Literacy’s
Heroes and Heroines:
Reclaiming our forgotten past
by B. Allan Quigley
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Women in
the Cuban Literacy Campaign
by JC Elvy
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of photos)
Joanne C. Elvy’s “Notes
from a Cuban Diary: Forty Women on Forty
Years” is available at www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/cnf2005/2005onlineProceedings/CAS2005Pro-Elvy.pdf
A short film, “Women of the Cuban Literacy Campaign,” by Catherine
Murphy (2005) is available online at www.theliteracyproject.org/cuban_lit.htm.
This short work-in-progress includes images from films made during the 1961
campaign, and interviews with some campesinas.
Doing Literacy
by Linda Wentzel
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web page
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Reflections
on Becoming White…Or, Avoiding
the Button Factory
by Maria Moriarty
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Peggy McIntosh’s White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1988)
is available at seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
An abstract of Pierre Walter’s article, “Literacy, Imagined Nations,
and Imperialism: Frontier College and the Construction of British Canada, 1899-1933” is
available at: aeq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/54/1/42
Literacy
Work in Alberta Then and Now
by Deborah Morgan
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Deb Morgan’s Opening
Doors: Thoughts and Experiences of Community
Literacy Workers in Alberta (1992)
is available at www.nald.ca/library/research/opendoor/cover.htm
We
need to feel valued and respected for
the work that we do:
Workplace Educators speak out
by Margan Dawson
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Learn more about the Association
of Workplace Educators of Nova Scotia (AWENS)
at www.awens.ca/index.html
The Nova Scotia Department of Education,
Skills and Learning Branch
goals are listed in Skills Nova Scotia
Action Plan 2005-2006,
available at www.ednet.ns.ca/pdfdocs/skills_learning/actionplan_2005_2006.pdf
Some Realities
of Working in Adult Literacy:
Snapshots from Focused on Practice
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Focused
on Practice Journal
Extract:
Excavating in the Trenches (web
only)
by
Sally Crawford
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Focused
on
Practice,
edited
by
Jenny
Horsman and
Helen
Woodrow,
is available
at www2.literacy.bc.ca/focused_on_practice/focused_on_practice.pdf
Towards a
Profile of the Adult Literacy Sector
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web page
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PDF(92kb)
Questions
About Adult Literacy Pay and Equity
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web page
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PDF (96kb)
This excerpt
is from The Level of Pay, Benefits, and
Working Conditions of Literacy Employees
of the Anglophone Community in Ontario, 2001.
Available at www.on.literacy.ca/pubs/pay/cover.htm
What’s
New: If you could wave a magic wand
by Pat Campbell
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web page
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PDF (156kb)
Juliet
Merrifield’s Contested Ground: Performance
Accountability (1998)
is available at www.ncsall.net/?id=656
You can order a copy of Measures of Success at here.
Literacy in a Complex
World
by Tracy Westell
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web page
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PDF (84kb)
Tim
Blackman’s “Complexity Theory
and the New Public Management” (2001)
is available at www.whb.co.uk/socialissues/tb.htm.
David Byrne’s “Complexity Science
and Transformations in Social Policy” (2001)
is available at www.whb.co.uk/socialissues/db.htm.
Peter Calamai’s “A Wake-Up Call
for Canadian Literacy” (2005)
is available
at www.abc-canada.org/our_publications/law43.pdf
Critical Discourse
Analysis:
An example of the good mother in literacy-advice
texts
by Linda Phillips
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web page
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PDF (256kb)
Suzanne
Smythe’s thesis, The Good Mother:
Critical Discourse Analysis of Literacy Advice
to Mothers in the Twentieth Century,
is available at www.nald.ca/library/research/goodmthr/cover.htm
The graphics are covers of books available
from Early Canadiana Online at canadiana.org/eco.php
Relationships are Key:
How to attract and support effective volunteers
An Interview with Sheryl Harrow
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web page
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PDF (168kb)
READ
Saskatoon’s Building Capacity
to Attract and Retain Literacy Volunteers
is
available at www.nald.ca/readsask/pubs/attract/attract.pdf
Catherine Hambly’s “Behaviours
and Beliefs of Volunteer Literacy Tutors” (1998)
is available at
www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca/Publications/wkpaper3/contents.htm
An abstract of Jennifer Sandlin and Ralf
St. Clair’s, “Volunteers in Adult
Literacy Education” (2005) is available
at http://www.ncsall.net/?id=780
Information about volunteerism in Canada
The following sites provide a wealth
of information about the value of volunteers,
the economic contributions of volunteers,
motivations for volunteering and the benefits
of volunteering in Canada:
How to estimate the Economic Contribution
of Volunteer Work: www.nald.ca/fulltext/heritage/ComPartnE/estvole.htm
A statistical profile of volunteers and volunteering
in Canada: www.givingandvolunteering.ca/pdf/reports/Where_Canadians_Volunteer.pdf
A report on the motivations for and barriers
to volunteering: www.givingandvolunteering.ca/pdf/reports/Volunteer_Spirit.pdf
An examination of the benefits of volunteering: www.givingandvolunteering.ca/pdf/factsheets/Benefits_of_Volunteering.pdf
Volunteer Canada, a national organization
representing and providing research and
resource support to volunteer agencies: www.volunteer.ca/volunteercanada/index.cfm
