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Linda ShohetRepresenting Adult Education/Adult Literacy |
Linda Shohet is the founder and director of The Centre for Literacy of Quebec, an independent charitable organization in Montreal that houses a public resource collection on all aspects of literacy and offers seminars and conferences for teachers, tutors and workplace educators. The priority issues for The Centre in the past few years have been literacy and health, literacy and technology, and literacy and women. Since 1995 the Centre's Summer Institutes have focused on literacy and technology and they hosted the national Policy Conversation on Literacy and Technology in January 1995 on behalf of the National Literacy Secretariat.
Linda has an Honours English B.A. and a M.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal, and teaches English at Dawson College in Montreal, specializing in developmental/basic writing and in writing about science and technology. Since 1984, she has worked in the field of school-based and adult literacy, editing Literacy Across the Curriculum, a newsletter that circulates widely in North America, and presented frequently at conferences.
Linda is the former president of Literacy Partners of Quebec (LPQ), a provincial coalition of English-language literacy groups, and was the Quebec director of The Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW).
Linda was on the original Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) committee that created NALD as an International Literacy Year project in 1989, and has been involved in some capacity ever since as a member of committees and of the board.
