Volume 12, Issue 2. 1981

Themes:

literacy; critical pedagogy; illiteracy; conscientization; consciousness-raising; feminism, women's studies; oppression; reflection

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Barbara Schram, Geraldine L. Wilson, Jay Meryl, The Multicultural Project for Communication and Education, Patricia B. Campbell, Ismat Abdal-Haqq, Judy Yung, Emily Strauss Watson, Beryle Banfield, Jan M. Goodman

Materials Reviewed:

Ludell's New York Time by Brenda Wilkinson. Amazon / WorldCat
Like, Love, Lust: a View of Sex and Sexuality by John Langone. Amazon / WorldCat
If It Weren't for Benjamin (I'd Always Get to Lick the Icing Spoon) by Barbara Shook Hazen. Amazon / WorldCat
She's Not My Real Mother by Judith Vigna. Amazon / WorldCat
My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton. Amazon / WorldCat
At Grandmother's House by John Lim. Amazon / WorldCat
Only Love by Susan Sallis. Amazon / WorldCat
First Grade Takes a Test by Miriam Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
Darlene by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Girls Can Be Anything They Want by Patricia Foote. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
Cultural Action for Freedom by Paolo Freire
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paolo Freire
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton Warner
Letter to a Teacher by School Boys of Barbiani
Look! A New Thing in the Americas! The Church and Revolution in Nicaragua by Peter Hinde
The Loss of Fear: Education in Nicaragua Before and After the Revolution by George Black
Nicaragua: Nicaragua in Revolution: The Poets Speak by Bridget Aldaraca
The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Personal Report by Richard R. Fagen
Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Tomás Borge
Developing Creativity in Children: An Ideabook for Teachers by Charles E. Schaefer

Keywords:

Paolo Freire, Nicaragua, critical pedagogy, Nicaraguan Revolution, Somoza, illiteracy, literacy, liberation, Literacy Crusade, Popular Literacy Army (EPA), Popular Literacy Teachers, Sandinista's, John McFadden, Felix Vijil, Isabel C. Quintana, National Union of Teachers, Sandinista Defense Committee, Association of Rural Workers, Sandinista Trade Union Federation, Organization of Nicaraguan Women, popular alphabetizers, conscientization, Maria Suarez, Juan Jose Guerra, David L. Schwartz, Beverly Treuman, Philip Zwerling, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Black, Moskito, Rama, Suma, Spanish, bilingual, colonization, June Beer, Bilingual and Bicultural Act, MISURA-SATA, sostenimiento, workbooks, lesson plans, consciousness-raising, self-esteem, Peter L. Berger, Cynthia Brown, Alternate Schools Network, feminism, women's studies, oppression, reflection, Sandinista Popular Liberation Front (FSLN), librarians, Association of Nicaraguan Women (AMNLAE), Luisa Amanda Espinosa, National Network for Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua (NNSPN), Casa Nicaragua