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Moving research about addressing the impacts of violence on learning into practice By Evelyn Battell, Shayna Hornstein, Jenny Horsman, Christianna Jones, Judy Murphy, Ningwakwe/E. Priscilla George, Kate Nonesuch, Mary Norton, Nadine Sookermany, Sheila Stewart and Heather Ward.
 Research has helped us to understand the impacts of violence on learning and to identify ways to address them. How can we move this research more widely into literacy practice? This question was a starting point for research by eleven practitioners from across Canada – here they describe their research and share what they learned in print and multi-media presentations.
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 Teaching Writing
Kate Nonesuch from Duncan, British Columbia, talks to Evelyn Battell about how she works on writing with women from a Transition House. She talks about how she creates space where women can choose what and how they want to write about their lives. Read their conversation here.
A collection of this writing is included in “New Beginnings”.
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How Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Affects Writing and Learning: What Neuroscience Suggests about the Memoir Assignment. By Mary Arnold Schwartz. MA Thesis. Department of English and Linguistics, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, May, 2005.
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Finding Voice
Women from Glory House recovery home, Long Island, New York,were given voice in a video documenting a literacy class in which they were able to reflect on and write about their lives.
Watch the video below:
Their writing is also posted online on the Women of Glory House blog.
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Projecting Ourselves: Our Words, Our Future Images and words from women in our community
Born out of an open invitation extended to women in the community, this was a pilot project, a workshop from June 6 to July 13. It has been a satisfying experience, discovering in us new forms of expression and ways of bettering ourselves. Breaking with traditional forms of expression, the project included writing (through journaling, spontaneous writing, and essay writing), photography, oral expression (sharing daily events), and collage (as a form of expression).
It gave us the confidence that we can excel in every aspect of our life.
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Acknowledging Violence
Learning in Peace: A model for violence-free adult literacy programs
by Jenny Rizk with Anne Moore
Drawing from Academic Writing: Acknowledging Experience
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Shahrzad Mojab and Susan MacDonald
The Learning of an Embattled Body
by Bethany Osborne
This paper has been extensively re-written but was originally written for the course: Women, War and Learning, taught by Shahrzad Mojab, OISE/UT, Fall 2006.
Trauma and the Adult English Language Learner. ERIC Digest.
by Janet Isserlis.
Trauma and adult learning. ERIC Digest. 2003 By Sandra Kerka
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