Research
& Foundations
If
you have research you would like added, please contact
WE LEARN, attention Mev Miller.
Research
related to Women & Literacy
Women
& Literacy: Moving to Power & Participation
Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ) 34: 1&2 / June, 2004
Edited by Mev Miller, Founder of WE LEARN,
With essays by WE LEARN members: Lorna Rivera, Heidi Silver-Pacuilla,
Jenny Horsman, Chizu Sato, Najwa Adra, Ujwala Samant.
Practitioners from adult education and women’s
studies raise significant questions about literacy and women,
identity, and power.(Click
here for complete table of contents.)
Women's Literacy: NOT a
Given
written by Mev Miller, founder of WE LEARN
article published in Off Our Backs, November / December
2003
This is a brief article written by Daphne Greenberg summarizing
some of the issues important to a discussion of women and literacy.
It was posted in August of 2002 to the nifl-womenlit discussion
list and can be found in its archives (http://www.nifl.gov/nifl-womenlit/2002/0407.html).
This dissertation written by Mev Miller to satisfy requirements
for an Ed.D. in Critical Pedagogy at the Univ. of St. Thomas in
Minneapolis, MN. It is from this research that WE LEARN was initiated.
General
Research of Related Interest
Doing
Freedom: An Ethnography of An Adult Literacy Centre (2004)
- pdf version
by Bonnie Saroke (http://www.soroke.com/
Master's
Thesis: My research is a study of the experiences and perceptions
of the people of the Reading and Writing Centre in Duncan, BC. Based
on a sociocultural perspective of literacy and using a framework
of power, this ethnography explores what a dialogic, learning-centred
literacy program looks like from the perspective of the people involved
and asks : how are power and authority operating in this place?
The purpose is to document the relationship dynamics of good adult
basic education in a place where teachers and students say they
are “doing freedom”. The study shows how doing freedom
within this educational environment means creating and maintaining
a community relationship and a facilitative power system through
the force of the teachers’ philosophy and vision of a learner-run
centre.
The
Effect of Specific Welfare Policies on Poverty
A paper from the Urban Institutes contributes to the literature on
how specific welfare reform policies affect poverty and deep poverty
by examining the effects of a rich and comprehensive set of specific
welfare policies on poverty and deep poverty among women and
children. The study captures objective and detailed measures
of states' policies by measuring policies individually, and in continuous
values such as dollars, wherever possible. http://www.urban.org/publications/411334.html
|
