[Reading-hall-of-fame] Workshop on Intergenerational Inequalities

[tsticht at znet.com]

Yetta, Vickie, and all: In line with our recent discussion of multiple life
cycles education policy and intergenerational transfer of literacy, you may
find the following announcement of interest. I placed this note on a couple
of adult
literacy web discussion lists. It calls attention to a workshop I will
offer next year. This is one way, in addition to writing and publishing
papers, that I try to advocate for more attention (and funding) for adult
literacy education. Every since I started drawing Social Secturity in 1999
I have offered professional workshops for no fee if folks cover my travel
expenses. This has made it possible for adult literacy providers who are
generally underfunded to have professional development workshops that they
might not be able to afford otherwise. Perhaps the multiple life cycles
education policy is something RHF members could give some thought to and
how to go about formulating the policy and providing good examples of how
to implement policy in workable programs. One idea relevant to a multiple
life cycles education policy that Rosa Maria Torres has expressed which I
like a lot is:

The Children's Right to Education Includes the Right to Educated Parents!

Tom Sticht


Here is the announcement I placed on web discussion lists:

Colleagues: For over one hundred years statistical studies of inequalities
in education and economic achievements of one generation have been found
likely to be replicated in the next generation. That is, education and
economic inequalities are largely replicated across multiple life cycles:
better educated parents gain better economic positions and produce children
who, in turn, achieve better education and economic positions in society.

Though the multiple life cycles inequalities in education and economic
achievements are the trend, individuals and families often break out of
this cycle of inequality and this is typically achieved through breaking
out of the cycle of low educational achievement and then using ones
elevated educational position to break out of the cycle of low economic
achievement by qualifying for or creating better paying work.

Despite the well known multiple life cycles of inequalities in education and
economic achievements, our educational and human resource development
policies focus on one generation. This is expressed in policies which today
call for lifelong education, without explicitly recognizing the
intergenerational effects of this education. In turn, this commitment to
lifelong learning is heavily biased toward childhood as the time for
investing in education to reduce inequalities in education and economic
achievements in adulthood. This is clearly indicated in policies which have
resulted in federal government annual investments in the tens of billions of
dollars for compensatory early childhood education, while providing only a
little over $550 million for compensatory adult education for all 50 states
for the undereducated parents of the children who are being served in the
early childhood programs.

In my new free workshop for 2013 I review extensive data on
intergenerational inequalities in education and economics. I also present
data from many studies to suggest that greater investments in the education
of undereducated youth and adults, many of whom are parents or will become
parents, can help break the multiple life cycles of inequalities in
education and economic achievement.

The workshop is currently being developed for presentation in Michigan in
May of 2013 and includes the following working title and topics:

Workshop Title:
Intergenerational Workforce Literacy Development

Presenter:
Dr. Tom Sticht
International Consultant in Adult Education

Schedule

Part 1  9:00-10:30am

Contemporary Issues of Intergenerational                                    
                                                                            
                             Inequalities in Education and Economic
Achievement: Investing in Early Childhood Education,
Career Pathways, and Postsecondary Education
for Youth and Adults

Professional Wisdom and Scientific Evidence
for Investing in Adult Education to Reduce
Inequalities in Children’s Education

Break 10:30-10:45am

Pare 2 10:45-12:00am

The Intergenerational Transfer of Cognitive
& Non-Cognitive Abilities For Overcoming
Inequalities in Educational and Economic
Achievements

Oracy and Literacy Transfer Across Generations:
Cognitive Science Theory and Applications
to Practice in Children’s and Adults’ Education

Lunch 12:00-12:30pm

Part 3 12:30-  2:00pm

Intergenerational Effects of Contextualized and
Integrated Basic Skills and Work-Related Education

Teach the Mother and Reach the Child: Integrated                            
                                                                            
                           Basic Skills and Job Skills Education With
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)

Break 2:00-    2:15pm

Part 4 2:15-    3:30pm

Integration of Basic Education, Work, and Parenting Skills
Education for the Reduction of Intergenerational
Inequalities in Education and Economics

Toward a Multiple Life Cycles Education Policy

Workshop Ends


For further information on the free workshops for 2013
contact me at tsticht at aznet.net