Questions at the time of writing the interim report (in plain text) and at the time of writing the final report (in bold text)

  • What is "research"?
  • What does research do that may be useful in terms of improving women's experience in upgrading programs?
  • What does research do that may be useful in terms of improving the upgrading programs' response to women's experience?
  • Who can/should/may be doing this research? What do they need in order to do it effectively?
  • Who are the "women participants" in literacy programs?
  • How do we recognize the experience of women who participate as literacy workers and literacy students to affirm our commonality and recognize our differences?
  • What part does "privilege" and "oppression" play in the way in which women participate together in a program, when they participate with men?
  • Why would we-women literacy students and women literacy
    workers-want to focus on women and our experience in programs?
  • Why would we-women literacy students
    and women literacy workers-focus on the way in which
    upgrading programs respond to what they hear about women's experience?
  • What does it mean for a program to be "responsible" for/toward the experience of women participants?
  • How can programs respond to the multiple layers of strength that women display within and without the programs?
  • How can programs respond to the multiple layers of violence that women face within and without the programs?
  • How can programs respond to women's experience in the context of their particular communities? This particular society?
  • Do programs work with "literacy" and "learner-centred" in ways that mean they are "woman-positive?"
  • What happens when programs become aware of women's experience, decide to change, become more responsive?
  • What happens when programs become aware of women's experience, decide not to change, become less responsive?
  • What about the men?
  • Who are the men?
  • Who will respond to the experience of the men?
  • What are the men responsible for?
  • What are programs responsible for in regard to the men? Is this different from what women are responsible for in regard to the men?
  • What does adult education theory say about facilitating change in any individual or group?
  • How does that happen in practice?
  • How can "we," as women literacy students and women literacy workers, work together in a way that demonstrates responsibility?
  • Does this mean "we" are feminist?
  • Do "we" have feminist consciousness?
  • How can "we," as women literacy students and women literacy workers, work with programs in a way that demonstrates responsibility?
  • Does this mean "we" are feminist?
  • Do "we" have feminist consciousness?


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