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Title Empowering women through literacy : views from experience / edited by Mev Miller and Kathleen P. King
Published Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Adult education special topics, theory, research, and practice in lifelong learning
Adult education special topics.
Contents DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ENRICHING LIVES; FINDING COMMON GROUND; THE LITERACY OF BEING; AN ONGOING JOURNEY; BECOMING A LADY OF LETTERS; THE RIGHT TO WRITE; BUT HOW CAN I TEACH HER IF SHE CAN'T GET HER BUM ON THE SEAT?; FRUSTRATED; NO OBSTACLE FOR LEARNING; DEAR MARY; A CRADLE IN THE CLASSROOM; TELLING OUR TRUTHS; LAUGH, LISTEN, AND LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN; IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE; A TEACHER'S VISUAL REFLECTION ON WOMEN AND LITERACY; READING AGAINST THE ODDS; COURAGE, CHOICE, CHANGE; PORTRAITS AND POSSIBILITIES
CULTIVATING INTIMACY IN THE CLASSROOM AT THE KING COUNTY JAILWOMEN CREATING CHANGE; TWO VOICES; WOMEN AND CONTINUED EDUCATION IN BELIZE; BREAKING THE SPELL OF DYSLEXIA; THE "POWER" OF MUTUAL MENTORING AND COACHING; FANCY FOOTWORK; THE PUSH AND PULL OF PEERS ON WOMEN LEARNERS; WE LEARN; THE LANDSCAPE OF ACADEME; SCHOOL PHOBIAS; THE EXPERIENCE OF GRIEVING, TRAUMA, AND VIOLENCE; A DIFFERENCE OF DEGREE; MAKING A BEACH; PARALLELS IN THE MARGINALIZATION OF ABE WOMEN EDUCATORS AND WOMEN LITERACY LEARNERS; EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH VOICE; BREAKING FREE; OUT OF THE STANDS AND ONTO THE FIELD
TRANSFORMATION IS THE WAYSIMPLEMENTE MUJER; VOICES FROM THE EARTH; MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Adult education of women -- Cross-cultural studies
Literacy programs -- Cross-cultural studies
Literacy -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
Adult education of women
Literacy programs
Literacy -- Social aspects
Education.
Social Sciences.
Education, Special Topics.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Mev.
King, Kathleen P., 1958-
LC no. 2009006205
ISBN 9781607528609
1607528606