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

[ken Goodman]

Yetta and Jim Hofffman are planning to pull the papers from the Hall of 
Fame strand at IRA into a book. Qhe'll keep members informed of the 
progress.
Ken Goodman

klare wrote:

> 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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