Elsa Roberts Auerbach elsa.auerbach@umb.edu 617-287-5763

publications keynote addresses course descriptions community collaborations

Selected keynote addresses "Simple Past, Present Progressive, Future Perfect: Whose Reality is This Anyway?" TESL Manitoba Empowering Second Language Learners Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 1989. "Beyond the Classroom: The Social Context of ESL" Politics and Professionalism Conference, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, May 1989. "Connecting Community and Classroom," MATSOL Fall Conference, Boston, Oct. 1991. "Confronting Language and Literacy Barriers: Promoting Effective Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education." U.S. Dept. of Labor Women's Bureau and MassCOSH Conference, Boston, l992. "Walking the Competence Tightrope," Australian Council of Adult Literacy Conference; Perth, Australia, July 1994. "Reading between the Lines of Family Literacy Discourse," Family Literacy Pre-Conference Institute, International Reading Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, May, 1997. "The Power of Voices or the Voices of Power?" Community-based Approaches to Adult Education Conference, Hawaiian Council on Language and Education, Honolulu, HI, August, 1997. "Freire Tales," Plenary panel, MATSOL Fall Conference, Springfield, MA. Oct. 1997. "From Connecting the Dots to Reading Between the Lines: Changing Perspectives on Family Literacy," Connections through Literacy: Linking Literacy, Learners and Family Conference, Providence, RI, Jan. 1998. "The role of Native Language Literacy on the Road to ESL," Adult Native language Literacy Conference, MA Dept. Of Education, Chelsea, MA, May 1998. "Border Skirmishes: The power of literacies vs. the literacies of power," Rocky Mountain TESOL Conference, Las Cruces, NM, Oct. 1999. "Changing Perspectives on Family Literacy," Greater Washington Reading Council, Arlington, VA, April 2000. "Finding our Way between the Real and the Ideal," SABES Southeast First Annual Conference, Fall River, MA, June 2001. "Shifting Roles, Changing Rules: A Pedagogy of Not-Literacy," Portraits of Literacy: Critical Issues in Families, Communities and Schools, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., July, 2002. "Politics at Work: Problem-posing, Participatory ESL and Popular Education," Popular Education and the Immigrant Workforce: Organizing for Language Literacy and Worker Rights Conference, Univ. of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research, April, 2003. "Adult Education at the Crossroads: Community Voices and Social Change," New Mexico Coalition for Literacy and New Mexico Adult Education Association Joint Conference, Las Cruces, NM, October 2003. "Literacy Standards and the Globalization of Apartheid," Fordham University Graduate School of Education, 33^rd Annual Literacy Institute, Literacy Standards, Differences, & Deficits: What are the Relationships? New York, June 2004.