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81. Let Women Speak Their Diversity! An Interview with Charlotte Bunch (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1991 - Vol. 8, No. 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharon Goldberg
Collection: Research Materials
This article contains an interview with Charlotte Bunch, U.S. feminist activist and author. At time the article was written, she was employed as the Director of the Center for Global Issues and Women's Leadership at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Added: 2004-08-31
82. Let's "Pond"er the Future (2006)
Authors: Goforth Consulting
Collection: Research Materials
The College Sector Committee (CSC) is committed to providing leadership in promoting the continuous improvement of the delivery of upgrading programs to meet the needs of adult learners.
The 2006 CSC Conference, "Let’s “Pond”er the Future, was planned as an inclusive event involving program managers, faculty/classroom support staff, and administrative support staff. The goal of the conference was to meet the PD needs of all three groups. This report documents the Conference activities and makes recommendations for the future.
Added: 2006-08-25
83. Literacy and the Labour Market: Cognitive Skills and Immigrant Earnings (2008)
Series: International Adult Literacy Survey
Authors: Aneta Bonikowska, David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
Collection: Research Materials
The authors of this document have used data from the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) to analyse the role cognitive skills play in the fact that immigrants earn less than their Canadian-born counterparts.
Their analysis shows that the cognitive skills of immigrants differ from those of workers born in Canada. As well, the authors note that immigrants educated abroad have much lower skills and earnings than immigrants who received their education in Canada.
The authors note that there is no evidence that the gap in earnings is caused by employers paying equally productive immigrants less than their Canadian-born counterparts.
Added: 2010-08-06
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84. Literacy and the Labour Market: The Generation of Literacy and Its Impact on Earnings for Native Born Canadians (2007)
Authors: David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
Collection: Research Materials
The study presented here examines the link between literacy, the economy, and individual income, the premise being that an individual with greater literacy skills would be expected to have better employment opportunities and command higher earnings. The authors begin by examining the distribution of literacy skills in the Canadian economy and how they are generated, looking in particular at schooling and parental influence. Next, they discuss the nature of literacy generation in the years after individuals have left formal schooling and are in the labour market.
They conclude by examining the impact of increased literacy on individual earnings, investigating both the causal impact of literacy on earnings and the joint distribution of literacy and income. For this study, the authors use data from the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey and the Canadian component of the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey.
Added: 2008-06-26
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85. Literacy and Homelessness Project - (Excerpts from) Phase 3 Report: More Ideas (provided by St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program) (1999)
Authors: David Greig
Collection: Research Materials
This paper contains excerpts from the report of Phase Three of the Literacy and Homelessness Project, which involved developing and documenting ways to do literacy work with homeless, transient or other marginalized people.
This report is divided into two main sections: 'Practical ideas' and 'Critical issues'. The 'Practical ideas' section presents a selection of concrete ideas for doing project-based work and for documenting learnings that have been successful in literacy work with homeless and marginalized people. Most of these ideas could be adapted by programs that do any kind of literacy work and not just work with homeless people. The "Critical issues" section presents a discussion about some current critical issues concerning this work and literacy work in general, including issues about accountability and funding. A final section of this report provides a brief listing of some print and Internet resources.
Added: 1999-01-01
86. Literacy and Learning: Acknowledging Aboriginal Holistic Approaches to Learning in Relation to "Best Practices" Literacy Training Programs (2003)
Final Report
Authors: Eileen Antone, Peter Gamlin, Lois Provost-Turchetti
Collection: Research Materials
This research project was developed to engage literacy stakeholders in a research initiative relevant to Aboriginal people. The intent is to facilitate a process that will ensure that Native literacy in Ontario is perceived, acknowledged and recognized “wholistically” as distinct to Aboriginal peoples, in relation to mainstream literacy.
“Wholistic” describes the Aboriginal philosophy in which “everything is related” by virtue of shared origins and in which, by extension, the human being is considered an entire whole; that is, mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally as an individual, with one's family and extended family, one's people, and with the cosmos in sacred relationships. This is distinct from a “holistic” philosophy in which the term ‘related' is taken as meaning ‘all things are interconnected' by virtue of sharing an environment in which action leads to a type of ‘domino effect' in a secular world.
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Added: 2004-08-30
87. Literacy Encounters (1997)
Meeting the Adult Literacy Needs in English of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Isolated Regions
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Priscilla George
Collection: Learning Materials
This software review from CONNECT describes Literacy Encounters. This kit consists of a CD-ROM and five videos which provide learners with language experience in meaningful contexts such as shopping in a supermarket.
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Added: 2003-06-25
88. Literacy On-Line (1999)
Authors: Jennifer Gibson
Collection: Research Materials
The purpose of this paper is to discuss major innovations in the availability of adult literacy learning resources on the Internet. Given the increasing demand placed on limited instructors and relevant learning materials, the Internet proposes an exciting alternative or supplement to ordinary classroom activities.
Added: 2000-05-18
89. Literacy Specialists: Prior Knowledge and Experience (2003)
Series: Connecting Literacy to Community
Authors: Audrey Gardner
Collection: Research Materials
This document is part of the second phase of the “Connecting Literacy to Community” (CLC) project carried out by Bow Valley College in Alberta.
During the first phase, literacy specialists were assigned to three urban and three rural communities to help community agencies identify and minimize barriers to literacy. The role of the literacy specialist was created for the project, and the second phase of the project included research that explored the skills, competencies, prior knowledge, and experience utilized by the literacy specialists.
The research showed that prior knowledge and experience is extremely important in doing literacy specialist work. The literacy specialists brought substantial knowledge and experience to their role, including work experience, formal education, professional development, and volunteer experience.
The author notes that personal values about literacy, along with commitment to one’s community, also influence the way the literacy specialists fulfil their role.
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Added: 2004-09-14
90. Literacy, Numeracy and Labour Market Outcomes in Canada (2001)
Series: The Monograph Series
Authors: David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell
Collection: Research Materials
This study uses Canadian data from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) to investigate the relationship between labour market success and literacy skills, specifically prose literacy, document literacy and quantitative literacy or numeracy. Earnings is the most commonly used and widely accepted measure of labour market success. It has the advantage of incorporating the dimensions of both ‘price'—that is, the wage rate—and ‘quantity'—the number of hours worked per week or the number of weeks worked per year. Accordingly, this paper focusses on the relationship between literacy and annual, weekly and hourly earnings. This paper also takes into other factors that influence labour market outcomes, such as educational attainment, gender and experience.
Added: 2001-01-01
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