Sorry-but I pasted the wrong blurb in my previous posting. Please let me know what you think about this segment the person is suggesting we use:

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

and therefore, the new description would be:
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 forces and consequences within and among
diverse groups and the misunderstandings they 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.

As a reminder for what this is all about:

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?

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

Thanks,
Daphne