Velis, Jean - Pierre. "From the Campsite to the Street" in Alpha :90. Current Research in Literacy. Jean-Paul Hautecoeur, ed., Quebec: Ministere de l'education du Quebec, and UNESCO Institute for Education.1990.

Internet Resources on Street Literacy..

http://novel.nifl.gov/forums.htm - National Institute for Literacy (U.S.) information on subscribing to the Literacy and Homelessness listserv, which is like a free conference and bulletin board.

http://www.torque.net/~schalp/homepage.htm - St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program in Toronto.

Writing by People who are Homeless and Popular Media

Beat the Street students. Heart Beats. Writings by the people of Beat the Street. Toronto: Frontier College Press. February, 1994. Beat the Street has many other publications. To order, contact Beat the Street, 290 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Canada. Telephone: (416) 979 - 3361.

Beat the Street Women's Committee. Recipes for Political Action. Toronto: Beat the Street, 1993. This book includes stories by homeless women and youth, articles on the formation of a women's committee and a Clear Language sexual harrassment policy.

Coare, Pam and Loma Jones. " Inside-Outside. A Homeless People's Writing Project" in Adults Learning. January, 1996. P. 105 - 106.

Eighner, Lars. Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and On theStreets. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Manno, Michael and Olivia Chow, eds. Street Writings: Poetry and Prose by Street Youth. Toronto: Olivia Chow, 1992. Available at the Alpha Ontario Library.


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