Section C: What Additional Women-Centered Resources Do You Use?

1) What published materials addressing specific women's issues have you been using that are not listed above in Section B? Please be as specific and as comprehensive as possible, including author and publisher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) What women-centered or feminist materials DO NOT exist (on a topic or in a genre) that you wish you had available to use with your learners? (For example: information on specific health concerns, social relations, short stories, work situations, "issues", women's rights, memoirs, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

3) Have you found it important to use or have access to literacy materials that touch on or raise issues of specific importance to women? Please explain your answer if possible.

 

 

 

 

 

4) What types of concerns or issues generally surface for the women learners/students in your program? How do they usually tend to surface?

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) If more published literacy materials on specific concerns to women were available, would you use them? Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

6) If literacy workers wrote reviews about the effectiveness of specific women-centered literacy materials, would you find this useful? Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Would you find the comments or reviews written by women learners on reading materials useful? Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

8) Would you use printed materials developed by other literacy programs if you knew about them? What would this depend on?

 

 

 

9) Do you create your own printed materials? Why?

 

 

 

If yes,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • If your center develops its own materials, please send along sample copies or a list of titles for the purposes of adding it to the collection of resources being developed by this research. Please indicate whether this material is for in-house use only or if you are able or willing to make it available to others. If you would like to make them available for wider distribution, please be sure to include contact information and the price(s). Enclose a brochure or listing if you have one.

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    10) Would you use a resource/networking center dedicated to women-centered literacy materials? Please comment on what would work best (e.g., printed newsletter, website, mailing list) and what it should do or include.

     

     

     

    11) If there are any additional comments you'd like to make about literacy resources or reading materials or curriculum packets and how they reflect issues of specific importance to women, please make them here. Please use additional pages if necessary.

     

     

     

     

     

    12) What factors are important to you in choosing literacy materials for women or on women’s issues?
    How would you rate the following?

     

    Extremely important

    Important

    Not so Important

    Doesn’t matter

    Comments on this?

    Length (in general)
    ….and specifically

    1-2 pages
    3-4 pages
    more than 5 pages

     

     

     

     

     

    Content

     

     

     

     

     

    Quality of writing

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Reading level

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Comprehension questions

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Workbook format

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Overall size of book

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Price

     

     

     

     

     

    Accompanied by an audiotape

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Accompanied by a website

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Accompanied by a software program

     

     

     

     

     

    Accompanied by a teacher’s guide or resource book

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Other considerations?? Please be as specific as possible.

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