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1. Adult Education Part II (1997)
Authors: Kay S. Peavey
Collection: Research Materials
Supplement to Adult Education Resource Guide and Learning Standards (q.v.). A collection of peer-reviewed and peer-selected instructional strategies incorporating the best practices of New York's adult educators. Lessons cover drama, map reading, sequencing and memory, a mock World Peace Summit, reading, HIV education, and politics.
Added: 1997-01-01
2. Bob and Paul (2003)
Series: Pushed Through and Second Chances: Stories About the Right to Read - Screen Play Adaptations
Authors: Glen Rockwood, Ed Kavanagh
Collection: Learning Materials
This is one of four stories adapted from a screenplay, the others are entitled:
- Roger's Story
- Margaret's Story
- Pushthrough
Added: 2006-05-30
3. Challenging Literacy Prejudices Through Theatre [Video - 3:23] (2008)
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Series: Adult Learning Video Series
Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)
Collection: Learning Materials
This video, part of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), focuses on a Montreal literacy group that uses theatre both to help people with low literacy skills express themselves and to raise awareness of the barriers and prejudices they face.
The video features the program facilitator and one of the participants, a middle-aged man who suffers from schizophrenia and cannot read and write, but who has a great talent for improvisation. In a subway station, they perform a skit that shows how someone with low literacy skills does not receive the same level of service as other customers.
The video, about three minutes in length, is in French with English subtitles.
Added: 2011-05-20
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4. Grassroots: Community Writing and the Arts 2003: Reading and Writing the Word and the World (2003)
Series: Community Writing and the Arts
Authors: Centre for Literacy of Quebec
Collection: Learning Materials
In 2003, in collaboration with Blue Metropolis, The Montreal International Literary Festival, The Centre for Literacy presented the fifth annual Grassroots: Community Writing and Arts event. This festival, "Reading And Writing the Word and the World", brought together writers and performers from street theatre in Vancouver and Toronto, from adult new writers' programs, from neighbourhood writing and film-production alliances, from youth antiviolence programs, and from community radio to share their perspectives on writing, listening and performing as ways of creating and reshaping their worlds. They shared their stories, poems, and performances, during a public reading and met in workshop format to explore how reading the word relates to reading the world, and to share experiences of using puppetry, mime, masks, poetry, music, photography and other modes of expression as literate practices.
Added: 2005-04-21
5. How To Kit - Readers Theatre (2004)
Series: How To Kit
Authors: NWT Literacy Council
Collection: Learning Materials
This document offers an introduction to readers’ theatre, a form of drama that features participants reading from their scripts. A readers’ theatre production is usually easy to put on because it doesn’t require props or costumes and participants aren’t required to memorize their lines.
This kit includes a description of readers’ theatre and its benefits; tips for creating scripts and putting readers’ theatre into practice; information on different styles of readers’ theatre; ready-made scripts; and a list of resources.
Added: 2004-11-26
6. Interview: Lillian Nakamura Maguire (1987)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1987 - Vol. 5, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Janet Patterson
Collection: Research Materials
This interview was conducted by Janet Patterson, the BC Director for CCLOW in 1987. At the time of the interview, Lillian Nakamura Maguire was the Yukon Director for CCLOW, as well as the coordinator of personal skills development programs at Yukon College in Whitehorse. She was a distance education, self-directed learner in the Master of Adult Education program at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.
Added: 2004-08-05
7. Literacy Theatre (1997)
Authors: Dorothy Oliver
Collection: Learning Materials
A manual constructed to involve the interaction of two to five people, a facilitator and the audience, to present the process of literacy theater`s demands of cooperation and teamwork.
The manual is divided into chapters to allow people to read the sections that interest them and to ignore the ones that don't. Because some people will choose to skip around, items that are essential to the process are repeated from chapter to chapter.
Background: For years, theatre has been used as a tool for consciousness raising, problem solving and social change. One of the first groups to develop and use the full literacy theatre process was the Family Life Division of New York Medical College in 1973, where teenagers from local high schools gathered together to present scenes from their real world. The teens were all professional actors who would explore issues presented by the audience - drugs, alcohol, health and developmental issues - and then stay in character while they dialogued with the audience. Marti Stevens, a director of Somerset County Basic Skills Program in Skowhegan, Maine, first used theatre with teens by adopting the Family Life Division model. Its effectiveness persuaded her to try it with adult educators at a northern New England Conference in New Hampshire in 1984. After that memorable experience, members of the Northern New England Social Action Group began to collaborate to learn to utilize the process to address their concerns with other adult educators and their communities. The 1985 Commission on Adult Basic Education Conference in Montreal, was the first conference at which these seasoned adult educators from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont presented, and it was at this presentation that it became clear that literacy theatre was a dynamic and effective staff training model.
Literacy theatre has shown itself to be a dynamic training technique for adult education teachers, administrators and volunteers. It explores the androgogical content of adult education - understanding adult learners and cultural differences, and being aware of a variety of teaching methods, including providing for a positive learning environment, offering opportunities for success, providing awareness of student progress and maintaining appropriate student- teacher interactions.
For copies of the document and information on theatre workshops, contact:
Art Ellison, Administrator
Bureau of Adult Education
NH Department of Education
101 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
Tel.: (603) 271-6698
Added: 1997-01-01
8. Margaret's Story (2003)
Series: Pushed Through and Second Chances: Stories About the Right to Read - Screen Play Adaptations
Authors: Glen Rockwood, Ed Kavanagh
Collection: Learning Materials
This is one of four stories adapted from a screenplay, the others are entitled:
- Roger's Story
- Pushthrough
- Bob and Paul
Added: 2006-05-30
9. Pushed Through and Second Chances: Stories About the Right to Read (2003)
Authors: Libby Creeman, Agnes Walsh, Ed Kavanagh
Collection: Learning Materials
This book is based on interviews with adult learners and contains the interviews/essays and a finished play.
The idea for the project was to explore, through interviews, some of the less obvious reasons why people end up with poor literacy skills and to prepare a theatrical presentation based on these real–life stories.
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Added: 2005-07-04
10. Pushthrough (2003)
Series: Pushed Through and Second Chances: Stories About the Right to Read - Screen Play Adaptations
Authors: Glen Rockwood, Ed Kavanagh
Collection: Learning Materials
This is one of four stories adapted from a screenplay, the others are entitled:
- Roger's Story
- Margaret's Story
- Bob and Paul
Added: 2006-05-30
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