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Literacy:
Illiteracy: tool for oppression
Literate adults: better
employees, parents and community.
Illit.: heavily implicated
in crimes landing prisoners behind bars.
82% Jail high school
drop-outs, 50% unable read/write at all, cost FL $18,159 p.a.
Tax revenue lost pp $2,773 = 30 yr. career $86,526
FL: 1 class drop-outs only
30 yr. = $2,696,341,230 – almost $3 bln.
3 X more likely to need
Social Services, slip into Poverty.
1/3 Welfare mothers
functionally illiterate, left to starve when man breadwinner leaves.
60% unemployed
no basic skills to be trained for technical jobs.
English as 2nd
Language - tackle literacy however it
occurs kids withdraw – lost own language while not properly
mastering new, sending them into
spiral of underachievement.
Why Drop-out?:
31.3% failed keep up with
school work
39.9% failing
Func. Illit.= lost or
never properly acquired adequate reading/writing skills to function in
present day society – chilling indictment of school systems.
Stats:
Worldwide: 861 mln. Adults, 140 mln 15 – 24 year olds, 1/ 7 Wealthiest
Nations? US: 154.72 mln. – 1/5 adults (J)
“2 + 2 don’t make 4 in my book.”
Danger:
less than 10% adults need help learn to read seek help.
Hold down anything but
menial job, lack reading skills navigate many everyday tasks, cannot
read well enough to a fill out a job application, pass driver’s test,
read map, or understand the directions on medicines, bus schedule,
balance a chequebook, get ahead on the job.
Can’t help their children
with homework, read bedtime stories. Women 2/3 of illiterates
How help?
UN World Education Forum
Dakar, Senegal 2000: Education for All by 2015
Get our children to care
about our concern and let them help mentor someone.
Read to our children – let
them see you reading for pleasure.
Computer’s good
– extra encouragement.
Illiterate does not mean
stupid – learnt to get by on wits like animal.
Stale, stagnant
know-it-all attitude? – stay away from them.
Re-evaluate our
thinking – Europe, choose University or Technical College – both respected.
Need technicians more than
Academics!
Politician: “Comes a time to put principle aside and do what’s right.”
Get involved, volunteer,
$ CIS – most successful drop-out prev. prog. 25 years, Worth Mag. Top
10 Motivate them for their own reasons.
Man lost dog, ad $1000 reward. No replies. Stopped by news. Office,
asked for advtg. Mgr. “Not in” “Asst. mgr?” “Out too” “Good grief, everyone
out?” “Yes, Sir. They’re all out looking for your dog!”
Reward
each step, no matter how small – building success
habit.
Failed exams?
Red Flag! Report card 5 F’s, “What do
you think, Dad – hereditary or environment?” MMX – make learning
exciting – builds esteem, excel in school + sports, better job
Benefits:
* Self-esteem * Skills Job * Income * Family bonding
* Lower Taxes for you and
your corporation * Safer Community
This info is not from some
Third World country. We’re talking about your employees, your managers, your
friends, church-members. No country immune to Func. Illit.
Functional Literacy = way of
life. Frightening but revealing: older adults who’d learnt basic
reading/writing in school, had lapsed into illiteracy ‘cos didn’t use
skills in way relevant to them.
Literacy – powerful tool
against poverty and injustice, for right changes.
Our U. N. motto: Literacy
is Freedom
U. N. Workshop – 9/04
Literacy: Illiteracy:
tool for oppression
Literate adults: better
employees, parents and community.
Illit.: heavily implicated
in crimes landing prisoners behind bars.
82% Jail high school
drop-outs, 50% unable read/write at all, cost FL $18,159 p.a.
Tax revenue lost pp $2,773 = 30 yr. career $86,526
FL: 1 class drop-outs only
30 yr. = $2,696,341,230 – almost $3 bln.
3 X more likely to need
Social Services, slip into Poverty.
1/3 Welfare mothers
functionally illiterate, left to starve when man breadwinner leaves.
60% unemployed
no basic skills to be trained for technical jobs.
English as 2nd
Language - tackle literacy however it
occurs kids withdraw – lost own language while not properly
mastering new, sending them into
spiral of underachievement.
Why Drop-out?:
31.3% failed keep up with
school work
39.9% failing
Func. Illit.= lost or
never properly acquired adequate reading/writing skills to function in
present day society – chilling indictment of school systems.
Stats:
Worldwide: 861 mln. Adults, 140 mln 15 – 24 year olds, 1/ 7 Wealthiest
Nations? US: 154.72 mln. – 1/5 adults
“2 + 2 don’t make 4 in my book.”
