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151. Literacy for Whom? Women with Disabilities Marginalized (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1991 - Vol. 8, No. 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Diane Driedger, April D'Aubin
Almost half of the people with disabilities in Canada are illiterate, and even greater numbers are illiterate in the developing regions of the world. Disabled women are less likely to be literate than disabled men. Disabled people, particularly disabled women, need specific consideration within the learner population. Literacy is both a gender issue and a disability issue.
Added: 2004-09-09
152. Living and Learning: The Choice to be Playful (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1991 - Vol. 8, No. 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Lanie Melamed
In this article, the author examines how play fits into the story of women's lives. Where do they find it, how does it work for them, and what difference does it make in the way they learn?
Added: 2004-09-09
153. Looking for Solidarity in the Margins (1993)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1993 - Vol. 10, No. 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Tanis Doe
This article explores some of the difficulties that women and people with disabilities have faced independently and together in their struggle to ensure questions of access and equity are part of the national training agenda.
Added: 2004-09-02
154. Looking Forward Through the Past: Recalling Nellie McClung (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, 1979-1989 - Vol. 7, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Randi R. Warne
1989 marked the tenth anniversary of CCLOW. It was also the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous cases in Canadian legal history, the famous Person's Case, in which women were declared legally "persons" in the matter of rights and privileges, as well as in the matter of pains and penalties.
This article is about one of the five women who brought the Person's Case through the Canadian Supreme Court right up to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain, Nellie McClung (1873-1951), celebrated novelist, essayist, suffragist, and political activist.
Added: 2004-07-30
155. Mairi St. John Macdonald and Joan Brown Hicks: A Conversation (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, 1979-1989 - Vol. 7, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Christina Starr
Mairi St. John Macdonald was the first national president of CCLOW, from 1979-1982. Joan Brown Hicks was CCLOW's president from 1985-1986.
This article features conversations among the author and these former presidents of CCLOW.
Added: 2004-07-30
156. Making Connections (1997)
Literacy and EAL Curriculum from a Feminist Perspective
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Kate Nonesuch
This book arose out of the ongoing work of the Literacy Committee of the CCLOW Board. It is a book of curriculum for women in literacy and English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) programs.
The book contains chapters on various themes, such as herstory, role models, self esteem, cross-cultural awareness, roles, everyday life, safer sex and work, as well as chapters organized around the genres of poetry and song and one organized around women's ways of learning.
Added: 2003-10-17
157. Making Meaning Out of the Experiences of Our Lives (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Charlotte Caron
The The Barb Wire Collective is a group of Canadian women who believe that women with disabilities and chronic illnesses are important to the well-being of the world. All the members of the Collective are women who live with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
This article is about The Barb Wire Collective and a writing project undertaken by members of the group.
Added: 2004-09-02
158. Man's World/Woman's World: Women's Roles in Schools (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, September 1989 - Vol. 7, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Cecilia Reynolds
In this article, the author discusses an interview study she conducted, where she systematically compared the self-reported life histories of twenty-four women and men who worked as teachers and then principals in elementary and/or secondary schools in Toronto, Ontario, between 1930 and 1980. Her findings provided insight into the social construction of a division of labour in schools based on gender.
Added: 2004-09-02
159. Marketing Non-traditional Jobs to Girls and Women (1986)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1986 • vol.5 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Avebury Research & Consulting Limited
This is a summary of the findings and recommendations of the study Marketing Non-traditional Jobs to Girls and Women (1985), commissioned by the Women's Employment Directorate of Employment and Immigration Canada.
Added: 2004-02-06
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160. Math is a (Wo) man's Subject (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: M. Elaine Harvey
In this article, the author, a secondary school mathematics teacher for many years, discusses how she modified both her teaching and curriculum in response to a growing feminist awareness.
Added: 2004-09-02
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