Browse by keyword "Women's writings"
1. 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
2. Canadian Woman Studies / les cahiers de la femme (1988)
Fall/Winter, Volume 9, Numbers 3&4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Elizabeth Brady, Ed.
This is a feminist quarterly which was founded with the goal of making current writing and research on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women.
Added: 2003-10-09
3. I Promise I'll Love You Forever (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Patty Herriot
This is story of a woman's childhood of abuse and how it effected her into adulthood.
Added: 2004-08-03
4. Isolating the Barriers and Strategies for Prevention (1995)
A Kit about Violence and Women's Education for Adult Education and Adult Learners
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Anne Elliott, Patricia Williams
Most of us believe that the right to education, from kindergarten through high school, is fundamental. However, not everyone is able to fully enjoy that right; not everyone is able to obtain an education that is empowering, relevant, safe and useful. Women who have lived in violent homes, who have been subjected to physical or sexual abuse, who have experienced systemic violence such as that experienced by many women at residential school, did not receive an education that was safe, empowering, relevant or useful.
This kit about violence and women's education was designed for adult educators and learners. It's main concern is to look at how violence affects a woman's education and her ability to learn. Violence has many faces; it can be of a physical nature, emotional, sexual, racist or concerning one's spirituality. The Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW) established a national working group to oversee this project, with women from all parts of the country contributing to the pilot workshops.
In the document are sections on describing the barriers to women's education, sharing our experiences, creating a better learning environment and resources such as workshop guidelines, a guide to survivor's language, as well as publications, kits and videos to be used as references.
This kit is designed for adult educators and is CCLOW's way of sharing some of our experiences and ideas gathered from documents we have produced in the past and workshops we have conducted across the country . We also hope it will encourage you to think about the issues raised here, to use the ideas and techniques discussed by our authors, to share this material with your learners, to adapt and/or expand these ideas so they suit your learners, and to collect materials from your community.
The kit is available at a cost of $8 plus $2 postage & handling & GST, from CCLOW, 47 Main Street, Toronto, ON M4E 2V6, Tel. (416) 699-1909, Fax (416) 699-2145. E-mail : cclow@web.apc.org
ISBN 0-921283-13-X (96.11.04)
Added: 2003-10-09
5. Learning About Participatory Approaches in Adult Literacy Education (2000)
Six research in practice studies
Authors: Mary Norton, Grace V. Malicky, Andrea Pheasey, Audrey Fofonoff, Deborah Morgan, Linda Keam
This document grew out of a research project sponsored by The Learning Centre Literacy Association in Edmonton, in collaboration with the University of Alberta Faculty of Education. Carried out between 1998 and 2000, the project explored participatory approaches and research in practice.
The resulting document includes six research reports, as well as chapters about participatory approaches; research in practice; and the project itself.
Specific reports focus on group process in a computer training program; practitioner-based research in a First Nations community; factors that can affect the sharing of the facilitator’s role in a women’s writing group; first steps in a participatory practice; challenges to sharing power in an adult literacy program; and reasons for non-participation in literacy programs.
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Added: 2002-12-24
6. Learning to Change, Reel to Real (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nancy Bennett
“We know now that an abusive childhood can lead to an abusive marriage and so the picture spins, reel to reel.”
In this article, the author tells of her history of abuse and how, through education and perseverance, she broke the cycle of abuse.
Added: 2004-07-30
7. 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
8. 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
9. A New Beginning (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jean Wasegijig
The author talks about her abusive marriage and it effects on her physically, socially, emotionally, and psychologically.
Added: 2004-08-03
10. Stories from Pinegrove (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
What is the effect of violence on education? There are many children in our school systems who are labeled as "hyper", socially retarded, with behavioral problems, etc. We have readiness classes for the children who are unable to function properly in regular classrooms. These children are not "bad kids" as many people believe. They are trying the best that they can to survive. So often they are asking for help through their behaviour.
In the stories in this article, some of the women tell us what they endured as children. They tell us why they couldn't concentrate during class time, why they didn't have time to study for exams, why they came to school hungry or tired. Even though these things happened many years ago, their memories are as clear as though they were in school yesterday.
Added: 2004-08-03
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