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Women and Increased Learning Opportunities


Women and Increased Learning Opportunities

Public Education

CCLOW maintains regular updates to its web site, using it to promote activities and publications sales, recruit volunteers, and generally raise awareness about current issues facing women in their education and training endeavours. Board and project activities: are conducted, for the most part, through internal listservs set up through our web provider, the National Adult Literacy Database, as part of our on-going Operation Online.

Visit our web site for up-to-date information on CCLOW activities and projects:
http://www.nald.ca/cclow.htm

CCLOW was an active participant in Toronto's Word on the Street, a day long festival and celebration of literacy and reading. CCLOW staff participated in bi-weekly meetings of the Literacy Planning Group throughout the summer of 1998, culminating a the Literacy Tent activities during Word on the Street, held in Toronto on September 27th, 1998.

References
Boxer, Marilyn J. "For and About Women: The Theory and Practice of Women's Studies in the United States." Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology. Eds. Nannerl O. Keohane, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, and Barbara C. Gelpi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 237-271.

Eichler, Margrit, and Jeanne Lapointe. "On the Treatment of the Sexes in Research." Ottawa: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1985.

Hamilton, Roberta. "Feminists in the Academy: Intellectuals or Political Subversives?" Queen's Quarterly 92.1 (1985): 3-20.

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Phyllis Serota, "Aunt Molly," oil on canvas, 44' x 60." Photo: Trevor Mills. Reprinted from WEdf Spring 1988, Volume 6, No.2.

Schuster, Marilyn, and Susan Van Dyne. "Placing Women in the Liberal Arts: Stages of Curriculum Transformation." Harvard Educational Review 54.4 (1984): 413- 428.

Spender, Dale, ed. Men's Studies Modified: The Impact of Feminism on the Academic Disciplines. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981.



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