What are the connections between leadership and literacy, and liberation and empowerment? How would you define those terms? How do you support those connections?
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Empowerment is a much-used, and sometimes abused term. Something that has helped me frame notions of what it is that literacy might help us do, is access. Having access to information, knowing how to use it, knowing who has power and where seems to be part of what literacy is all about is giving people access to the learning the seek - and to acknowledgment of the strengths they have. Connections between leadership and access to power have to do, I think, with enabling ourselves to be able to make meaningful choices in our lives.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Janet, and I wonder about how important it is to have ever increasing amounts of access. Is one measure of success working through different layers of how things work, or how connected various aspects of power are? For example, making connections between women's health and literacy (for example) with how the structure of insurance limits choice.
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