One of the most valuable services the ABEABC provides for its members is the periodical Groundwork. Over the years, the hardworking members who have been editors of Groundwork are David Thomas, Ace Hollibaugh, Geoff Dean, Evelyn Batten, and Margaret Nelson. Published three times a year, this journal provides program updates, committee reports, critical articles, descriptions of innovative programs, and annotated bibliographies of new materials. Another service provided to members is the circulation of ABELOPE, an envelope full of ABE teaching suggestions. Instructors submit learning activities they have successfully used to be duplicated end circulated to other members. ABELOPE and Groundwork help keep the ABE network alive between conferences. In the last three years the association has successfully undertaken two projects funded by federal grants. ABELOPE originated as part of the literacy Resource Centre project which provided practitioners with fully annotated bibliographies of ABE teaching materials and provided a mechanism for the province-wlde distribution of instructor-developed materials. The second project undertaken was the Okanagan literacy project in which a coordinator trained a team of volunteers to be tutors for adult non-readers in the Okanagan area. Hopefully the Projects Committee of the association can continue to help members secure funding for additional innovative projects. This new direction for the association came through the leadership of Evelyn Battel and Judy Rose. In the future the ABEABC will continue to promote the provision of quality basic education for adults. to act as an advocate for the undereducated and to link with other adult education associations which support the notion that a basic education Is a fundamental right for all C8nadians. Note: Handwritten notes at the end of the document:
Nov 5, 1994 – ALCC & Literacy BC merge and leave the ABEABC |
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