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41. Challenging Literacy Prejudices Through Theatre [Video - 3:23] (2008)
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Series: Adult Learning Video Series
Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)
Collection: Learning Materials
This video, part of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), focuses on a Montreal literacy group that uses theatre both to help people with low literacy skills express themselves and to raise awareness of the barriers and prejudices they face.
The video features the program facilitator and one of the participants, a middle-aged man who suffers from schizophrenia and cannot read and write, but who has a great talent for improvisation. In a subway station, they perform a skit that shows how someone with low literacy skills does not receive the same level of service as other customers.
The video, about three minutes in length, is in French with English subtitles.
Added: 2011-05-20
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42. A Child Becomes a Reader (2003)
Birth Through Preschool
Authors: Bonnie B. Armbruster, Fran Lehr, Jean Osborn
Collection: Learning Materials
A resource for mothers, fathers and grandparents that provides ideas and encouragement for playing, talking, and reading with babies, toddlers and preschoolers that will help them become good readers and writers later in life.
Added: 2006-08-17
43. Child Rearing Manual (2010)
Authors: Meeka Arnakaq
Collection: Learning Materials
The purpose of this manual is to teach Inuit families about traditional Inuit child-rearing practices and show how these methods can be used today.
The author is an Inuk healer and elder from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, and the text has been directly translated into English from her traditional teaching, handwritten in Inuktitut syllables. The content and sentence structure have been minimally edited in order to maintain the integrity of the author’s work and oral traditional knowledge.
The manual includes sections on how best to engage the interest of young children; the importance of the extended family; and the roles of mothers and fathers in the family.
For more information on these resources, please visit http://www.lulu.com.
Added: 2011-07-12
44. Conferences: Who's Organizing Whom? (1986)
Series: Papers That Moved Us Forward
Authors: Tannis Atkinson, Arthur Bull
Collection: Research Materials
This article discusses how conferences are traditionally structured, and provides examples of how participants can become disappointed based on the conference agenda. Finally, it proposes to reverse the traditional approach of using the conference to establish a network.
Added: 1990-01-01
45. Connecting the Dots... (2007)
Linking Training Investment to Business Outcomes and the Economy
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), Allan Bailey
Collection: Research Materials
Canada’s preparedness to compete in the increasingly competitive, knowledge-based, global marketplace appears to be in jeopardy because of a lack of awareness that investing in the human capacity of Canada’s workforce is paramount to success. This paper reviews some of the key issues relating to Canada’s economic performance and explores critical linkages between weak national productivity growth, business performance and underinvestment in training and skills development.
In their reflections, the authors consider the following questions: What is the real benefit to Canada’s national economy from training employees? What is the payoff to businesses for investing in training? What is the evidence that training improves the bottom line? Are there any credible and easy-to-use strategies organizations can adopt to evaluate business returns and performance improvements from training?
Added: 2008-06-19
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46. Dancing in the Dark (2003)
How do Adults with Little Formal Education Learn? How do Literacy Practitioners do Collaborative Research?
Authors: Marina Niks, Dee McRae, Kate Nonesuch, Paula Davies, Darcy Allen
Collection: Research Materials
This is a report of a research project intended to answer two questions, 1) How do adults with little formal education learn?, and; 2) How do literacy practitioners do collaborative research? To both, there is a set of intricate steps that involve others: dancing. In both, there is a lack of formal training, education or certification to permit the dancers to do what they are doing: dark…thus, the title, “Dancing in the Dark”.
Added: 2003-12-17
47. Dealing with Downsizing (2009)
Authors: The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC)
Collection: Learning Materials
In this document, The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC) offers practical tips to help businesses minimize the impact of tough economic times on their organizations.
The suggestions are divided into three categories: holding on to the employees the business needs; avoiding layoffs altogether; and, as a last resort, handling layoffs in the best manner possible.
The authors encourage employers to increase communication; involve workers in decision-making; boost morale by investing in training; and investigate government programs that may help avoid permanent layoffs.
If layoffs are inevitable, the authors encourage employers to plan them carefully; understand the relevant law; and treat people with dignity and respect.
TASC is the coordinating body for more than 35 sector councils and similar organizations throughout Canada.
Added: 2012-10-31
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48. Decade of Promise (1986)
An Assessment of Canadian Women's Status in Education, Training and Employment, 1976 – 1985
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Avebury Research & Consulting Limited
Collection: Research Materials
This research study serves to determine, from a statistical and analytical perspective, the impact of the United Nations Decade for Women (1976-1985) on women in Canada; whether Canadian women made any progress in three areas: Education, Training and Employment.
Added: 2003-10-07
49. Dendìwò ke – Moosehide tanning process [Video – 21:05] (2011)
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Authors: ArtLess Media
Collection: Learning Materials
In 1998, BHP Billiton Canada opened the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada’s first surface and underground diamond mine. The company has held a series of workshops designed to help its multinational workforce learn about local Aboriginal culture, including the importance of the oral tradition in that culture.
This video features a moccasin-making workshop led by members of the Akaitcho Dene, who live north, east, and south of Great Slave Lake.
The video begins by showing the complicated process of tanning moosehide so it can be used to make moccasins, vests, and other items. The narrator explains that moosehide has clothed the Dene people for thousands of years.
An Akaitcho woman shows how she adds beaded embroidery to moosehide, starting with the sketching of a pattern.
The video ends with the workshop itself, where each participant sews a pair of moccasins.
Added: 2013-03-06
50. Developing a Framework for Research in Practice in Adult Literacy in Canada (2004)
Authors: Tannis Atkinson, Sandy Middleton, Marina Niks
Collection: Research Materials
Research in practice promotes improvements in practice, informs policy, and contributes to learner success in the adult literacy field. Research in practice in adult literacy has been gaining strength and visibility; however, there is an unevenness of support and capacity across the country. There is a need for a strategic framework that will address this disparity and guide future practice and policy.
The intent of this project is to: conduct an inventory of research in practice in adult literacy in English-speaking Canada; make comprehensive recommendations for the further growth and development of research in practice based on the results of the inventory, and; create opportunities for practitioners across the country to be part of the development of the framework.
Added: 2004-11-17
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