb would look like this:

New Description:
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 the poor; the hidden rules of diverse cultures and the misunderstandings these can cause in the teaching/learning process; sexual and
gender orientation issues and how they impact learners and teachers; religious
differences and adult literacy classrooms; body image and the impact it has on
adult learners; 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; physically and
mentally challenged adult literacy learners; the level of  women's literacy
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; and identification of supportive communication networks.

Please let me know on list or off list (dgreenberg at gsu.edu) what you think.

Thanks,
Daphne