Too Scared to Learn

"It is an important contribution to the theory and practice of adult education which will change the way we think about the role of trauma in learners' lives and in the literacy classroom"
- Elsa Auerbach,
University of Massachusetts at Boston

Available in Canada from McGilligan Books or Worldwide from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. This explosive new study re-examines learning with a lens focused on what we now know about the prevalence and impacts of violence in women's lives. Too Scared to Learn applies current research on violence and trauma to learning in the field of adult women's literacy. Based on original research with literacy learners and instructors as well as practising therapists, Too Scared to Learn brings together a wealth of previously unconnected knowledge to spark new approaches to learning and teaching.

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ORDERING INFORMATION

Both the Canadian and International editions can be ordered from: Grass Roots Press

Canadian edition:

Too Scared to Learn (ISBN 0-9698064-8-5) $24.95

Order from your local bookstore, or mail order from:

Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1G4
Phone: (416) 922-8744 - Fax: (416) 922-1417
Website: www.womensbookstore.com

Or the distributor:

University of Toronto Press
5201 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T8
Toll Free Phone: 1-800-565-9523 - Fax: 1-800-221-9985

Or the publisher

McGilligan Books, P.O. Box 16024, 859 Dundas St. West,
Toronto, ON M6J 0W1

e-mail: mcgilliganbooks@sympatico.ca
Phone: (416) 538-0945 - Fax (416) 538-0547

U.S edition:

Published by:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah New Jersey 07430-2262

e-mail: orders@erlbaum.com
Toll Free Phone: 1-800-926-6579 - Fax: 201-236-0072

Check out LEA website at www.erlbaum.com to order 'Too Scared to Learn' directly.

Something in My Mind Besides the Everyday: Women and Literacy

"What a marvellously incendiary book, challenging all the easy assumptions we literacy providers make!"
- Feminist Collections

Something in My Mind Besides the Everyday: Women and Literacy was short-listed for the Laura Jamieson Prize.

This book examines the frequently hidden issues that contribute to the illiteracy of women, through the words of women rarely heard in the literature about literacy. Horsman examines social, personal, familial and community patterns that form the social disorganization in the lives of rural women. With interviews of rural women about their illiteracy, Horsman's theoretical analysis soundly argues that illiteracy is socially constructed.

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73 Harbord Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1G4

Phone: (416) 922-8744
Fax: (416) 922-1417
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