Danger:
less than 10% adults need help learn to read seek help.
Hold down anything but
menial job, lack reading skills navigate many everyday tasks, cannot
read well enough to a fill out a job application, pass driver’s test,
read map, or understand the directions on medicines, bus schedule,
balance a chequebook, get ahead on the job.
Can’t help their children
with homework, read bedtime stories. Women 2/3 of illiterates
How help?
UN World Education Forum
Dakar, Senegal 2000: Education for All by 2015
Get our children to care
about our concern and let them help mentor someone.
Read to our children – let
them see you reading for pleasure.
Computer’s good
– extra encouragement.
Illiterate does not mean
stupid – learnt to get by on wits like animal.
Stale, stagnant
know-it-all attitude? – stay away from them.
Re-evaluate our
thinking – Europe, choose University or Technical College – both respected.
Need technicians more than
Academics!
(J)
Politician: “Comes a time to put principle aside and do what’s right.”
Get involved, volunteer,
$ CIS – most successful drop-out prev. prog. 25 years, Worth Mag. Top
10 Motivate them for their own reasons.
Man lost dog, ad $1000 reward. No replies. Stopped by news. Office,
asked for advtg. Mgr. “Not in” “Asst. mgr?” “Out too” “Good grief, everyone
out?” “Yes, Sir. They’re all out looking for your dog!”
Reward
each step, no matter how small – building success
habit.
Failed exams?
Red Flag! Report card 5 F’s, “What do
you think, Dad – hereditary or environment?” MMX – make learning
exciting – builds esteem, excel in school + sports, better job
Benefits:
* Self-esteem * Skills Job * Income * Family bonding
* Lower Taxes for you and
your corporation * Safer Community
This info is not from some
Third World country. We’re talking about your employees, your managers, your
friends, church-members. No country immune to Func. Illit.
Functional Literacy = way of
life. Frightening but revealing: older adults who’d learnt basic
reading/writing in school, had lapsed into illiteracy ‘cos didn’t use
skills in way relevant to them.
Literacy – powerful tool
against poverty and injustice, for right changes.
Our U. N. motto: Literacy
is Freedom
Communications & Lack of
Comprehension/Understanding
"Individual Taking Charge of/A Person Conforming Education through Literacy to
Improve Personal Quality of Life/Lifestyle"?
It's a long
title but whatever you could come up with should cover that:
1. It's up to
the individual to make the changes in his life.
2. It should
be done in an individually motivated/personally designed style.
3. Functional
Illiteracy is responsible for the problems of over 75% of jailed prisoners,
people on welfare, low school results, etc. etc.
I like the
emphasis on individuals being the engines for learning. In the end, that’s the
only thing that works. The word “literacy” can be interpreted differently. I’m
not so much concerned about capacities to read and write (as important as they
are), as with the capacities to understand issues and appreciate who you are as
a member of the community. Grundtvig emphasized “the spoken word” rather than
literary accomplishments. Needless to say, we need both, and perhaps we should
concentrate in September on re-defining the term “literacy.”
Preventative Environmental Conditioning Retraining for the Workforce (Panels 2
&/or 3)
Information
techniques should be made available by Structured Training enabling individuals
to become self-sustainable. This Training should include job retraining,
thinking skills, decision-making, problem-solving skills, character training,
retraining individual’s contribution to society to break environmental
conditioning which created mental barriers regarding race, sex, right education,
physical appearance, age, etc.
NGO MIDDA
Y
INTERACTIVE
WORKSHOP
PROPOSAL FORM
Using this format, please email your proposal to:
Middavundoi04@aol.com OR fax this form to: 212-682-8013 by 31 MAY 2004
PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT
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Sponsoring Organization and
Speaker:
Association
for World Education
Linda D.
Bolitho
Title of Workshop:
Preventative Environmental
Conditioning Retraining for the Workforce
MDG Focus:
(Panels 2
& 3 of Proposed Plenary
Sessions)
Workshop Description (50 words only (may be used in the
Conference Program)
Information
techniques should be made available by Structured Training enabling individuals
to become self-sustainable. This Training should include job retraining,
thinking skills, decision-making, problem-solving skills, character training,
retraining individual’s contribution to society to break environmental
conditioning which created mental barriers regarding race, sex, right education,
physical appearance, age, etc.
Names of Presenter and his/her
organizational affiliation/title/function
Association
for World Education
Linda D.
Bolitho
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