Hello my name is Joe Ramos and I would be interested in particpating. I have completed a 53 page ( 57 pages with references) literature review on literacy in prisons. At the moment I am waiting for my professor to approve it or make me do some final corrections to it. I was in an M.A. in Adult Education Program at and this is my culminating project.

Since a majority of the men and women incarcerated are minorities this might fit into your Chapter proposals on, "It's About Race." The title of my literature review is, "Connecting Creative Writing with Prison Literacy: Creative Writing as a Literacy Tool. " An Analysis of how Creative Writing can help inmates increase literacy skills, raise their self-esteem & lower recidivism in prison. 

This literature review involves a review of two large literacy studies, the National Literacy Study, the Prison Literacy study and a review of Seven Prisons across the United States who use creative writing as a tool to bridge literacy, self-esteem and recidivism and other studies including Paulo Freire. Though I studied 14-16 programs across the U.S., I concentrated on 7 to make the literature review more managable.

One of the chapters reviewed is from Professor  V. Sheared's (2001) Making Space:Merging Theory And Practice in Adult Education, Chapter 12 Education, Incarceration, and the Marginalization of Women by Irene C. Baird (2001).

As an Adult Educator and a volunteer in the Criminal Justice System in Alameda, California, I find the issue of literacy in prisons as a "hot topic" that needs to be addressed especially with it's connection with race.


Joe Ramos 

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Hi Subscribers,
The people on this list are the ones who might be interested in writing
a chapter for this book, so I'm forwarding it to you.  The deadline to
propose a chapter is October 31, so don't put this off if you are
interested!
Donna




> From: College of Education <vsheared at saclink.csus.edu>

> Date: October 18, 2006 6:46:53 AM EDT

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> Cc: Elizabeth Peterson <EPeterson at nl.edu>, Juanita Johnson-Bailey 

> <jjb at uga.edu>, Scipio Colin <scolin at nl.edu>, "Brookfield, Stephen D." 

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> Subject: [AAACE-NLA] Call for chapter proposals It's About Race: A 

> Dialogue among adult educators

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> Memorandum

>

>

>

> October 13, 2006

>

> TO:       Perspective Contributors

>

> FROM:       Vanessa Sheared, Stephen Brookfield, Scipio A.J. Colin,  

> III,

> Juanita Johnson-Bailey, & Elizabeth Peterson (editors)

>

> RE:     It's About Race: A Dialogue Among Adult Educators - Book

>

>

> On behalf of my colleagues, Stephen Brookfield, Scipio A. J. Colin 

> III, Juanita Johnson- Bailey and Elizabeth Peterson, I am sending this



> request for chapter proposals for the book we are proposing entitled, 

> It's about

> Race: A Dialogue Among Adult Educators. The proposed date for 

> publication of this book is December 2007.

>

> While we believe that it is important to write about the effects of 

> race and racism, we also believe that it is important to engage in 

> dialogue about how these factors effect or might effect our teaching, 

> learning, scholarship, and work.  It's About Race: A Dialogue Among 

> Adult Educators attempts to provide authors - folks, engaged in 

> incorporating race and racism in their teaching and scholarship - with



> an opportunity to write a chapter and then engage in a dialogue about 

> their chapter with others.

>

> Over the course of the next year, as we engage in the development of 

> this book, we hope to model the difficult process of talking to peers 

> about the ways race, racism and white supremacy frames our identities 

> and practices as adult learners and adult educators.  So if your 

> chapter proposal is accepted for inclusion in this book you will need 

> to: 1) write a chapter; 2) engage in a dialogue with us and other 

> scholars who have been selected to write within a given section of the



> book and 3) upon completion of the dialogue, provide input into the 

> development of the final chapter within the given section of the book 

> that your chapter is written.

>

> The book comprises an introduction and conclusion to be written by the



> editorial collective and four main sections.  Attached is the 

> introduction to the book and three of the four sections that we would 

> like you to consider submitting a chapter proposal.  In addition to 

> submitting a chapter proposal, you will need to complete and submit 

> the attached warrant statement.  We believe that this book will have a



> significant impact on helping us uncover, discover and model 

> strategies and opportunities for people to engage in discourse about a



> topic which has heretofore been viewed as taboo in many educational 

> settings.

>

> The deadline for chapter proposal submission is Tuesday, October 31, 

> 2006.

>

>

>

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