readings from literacies #6

A Wholistic Approach to Re-Storying Aboriginal Adult Literacy
by E. Antone and T. Cordoba
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Do My Literacies Count as Literacy?
An inquiry into Inuinnaqtunl literacies in the Canadian North
by Helen Balanoff and Cynthia Chambers
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Building Capacity for Literacy Friendly Communities
by Kathy Day, Audrey Gardner, Janet Pringle,
Janet Quinn and Rebecca Still
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How Writers Create Illiteracy
by Sally McBeth
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Gender, Culture and ‘Organized Chaos’:
What the Weaving Literacy project learned about integrating literacy
by Suzanne Smythe, Leona Gadsby and Janice MacAulay,
with John Malcolmson
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No Justice without Clear Language
by Janet Pringle
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Part of Everything We Do: Integrating Literacy into the Canadian Labour Movement
by Tamara Levine
+ What’s Involved in Bringing About Change?
by Jean Connon Unda
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other readings

Issues and Challenges in Communicating with Less Literate Canadians,
Final Report from Canada Information Office (CIO) (2000). Ottawa.
Download PDF here
dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/Collection/PF4-3-2000E.pdf
available August 2005

Literacy Audit Kit
by Susan Devins and Anne Scott (1997).  Calgary: Literacy Alberta.
www.literacy-alberta.ca/

The Community Development Handbook: A Tool to Build Community Capacity
by Flo Frank and  Anne Smith (1999). Ottawa: HRDC Canada, pp. 1-24.
Download PDF here
www.sdc.gc.ca/en/epb/sid/cia/comm_deve/cdhbooke.pdf

Sustainable Literacies and the Ecology of Lifelong Learning.
Working Papers of the Global Colloquium on Supporting Lifelong Learning.
by Hamilton, Mary  (2000)
Download Word doc here
www.open.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/papers/393CCAC1-000B-67AA-
0000015700000157_MaryHamilton-paper-noabstract.doc
available August 2005

What is Appreciative Inquiry?
by Sue Hammond and Joe Hall (1998). New York: Thinbook Publishing.
Download PDF here lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/thinbook/whatisai.pdf
(If you have trouble with this link, copy the URL into a search engine and link to it that way.)

Community Service Providers as Literacy Facilitators: A Pilot Project.
by Ruth Hayden  and Maureen Sanders (1998)
in The Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 44, 135-148.
www.nald.ca/fulltext/pat/135_148/page135.htm

Plain Language: Clear and Simple Plain language explained
Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada (1994).
Ottawa: Canada Communications Group.
www.web.net/~plain/PlainTrain/IntroducingPlainLanguage.html
available August 2005

Weaving Literacy into Family and Community Life
by Suzanne Smythe and Lee Weinstein (2000). Ottawa:
Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs.
www.frp.ca/g_Article.asp?ArticleID=61
This is an article about the project, not a report.

Informal Learning Practices of Adults With Limited Literacy Skills: A Research Summary
by Taylor, Maurice (2004).  Partnerships in Learning. Ottawa.
www.nald.ca/fulltext/mtaylor/summary/cover.htm