WL08/9: Landscapes of Difference

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Conference Information

WE LEARN 5th Annual (Net)Working Gathering & Conference on Women & Literacy
Building Alliances / Construyendo Alianzas

March 7- 8, 2008
Fordham University at Lincoln Center (New York City)

To access the WE LEARN web page click here http://www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

To access the WE LEARN web page about the conference http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html

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Session: Landscapes of Difference - Culture, mobility, and learning in the construction of female identity

Immigrants move from one country to another uprooting families for economic, political, religious, and social reasons, often leaving family and history of place behind. Migrants traverse landscapes, continuously on the move, following agricultural growing seasons or housing booms often retracing steps over and over again yet never settling in one place, but many places. A landscape is not a given, a piece of reality that is simply there, but an effort of imagination, an ordering of reality from different angles. This session examines how dimensions of mobility, spatiality and culture influence learning and identity construction of diverse women. How five women experienced the destabilizing effects when the flow of their lives shifted and how they made meaning as they relocated from one place to another are taken into account. It is the internal shift in sense of well being and identity that is often profoundly thrown into question.

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  • We know that changes in location have an impact on the literacy practices of learners (or really, everybody). How do some other skills ebb and flow with shifts in landscape?
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