[Reading-hall-of-fame] Literacy Frees the World Tour press release

[klare]

Hi, Tom

The press release about your UNESCO tour is fascinating. I also hope you 
will make your paper in the Hall of Fame strand at the coming IRA meetings 
available; I would like to see it when it is available, if possible.

Best wishes,

George

--On Friday, October 22, 2004 4:30 PM -0700 Thomas Sticht 
<tsticht@znet.com> wrote:

> Thomas G. Sticht
> International Consultant in Adult Education
>
> PRESS RELEASE 							October 22, 2004
>
> UNESCO Laureate Completes Literacy Tour
>
> El Cajon, CA: Illiteracy afflicts almost a billion adults around the
> world, and tens of millions more in industrialized nations are struggling
> with the new demands for literacy in the information age. This is one of
> the messages Tom Sticht, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Medal laureate in 2003 took
> to some 3,000 adult literacy teachers, students, business leaders and
> others in a first of its kind tour of thirteen cities in Canada, the
> United Kingdom, and the United States.
>
> Conducted from May through October this year, Sticht?s tour celebrated the
> work that adult literacy teachers are doing around the world. The tour?s
> name, Literacy Frees the World, was based on the United Nations Literacy
> Decade?s (2003-2012) theme Literacy as Freedom. Focusing on President
> Franklin D. Roosevelt?s famous Four Freedoms speech to the U.S. Congress
> in 1941, Sticht illustrated how adult literacy teachers around the world
> have helped hundreds of millions of illiterate adults become literate and
> achieve Roosevelt?s Freedom of Voice and Expression, Freedom of Worship,
> Freedom from Want and Freedom from Fear.
>
> Looking toward the future, Sticht advised tour participants that their
> jobs will become more critical due to increased demands for adult literacy
> development caused by the globalization of economies, immigration, and the
> mixing of cultures.  In addition, world-wide research is revealing the
> important role that adult literacy development plays in the education of
> children. More and more, world educators are beginning to recognize that
> the right of children to education includes the right to educated parents.
> For this reason, national policies of education should place the same
> importance on the education of adults as they do on the education of
> children.
>
> 						# # #
>
> Contact: Dr. Tom Sticht
> International Consultant in Adult Education
> 2062 Valley View Blvd.
> El Cajon, CA 92019-2059
> Tel/fax: (619) 444-9133
> Email: tsticht@aznet.net
>
> A tour report- Literacy Frees the World: A Vision of the Future Through a
> Prism of the Past -is now available in PDF or html formats for free
> downloading at
>
> http://www.nald.ca/WHATNEW/hdlnenws.htm
>
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