DOCUMENT RESUME ED 337 607 CE 059 193 TITLE Voices Rising: A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education. Volumes 1-4. 1987-1990. INSTITUTION International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). PUB DATE 90 NOTE 269p. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Voices Rising: A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education; v1-4 1987-1990 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Education; Adult Literacy; Battered Women; Consciousness Raising; Developing Nations; Economic Development; *Employed Women; Females; *Feminism; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Illiteracy; Leadership Training; *Literacy Education; *Sex Discrimination; Sex Fairness; *Womens Education IDENTIFIERS *Popular Education ABSTRACT This document consists of the six issues of the serial "Voices Rising" issued during the four-year period 1987-1990. "Voices Rising" is the primary networking tool of the Women's Program of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Articles in these issues include: "Tribute to a Couragrus Woman--Nabila Breir"; "Centre for Women's Resources: Building the Filipino Women's Movement"; "Micro-Chip Technology: Its Impact on Women WorkersH; "ICEA: Popular Education in Quebec"; "The Feminist Challenge to Adult Education: Highlights of a Seminar"; "Feminism and Popular Education"; "Jamaica: Building Democratic Organizations"; "Lebanon: Supporting Women's Daily Struggles"; "Reaching Women: An Informal Workshop on 'Media'"; "Strengthening Grassroots Solidarity: An Informal Workshop"; "Update on the Women's Program"; "Issues in Literacy in the Urban U.S."; "Building a Women's Centre: Gregoria Apaza Centre for the Promotion of Women"; "Consolidating Voices of Mindanao Women"; "Building Leadership, Building the Movement"; "Our Identity: Feminism Rnd Popular Education"; "Leadership and Women in International Adult Education"; "Strategic Contradictions: Organizational Democracy and Dependence on International Aid"; "Growing Pains: Reflections cn the History of Flora Tristan, Peru"; "Summing Up: Common Threads"; "Moving On: ICAE Harare Meetings"; "Zimbabwe: Producing a Popular Text"; "Mali: The Fight Is Ours"; "South Africa: Making Our Voices Heard"; "Refugee Women in Canada"; "Leadership Training and Consciousness Raising among Chicana Workers in the U.S."; "Literacy--A Tool for Empowerment of Women?"; "Khulumani Makhosikazi: Women and Literacy"; "Tomorrow Will Be Different: A Literacy Course for Women"; "Keeping the Circle Strong: Native Women's Resource Centre, Toronto, Canada"; "On the Training of Tutors for Women's Literacy"; "Expanding the 'Generative Worli' Process: Women's Iron Will, Haiti"; "Publishing Women's Stories"; "Developing Reading and Writing Skills"; "A Literacy Kit for Peasant Women in Mexico"; "1990 International Literacy Year: Agenda, Comments, Challenges"; "Five Challenges to Women's Literacy"; "Deepening the Issues and Objectives of ILY"; "Sobering Thoughts: Literacy for What?"; "Activating the Network"; "Gender and Popular Education"; "Developing a Balance between Introspection and Action"; "Women, Literacy, and Educatiun in Africa"; "A Critical Moment for Women Edudators"; "Fighting Repression, Building Democracy"; "After the Decade: Trends in Funding to Women's Organiza'cionV; "Playing the Funding Game"; "Exploring the Alternatives to State Pandingin Canada"; "Questioning Official Development Assistance In the Philippines"; "Literacy: The Critique from Below"; "Batteved Women: Breaking the Cycle"; "Self-Help Groups: Working towards an End to Domestic Violence"; "Knowing Our Rights, Defending Our Integrity"; "Norma Virginia Guirola de Herrera: Her Example Lives On"; "The Mian Women's Human Rights Commission"; "The International Sex Trade"; and "Oka Is All of Us." 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BEST COPYAVAILABLE VOLUME 1, 1987 o/ces A Bulletin about Women and Popular Edu on Special Report On: Micro-Chip Technology:Its Impact on Women Workers Philippines ConsultationOctober 1986 Women's Program of the international Councilfor Adult Education maydwie1987 BEST COPY AVAILABLE Voices Rising isthe primary networking tool of the Women's Programof Nay/June 1987 the ICAE.It links women working inthe Voices Rising,: broad field of adult education--teachers, program coord- A Bulletin about Women and Popular learners, researchers, Education inators, development workers, grassroots organizers and activists In women'sand The Women's Program works with individuals popular struggle. It speaks to womenwho and groups in different regions of the are working withpopular fr,rms of education world who are exploring and developing as tools forsocial change and the popular forms of education which reflect empowerment of women. hnd address women's issues. Our aim is to contribute to the development of a feminist Voices Rising aims to: popular education that makes connections between broad social struggles, and the personal issues and oppression women face Promote the sharing of exper- daily. iences; The Program is presently coordinated from a Provide a forum fordiscussion the office of the Participatory Research and debate of key issues for Group (PRG),in consultation with women; representatives from various regions. PRG is a Canadian popular education and Disseminate updated information research collective. We undertake project on useful resources,educational work with Canadian Native peoples, within materials and important meetings; the local literacy community, and on the issue of microtechnology and women workers, Foster the development of a in Canada and internationally. PRG is also active in an international participatory feminist practice in popular and research and popular education network, and adult education. publishes a bi-annual newsletter. The usefulness ofthe Bulletin ICAE President depends on the input of the readership.We Nita Barrow welcome letters,short articles, questions and reflective notes on your programsand Women's Program Coordinator experiences. Through your contributionsand Lynda Yanz involvement we can share and build upon our knowledge, deepen our understanding of the Bulletin Coordination issues, and develop our strategiesfor Jane Gurr action. Desiga and Production Amy Gottlieb Working Group We gratefully acknowledgethe financial Rachel Epstein, Linzi Nanicom, contributions of: The Canadian Jenny Horsaan, Carol-Anne O'Brien International Development Agency and the Swedish International Development The Women's Program of the International Authority. Council for Adult Education C/O Participator.? Research Group 229 College Street, Suite 309 Toronto, Ontario CanadaM5T 1R4 InternationalCounclIforAdultEducation Conseil International d'Education des Adultes (416) 977-8118 Consejo internacional de Educackin de Adultos reratt-L-11 601-1-14-14 4 9111/ .1,1M0111, ffi5-,14 We thought it was time for a change. So, Interviews. Our experience as activists our newsletter (now promoted to the rank of and publishers,is that many of us simply "bulletin") has a new look, a new name, and never find the time and space to write most importantly (we hope you'll agree), a articles which capture our insights and stronger and more focussed content. analyses of our work. Yet we constantly The two years during which we tell and re-tell those "stories" in published Voices Rising's predecessor, "The different forms to our colleagues, friends, Women's Program Newsletter", were in many and families. Our work lives are not ways a testing ground for analyzing what organized to provide the kind of reflective type of networking and discussion tool space that writing takes. We think would be most useful to the growing numbers interviews are one effective method of of women we are in contact with. Our sharing our experiences and dilemmas readers, mostly in different parts of the without adding the pressure of another task Third World, but in North America and to our already overbooked agendas. Two Europe as well, are using education as a other sections that willbe regular tIonscious and integral component of their features of the Bulletin are Linking and strategies to empower and organize women. the Noticeboard,and we look forward to What we found was that women wanted to your contributions. share their experiences, and perhaps Another important change,Is that we discuss some of the problems they were are now producing the Bulletinin both facing; they wanted to learn from what Spanish and English. It has become clear others were doing; and they wanted to have that is important for us to widen access to contact with women and groups In other the Bulletin and other Women's Program parts of the world. Women wanted a publications by making them avhilablein publication that provided information about languages other than English. We