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Claiming
our place: a workbook to help women become active in the community.
Jan Sherman and the Women’s Group at Action Read, 2000.
This
book was developed out of a project that focused on helping
women in literacy programs build connections in their communities
through volunteer placements, employment or access to services." The
book is primarily a book of exercises that address self-care,
human rights, discrimination, setting goals, and getting a job.
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A Dream that Walks: a goal setting workbook. Myrna Hanna, 2000.
Book and video.
The workbook is written for adults at Literacy Levels 1 and
2 and are working with a tutor or teacher. It is a tool that
helps
break goals down into steps. In the video, learners talk about
their experiences setting goals.
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Educating for a change. Rick Arnold, et al., 1991.
An excellent guide for anyone wanting to use participatory
pedagogical techniques in teaching or social analysis sessions.
Places
educational tools and adult learning within the context of
education for empowerment.
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Elephant Mountain. Art Boudreau, 2005.
The first novel by a 2005 Canada Post Literacy Award winner,
featuring a young Irishman who comes to British Columbia
in the 1890s and becomes a gold prospector.
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Literacy happens: a resource manual for community literacy awareness
training. By Ruth Hayden and Maureen Saunders, 2002.
This manual
provides community workers with a "core materials
to understand how literacy is learned, developed and used within
community and family contexts.... The manual provides the background
information needed to present literacy awareness workshops to
a range of audiences." It is directed at those with a literacy
background.
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LiteracyNow: building
lasting legacies in British Columbia’s
communities: a planning guide. 2010 Legacies Now, 2005.
This manual is intended to support communities as they chose
to focus on literacy issues. It aims to assist in bringing
interested parties together to discuss literacy, submitting applications
for provincial planning funds, mobilize local community energy
and knowledge, assess literacy needs, identify gaps in current
literacy work and prepare a community literacy plan.
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A practical approach to literacy program evaluation. John Anderson
and Literacy Link South Central, 2000.
"The
intent of the manual is to propose methodology, and to provide
information and tools concerning the collection, analysis and
application of data related to the evaluation process....You
will find definitions, suggestions for sampling instruments and
data collection tools, sample forms, and methodology for analyzing
data." (Foreword).
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Problem-posing at
work: English for action and Popular Educator’s
guide. Nina Wallerstein and Elsa Auerbach, 2004.
English
for Action is an ESL textbook that draws on popular education
and Freirian methods which integrate learners’ experiences
into the learning process. The Popular Educator’s Guide
can act as a guide to the ESL textbook, and as a guide to problem-posing,
critical reflection, and action for people in many fields, including
literacy and community development.
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Reading work: Literacies in the new workplace. Mary Ellen Belfiore,
et al., 2003.
"Reading literacies" bridges
theory with practice and is aimed at practitioners who want
to further examine the
complexities
of workplace education. The researchers each spent several months
in diverse locations studying and interacting with employees
and their analysis places workplace education within the social
context of people's lives.
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Summer reading club: outreach library service through a neighbourhood
storytent program. Prepared for the Saint John Free Public Library
by Cheryl Brown and Wendell Dryden, 2005.
The Storytent Program is a literacy support program for children
and family and a method of library outreach. Brown and Dryden
document the best practices for operating a storytent program,
which, just as it sounds, involves conducting reading programs
under small tents.
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The Volunteer Recruitment (and membership development) Book.
Susan Ellis, 2002.
A book
of advice of where to look for new volunteers, how to design
the best jobs for volunteers, why some people volunteer
and others do not, how the organization’s image affects
recruitment, recruitment techniques, how to diversify your volunteer
base, and how to find new members. Please reply to library@literacy.bc.ca to borrow this resource.
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Wild garden: art, education, and the culture of resistance.
dian marino, 1997.
dian marino was an artist, activist, and educator based in
Toronto. After her death in 1993 her loved ones produced this
book of
her art, interviews, teaching tools, and stories to teach others
about her combination of art, participatory methods, and politics
in education.
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reply to library@literacy.bc.ca to
borrow this resource.
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Writing up qualitative research. Harry F. Wolcott, 2nd edition,
2001.
A short guide with tips and techniques for the entire writing
process, be it for an article, thesis, or book. The author
covers starting off on the right foot (right down to his preferred
height
for desks and chairs!) to keeping track of references to refining
editing skills to linking qualitative research to theory.
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