ESOL Learners 'Breaking The Barriers' Report
Barriers To Social Inclusion For Literacy And ESOL Learners
Introduction: My treatise is written with a solution-problem dynamic. I will briefly discuss how the government set out to provide what it saw as the solution to a shocking social problem, and then I will comment on some of what has been said about the barriers many immigrants have to overcome in order to feel socially included, to empower themselves and achieve good integration, and what part ESOL has to play in that.
The ‘Breaking the Barriers’ report (2000), in response to the ‘Moser’ report (1999) sought to reconstruct the then ‘Adult Basic Skills’ initiative as ‘Skills for Life’, which would incorporate ESOL in 2001. ‘Skills For Life’ was introduced as a response to the ‘Moser’ …show more content…
The central theme being ‘life’, the word in common with both of these initiatives. A route to a better quality of life for disadvantaged people is what is being offered. Adult education can provide the stepping stones out of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. According to Sabates (2008), participating in adult learning can help to reduce poverty in a substantial way, through enhancing employment prospects, improving the health levels of poorer people and allowing them to acquire the tools needed to take control of their own …show more content…
These barriers include lack of confidence and low self-esteem (Pattar, 2009).
It is widely stated that women from Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Somali communities are further disadvantaged by gender oppression, lack of independence and even family hostility to independence and other gender related cultural factors can restrict opportunities to take up learning.
Female refugees and asylum seekers, in particular lone parents, can be very isolated, have restricted access to health and other support services, and are more vulnerable to violence and abuse (Ward, NIACE,
Introduction: My treatise is written with a solution-problem dynamic. I will briefly discuss how the government set out to provide what it saw as the solution to a shocking social problem, and then I will comment on some of what has been said about the barriers many immigrants have to overcome in order to feel socially included, to empower themselves and achieve good integration, and what part ESOL has to play in that.
The ‘Breaking the Barriers’ report (2000), in response to the ‘Moser’ report (1999) sought to reconstruct the then ‘Adult Basic Skills’ initiative as ‘Skills for Life’, which would incorporate ESOL in 2001. ‘Skills For Life’ was introduced as a response to the ‘Moser’ …show more content…
The central theme being ‘life’, the word in common with both of these initiatives. A route to a better quality of life for disadvantaged people is what is being offered. Adult education can provide the stepping stones out of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. According to Sabates (2008), participating in adult learning can help to reduce poverty in a substantial way, through enhancing employment prospects, improving the health levels of poorer people and allowing them to acquire the tools needed to take control of their own …show more content…
These barriers include lack of confidence and low self-esteem (Pattar, 2009).
It is widely stated that women from Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Somali communities are further disadvantaged by gender oppression, lack of independence and even family hostility to independence and other gender related cultural factors can restrict opportunities to take up learning.
Female refugees and asylum seekers, in particular lone parents, can be very isolated, have restricted access to health and other support services, and are more vulnerable to violence and abuse (Ward, NIACE,