Where to from here?

Drawing new lines linking literacy and healing may offer great potential for learning. A key question now is whether the literacy movement will be able to build on the discourses which support diverse possibilities for teaching in ways that recognize the widespread nature of violence and the impact of violence on learning. Change is already occurring in many individual literacy programs. As new discourses become more broadly recognized, the simple divide between literacy and therapy may shift. Addressing the impact of violence on learning may seem less of a "can of worms" and more enticing, offering the potential for creating nurturing spaces for workers and learners alike. Or, as Tammy L. Stockman a job coach based in New England suggested, maybe we can come to see worms as life-giving and necessary for growth, not something to be contained at all cost. I am left with questions about what will allow discourses of violence and education to shift radically in order to create the necessary, widespread change in the whole terrain of literacy work.