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1. As An Educator, What Can I Do? (1992)
Women's Education des Femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
This article offers strategies to educators who are working with students from violent homes and abused women.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
2. Beach Story (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter - vol. 8 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Debra Randler
In this short article, the author tells of an incident where she was violently attacked and how she fought back and subdued her attacker.
The article was written in English with a brief summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-19
3. Between Silence and Silence (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 • vol.9 no.4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharon Ferguson-Hood
This article is written by the mother of three children, single after leaving a twenty year marriage. In this article, she shares memories of abuse and neglect, from childhood to adult, and the event that helped her to finally break free from the cycle of abuse.
The author eventually entered university as a mature student, graduated with a B.A. in English and, at the time the article was published, was working on a Master of Divinity with the hopes of being ordained as a minister in the United Church.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
4. Beyond the "Culturally Sensitive": Violence Prevention by Education Wife Assault (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nupur Georgia
This article is about “Education Wife Assault”, a Canadian organization founded in 1978 with a mission to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children.
The article is written in English with a summary provided in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
5. Breaking All The Rules: Breaking Silence (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - vol. 9 no. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Colleen N. Race
The author shares a disturbing story of her abusive life, from child to adult.
The article was written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-19
6. BRIDGES: An Employability Program For Abused Women (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joan Krisch, Arlene Wells
This article is about the “BRIDGES Employment Training Project” in Victoria, BC. All the participants are women survivors of child-hood and/or adult abuse who identify the abuse as a major barrier to employment. BRIDGES addresses gaps in education that are part of the legacy of abuse. Overcoming this barrier and making changes is accomplished through learning, both academic and social.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
7. But I'm Not a Therapist: Furthering Discussion About Literacy Work with Survivors of Trauma (1997)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jenny Horsman
This report is a brief introduction to the findings of a research project which examines the impacts of abuse on women's literacy learning and explores approaches to literacy programming in the light of these impacts.
Added: 2003-10-02
8. Concordia Women's Centre: A Place of Resistance (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93, Vol. 10, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Margot Lacroix
The topic of this article is violence against women on university campuses, as well as the value of the Concordia Women's Centre to women on the Concordia University campus.
Added: 2004-03-26
9. Coping (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Sexual abuse affects every aspect of our being-- physical, social, spiritual, emotional, academic, and personal. This is the story of one woman who has been abused by three individuals from her extended family. It is a story of suffering, pain, and fear. The abuse began at the age of seven and continued into adolescence and the teen years.
Added: 2004-03-26
10. Designing Our Future - Women's Learning, Education & Training in Canada, 2000 & Beyond (2000)
Congress Report, March 2 - 5, 2000
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
This is a report of a conference on women's learning, education and training in Canada which took place March 2-5, 2000 and was hosted by the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW), in collaboration with the National Women's Reference Group on Labour Market Issues (NWRG). The conference brought together a diversity of women from across Ontario and the rest of Canada to discuss the status of women's learning, education and training in this country and to strategize for the future.
The aim of the conference was to examine the current status of women's learning, education and training in Canada, and the continued role of a national organization addressing these issues. Six overarching theme areas were identified: Learning, Work and Gender Equity; Technology and Women's Learning; Women's Literacy Education; Learning and Trauma; Older Women and Learning; Supporting Women's Learning
Added: 2003-10-07
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