b.) As with many other educational resources, those developed for ESL, literacy and basic upgrading programs are inclined to present a stereotyped view of woman as a dependent and depressed person; in child-rearing and home-making roles or subservient occupational roles; as lacking in creativity and so on. These resources are developed largely in the United States and therefore, compound the problem by presenting the typical "American" woman rather than the typical Canadian woman. This tends to make ESL classes more difficult to conduct without relevant material on the Canadian way of life. A team of teachers working out of St. Christopher House in Toronto have done a content analysis of such material and found it sadly lacking. They are presently developing their own material by using Freire methodology. They have found that such material not only provides the necessary resources for language learning, but also facilitates changes in self-perceptions and self-esteem.¹

^1. "Literacy: Charitable enterprise or political right?" Prepared by the Literacy Working Group, the St. Christopher House, 84 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2Ll. (October, 1977).