Thank you for another fantastic day for the Festival of Literacies on Saturday May 12, 2018. We were grateful that a good many of you decided to get up early on a Saturday morning to come to OISE to see us. In addition to the live audience at the Peace Lounge, we were also streaming live on YouTube to those who couldn't make it in person.
You can find Farra's presentation as a YouTube video link below. Due to confidentiality concerns, we are not making Laura's presentation available online. The slides from both presentations are provided below for download.
We look forward to you seeing you the fall of 2018. Hope you all have a great summer!
There was a fair bit of enthusiasm regarding some activism to persuade the Ministry to provide more support to adult literacy. We'll keep you posted on what we may suggest next.
You can find Farra's presentation as a YouTube video link below. Due to confidentiality concerns, we are not making Laura's presentation available online. The slides from both presentations are provided below for download.
We look forward to you seeing you the fall of 2018. Hope you all have a great summer!
There was a fair bit of enthusiasm regarding some activism to persuade the Ministry to provide more support to adult literacy. We'll keep you posted on what we may suggest next.
THE FRAMING OF ADULT LITERACY EDUCATION IN ONTARIO
9:00 – 9:30 AM -- Registration and morning refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 AM -- Introductions and housekeeping items
9:45 – 10:30 AM -- Frameworks of Literacy Learning in the Adult Literacy Classroom | Farra Yasin
Farra Yasin is a PhD candidate at York University who has been teaching English Literacy for over ten years, including three years as a LBS instructor for the College Sector. Farra is a student of Canadian History and Literacy Theory and has completed research on the creative comic-strip writing practices of intermediate learners and the history of literacy education in Canada. She is concerned with how to develop a humanizing pedagogy that embraces the holistic understandings of learning that move beyond a settler narrative.
Farra is working on a dissertation research project that involves interviewing and observing the practice of LBS educators in order to expand and support the development of a pedagogy for teaching English in Ontario. In the process, she has gained insight into how educators transform their concepts of literacy learning into practice. Drawing from her research, teaching and learning experiences, Farra will be presenting a theoretical framework that can be used to approach literacy education in Ontario in ways that speak to the experiential, social, and cognitive aspects of literacy learning. She will also be sharing her observations about the practical ways educators address these aspects of literacy in their practice.
10:30 - 10:45 AM -- Break
10:45 – 11:30 AM -- Neoliberal conceptual framing and the "disappearing" of marginalized adults from the basic adult education learning landscape in Ontario | Laura Wyper
Laura worked in a school board based Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program for ten years, including a few years as a program coordinator for two LBS sites. She is a registered OCT teacher, a TESL Ontario / Ontario Certified English Language Teacher (OCELT), also oversaw the school board's adult non-credit ESL program, and is a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (LHAE) at OISE, University of Toronto. Her PhD program of study was in Adult Education and Community Development with a specialization in Comparative, International and Development Education. Laura recently left the school board to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Economic and Social Development at Algoma University.
Laura's presentation will be on her doctoral research project which uses an anti-colonial, anti-oppressive practice lens to examine the basic education programs in Ontario. Drawing from the interviews she completed with LBS administrators and practitioners across Ontario, Laura will talk about the potential for, and implications of marginalization and displacement within a number of adult basic education programs in the province of Ontario. She will discuss the implications of the results from her study in relation to issues concerning equity in education, how New Public Management and neoliberal conceptual framing can create erasure as a consequence of second order policy effects, and the relationship between practitioner response and gatekeeping.
11:30 – 11:45 AM -- Final wrap up
9:00 – 9:30 AM -- Registration and morning refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 AM -- Introductions and housekeeping items
9:45 – 10:30 AM -- Frameworks of Literacy Learning in the Adult Literacy Classroom | Farra Yasin
Farra Yasin is a PhD candidate at York University who has been teaching English Literacy for over ten years, including three years as a LBS instructor for the College Sector. Farra is a student of Canadian History and Literacy Theory and has completed research on the creative comic-strip writing practices of intermediate learners and the history of literacy education in Canada. She is concerned with how to develop a humanizing pedagogy that embraces the holistic understandings of learning that move beyond a settler narrative.
Farra is working on a dissertation research project that involves interviewing and observing the practice of LBS educators in order to expand and support the development of a pedagogy for teaching English in Ontario. In the process, she has gained insight into how educators transform their concepts of literacy learning into practice. Drawing from her research, teaching and learning experiences, Farra will be presenting a theoretical framework that can be used to approach literacy education in Ontario in ways that speak to the experiential, social, and cognitive aspects of literacy learning. She will also be sharing her observations about the practical ways educators address these aspects of literacy in their practice.
10:30 - 10:45 AM -- Break
10:45 – 11:30 AM -- Neoliberal conceptual framing and the "disappearing" of marginalized adults from the basic adult education learning landscape in Ontario | Laura Wyper
Laura worked in a school board based Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program for ten years, including a few years as a program coordinator for two LBS sites. She is a registered OCT teacher, a TESL Ontario / Ontario Certified English Language Teacher (OCELT), also oversaw the school board's adult non-credit ESL program, and is a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (LHAE) at OISE, University of Toronto. Her PhD program of study was in Adult Education and Community Development with a specialization in Comparative, International and Development Education. Laura recently left the school board to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Economic and Social Development at Algoma University.
Laura's presentation will be on her doctoral research project which uses an anti-colonial, anti-oppressive practice lens to examine the basic education programs in Ontario. Drawing from the interviews she completed with LBS administrators and practitioners across Ontario, Laura will talk about the potential for, and implications of marginalization and displacement within a number of adult basic education programs in the province of Ontario. She will discuss the implications of the results from her study in relation to issues concerning equity in education, how New Public Management and neoliberal conceptual framing can create erasure as a consequence of second order policy effects, and the relationship between practitioner response and gatekeeping.
11:30 – 11:45 AM -- Final wrap up
Farra's presentation slides | |
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Laura's presentation slides | |
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