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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Mev Miller and Kathleen P. King
• Sect. I. Reflections
• 1. Enriching Lives / Geraldine Cannon Becker
• 2. Finding Common Ground: Fostering Positive Relationships Among Women in the Literacy Classroom / Karen L. Milheim
• 3. The Literacy of Being / Denise DiMarzio
• 4. An Ongoing Journey / Beatrice Arrindell
• 5. Becoming a Lady or Letters: For Cherie / Cindy Childress
• 6. The Right to Write: Teaching Creative Writing to Women Inmates / Dominique T. Chlup
• 7. But How Can I Teach Her if She Can't Get Her Bum on the Seat? / Jenny Horsman
• 8. Frustrated / Laura Holland
• 9. No Obstacle for Learning: A Learner's Story of Overcoming / Ana Bertha Diaz
• 10. Dear Mary / Lorna Rivera
• 11. A Cradle in the Classroom: Creating a Positive Learning Environment for Student Mothers / Tanya M. Spilovoy
• 12. Telling Our Truths / Tzivia Gover
• 13. Laugh Listen, Leave the Door Open: Working With Teen Women in Adult Programs / Stacie Evans
• 14. It Has Been A Pleasure / Sharon L. Shoemaker
• Sect. II. Learning Communities
• 15. Fabella and Fiona Find Liberating Literacy: A Teacher's Visual Reflection on Women and Literacy / Sally S. Gabb
• 16. Reading Against the Odds: African American Women, Literacy and Transformation / Jaye Jones
• 17. Courage, Choice, Change: Gestalt Therapy Techniques Within the Adult Literacy Classroom / Cheryl Reid

• 18. Portraits and Possibilities: Empowerment Through Literacy / Elite Ben-Yosef
• 19. Cultivating Intimacy in the Classroom at the King County Jail / Kit Gruver
• 20. Women Creating Change: The Center for Immigrant Families' English Literacy Project / Ujju Aggarwal, Priscilla Gonzalez, Donna Nevel and Perla Placencia
• 21. Two Voices / Maura Donnelly
• 22. Women and Continued Education in Belize / Jane Elizabeth Bennett
• 23. Breaking the Spell of Dyslexia: A Retrospective Dialogue Between Student and Teacher / Gail Wood Miller and Susan Makinen
• 24. The "Power" of Mutual Mentoring and Coaching: Walking Alongside One Another on the Learning Journey / Kathleen P. King
• 25. Fancy Footwork: Australian Women Write From Experience and Reflection / Delia Bradshaw and Lynne Matheson
• 26. The Push and Pull of Peers on Women Learners / Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Edie Lantz-Leppertz and Laura Porfirio
• 27. WE LEARN: Working on Fertile Edges / Mev Miller
• Sect. III. Explorations of Practice
• 28. Landscape of Academe / Lorna Rivera
• 29. School Phobias: Personal Stories of Fear and Adult Education Practices That Help / Lisa Robertson
• 30. The Experience of Grieving, Trauma and Violence: The Forgotten Adult Learner / Ozlem Zabitgll
• 31. A Difference of Degree: A Case Study of Iresa Stubblefield-Jones / Carrie J. Boden
• 32. Making A Beach: Women, Community, and Democracy at The Open Book / Dianne Ramdeholl, Stacie Evans and John Gordon
• 33. Parallels in the Marginalization of ABE Women Educators and Women Literacy Learners / Sandra D. Bridwell
• 34. Empowering Women Through Voice: Low-Income Mothers Speak About Work, [Non]Education, Poverty, and Welfare Reform / Mary V. Alfred
• 35. Breaking Free: The Power of Experiential Learning as it Impacts the Development of Self-Efficacy in Incarcerated Female Adult Learners / Dawn E. Addy
• 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
• 37. Transformation Is the Way: A Study About Forum Theater and Critical Literacy With Brazilian Immigrants in an ESOL Class in New England / Maria Tereza Schaedler
• 38. Simplemente Mujer: A Literacy Project By, With, and For Women / Gabriele I. E. Strohschen
• 39. Voices from the Earth: Pottery and English Experience for Hispanic Farm Worker Women, Orleans County, New York / Linda Redfield Shakoor and Deborah Wilson.

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Contributors:

Miller, Mev

King, Kathleen P., 1958-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Adult education special topics

Subjects:

Adult education of women — Cross-cultural studies

Literacy programs — Cross-cultural studies

Literacy — Social aspects — Cross-cultural studies

Adult education of women

Literacy programs

Literacy — Social aspects

Literacy

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

LC1660 .E47 2009

ISBNs:

9781607520832 (pbk.)
1607520834 (pbk.)
9781607520849 (hardcover)
1607520842 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009006205

OCLC Numbers:

310224868