Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from
Experience
Mev Miller, Ed.D. and Kathleen P. King, Ed.D. (eds.)
Series: Adult Education Special Topics:
Theory, Research & Practice in Lifelong Learning
Information Age Publishing, March 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Download: Contents & "Revealing the Structure of the Book"
Dedication and Acknowledgements
Introduction, Mev Miller & Kathleen P. King
Chapter 1
Enriching Lives
Geraldine Cannon Becker
Chapter 2
Finding Common Ground: Fostering Positive Relationships
among Women in the Literacy Classroom
Karen L. Milheim
Chapter 3
The Literacy of Being
Denise DiMarzio
Chapter 4
An Ongoing Journey
Beatrice Arrindell
Chapter 5
Becoming a Lady of Letters
Cindy Childress
Chapter 6
The Right to Write: Teaching Creative Writing to Women
Inmates
Dominique T. Chlup
Chapter 7
But How Can I Teach Her if She Can't Get Her Bum on the
Seat?
Jenny Horsman
Chapter 8
Frustrated
Laura Holland
Chapter 9
No Obstacle for Learning: A Learner's Story of Overcoming
Ana Bertha Diaz
Chapter 10
Dear Mary
Lorna Rivera
Chapter 11
A Cradle in the Classroom: Creating a Positive Learning Environment
for Student Mothers
Tanya M. Spilovoy
Chapter 12
Telling Our Truths
Tzivia Gover
Chapter 13
Laugh Listen, Leave the Door Open: Working with Teen Women
in Adult Programs
Stacie Evans
Chapter 14
It Has Been A Pleasure
Sharon L. Shoemaker
Section 2: Learning Communities
Chapter 15
Fabella and Fiona Find Liberating Literacy: A Teacher's
Visual Reflection on Women and Literacy
Sally S. Gabb
Chapter 16
Reading Against the Odds: African American Women, Literacy
and Transformation
Jaye Jones
Chapter 17
Courage, Choice, Change
Cheryl Reid
Chapter 18
Portraits and Possibilities: Empowerment Through Literacy
Elite Ben-Yosef
Chapter 19
Cultivating Intimacy in the Classroom at the King County
Jail
Kit Gruver
Women Creating Change: The Center for Immigrant Families'
English Literacy Project
Ujju Aggarwal, Priscilla Gonz‡lez, Donna Nevel & Perla Placencia
Chapter 21
Two Voices
Maura Donnelly
Chapter 22
Women and Continued Education in
Belize
Jane Elizabeth Bennett
Breaking the Spell of Dyslexia: A Retrospective Dialogue
between Student and Teacher
Gail Wood Miller, Susan Makinen
Chapter 24
The "Power" of Mutual Mentoring & Coaching:
Walking Alongside One Another Learning Journey
Kathleen P. King
Chapter 25
Fancy Footwork: Australian Women Write from Experience and
Reflection
Delia Bradshaw & Lynne Matheson
Chapter 26
The Push and Pull of Peers on Women Learners,
Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Edie Lantz-Leppert, Laura Porfirio, & Patricia L.
Anders
Chapter 27
WE LEARN: Working on Fertile Edges
Mev Miller
Section 3: Explorations of Practice
Chapter 28
Landscape of Academe
Lorna Rivera
Chapter 29
School Phobias: Personal Stories of Fear and Adult Education
Practices That Help
Lisa Robertson
Chapter 30
The Experience of Grieving, Trauma and Violence: The
Forgotten Adult Learner
…zlem Zabitgil
Chapter 31
A Difference of Degree: A Case Study of Iresa
Stubblefield-Jones
Carrie J. Boden
Chapter 32
Making A Beach: Women, Community, and Democracy at The Open
Book
Dianne Ramdeholl, Stacie Evans & John Gordon
Chapter 33
Parallels in the Marginalization of ABE Women Educators and
Women in Literacy
Sandra D. Bridwell
Chapter 34
Empowering Women through Voice:
Low-Income Mothers Speak about Work, [Non]Education, Poverty, and Welfare
Reform
Mary V. Alfred
Chapter 35
Breaking Free: The Power of Experiential Learning as It
Impacts the Development of Self-efficacy in Incarcerated Female Adult Learners
Dawn L. Addy
Chapter 36
Out of the Stands and Onto the Field: Participants,
Engagement, and Empowerment of Women Literacy Learners Using Web 2.0 and New
Media
Kathleen P. King
Chapter 37
Transformation Is the Way: A Study about Forum Theatre &
Critical Literacy with Brazilian Immigrants in a ESOL Class in New England
Maria Tereza Schaedler
Chapter 38
Simplemente Mujer: A Literacy Project By, With, and For
Women
Gabriele I.E. Strohschen
Chapter 39
Voices from the Earth: Pottery and English Experience for
Hispanic Farm Worker Women, Orleans County, NY
Linda Redfield Shakoor & Deborah Wilson
Meet the Contributors
About the Editors: Dr. Mev Miller & Dr. Kathleen P. King
References