Whats the tie between Women, Violence and Adult Education?
World Education’s Women, Violence, and Adult Education Project recognizes that low education skills, unemployment, poverty, and violence against women are closely connected. This three-year project aims to help people in adult education and family violence services work in partnership with adult learners so that women who experience violence are supported in their educational goals. The Women, Violence and Adult Education Institute As a first step in the Women, Violence and Adult Education Project, we are inviting people working in adult education centers to attend a three day institute to explore how issues of violence affect learning. At the Institute we will: Look at issues of violence in society, particularly the connections between violence and adult basic education; work with noted Canadian researcher Jenny Horsman on her findings around female adult learners and violence; explore processes of networking to provide for counseling, shelter, and other needs of women surviving viole
