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1. Education for Homeless Adults: Strategies for Implementation (1995)
Collection: Research Materials
This is a multi-volume resource addressing the specific needs and challenges of providing education to homeless people. The guides feature recruitment and retention tips, resources, family literacy approaches, and over 70 sample lessons with corresponding handouts, making it useful to educators of other disadvantaged populations as well.
Added: 2000-06-29
2. Family Volunteering: The Ties That Bind (1995)
An Introduction to Preparing Your Agency for Family Volunteers
Authors: Kristen Porrit
Collection: Research Materials
Volunteer Centres and Bureaux across Canada recruit and refer volunteers to a wide range of human service organizations in their communities. For the United Nations International Year of the Family in 1994, the Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area decided to highlight the potential of families volunteering together. The Voluntary Action Program of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage regularly researches and reports on innovations in the recruitment of volunteers, and was happy to publish this report.
The report is intended to guide agencies through the process of involving family groups in programs and projects. We hope agencies that already use this excellent source of volunteers will also find useful suggestions to support their programs, and we encourage them to spread the word about family volunteering.
Organizations that have used family volunteers in their programs cannot say enough good things about what families bring to the agencies they work with and the people they support.
Added: 1995-01-01
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3. From Incarceration to Productive Lifestyle (1995)
Making the Transition: An Instructional Guide for Incarcerated Youth Education
Collection: Research Materials
Making the Transition: An Instructional Guide for Incarcerated Youth Education provides information about incarcerated youth, the transition program in New York State, legal rights, inmate needs, and program staff needs. A series of sample lessons, many of which have been provided by corrections educators, is also included within the instructional guide.
Added: 1995-01-01
4. Fundraising Ideas That Work for Grassroots Groups (1995)
Authors: Ken Wyman
Collection: Research Materials
This is an updated, expanded and largely revised version of A Guidebook to Fundraising for Disabled Persons' Groups. It provides direction and suggests options for fundraising for organizations to adapt to their own situations. The informality of the writing style is intended to make the manual more user-friendly. Where possible, a few selected resources are suggested for further information.
Added: 1995-01-01
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5. Workplace Education Information Sheets (1995)
Authors: Workplace Education Consortium in Saskatchewan, The
Collection: Research Materials
This article answers the following three questions:
1) What Does the Workplace Education Consortium in Saskatchewan do?
2) What information does a Literacy Task Analysis provide?
3) What information does an Organizational Needs Assessment provide?
Added: 1995-01-01
6. Workplace Literacy -- Is There a Role for Vocational Institutions? (1995)
Authors: Theodore Lewis, Mildred Griggs
Collection: Research Materials
This report describes five case studies of workplace literacy initiatives. They include
(1) a study of the role of a two-year postsecondary technical college as a partner and provider in a federally funded workplace literacy project (other partners being a union and four hospitals);
(2) a study of the role of a two-year postsecondary technical college on contract with a high-tech manufacturing company to deliver a program of basic skills for a cross section of its workers;
(3) a study of a basic skills program for hourly paid employees at a large urban bank;
(4) a study of a hotel services' English as a Second Language (ESL) program that was designed to improve the basic skills of immigrant employees; and
(5) a study of the operations of an accredited alternative vocational institution that specializes in serving the poor and the educationally and socially marginal, along with remedial and workplace literacy programming.
In all cases, the researchers spent extensive periods of time observing and collecting data via formal and informal interviews of individuals and small groups. In addition, artifacts at the sites were examined.
Added: 1995-01-01
7. Participatory Literacy Education (1995)
A Complex Phenomenon
Authors: George Demetrion
Collection: Research Materials
This essay focuses on the dilemmas of how to encourage learners to take "active control" of their adult education programs. In particular, the author discusses how he has tried to establish an environment satisfies a wide range of literacy needs, interests and aspirations at the Bob Steele Reading Centre.
Added: 2000-08-31
8. The Persisting Power and Costs of the Literacy Myth (1995)
Series: Working Papers on Literacy
Authors: Harvey J. Graff
Collection: Research Materials
This article comments on "Literacy, Economy and Society: Results of the First International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)." Topics include Themes in IALS, Problems with IALS, Contextualizing Literacy, Literacy Practices, Cultural Bias & Test Items, and more.
Added: 1995-01-01
9. Teaching students who have disABILITIES (1995)
Authors: Advisory Committee on Campus and Program Accessibility by the Disabled
Collection: Research Materials
This guidebook sums up many of the instructional strategies and accommodations for students who have disabilities which are already being implemented by professors and instructors at Brock University. The university's Special Needs Unit and the Advisory Committee on Campus and Program Accessibility by the Disabled has compiled them as a reference so that the common body of information in this area can be shared and advanced. This document is called a guidebook since it is recognized that each situation is unique, just as each person with a disability is an individual with his/her own requirements. Thus, any adaptations must be tailored to the individual and the specific situation.
Added: 1997-10-26
10. Working Papers on Literacy: Working Paper No. 1 (1995)
Series: Working Papers on Literacy
Authors: Centre for Literacy of Quebec
Collection: Research Materials
Working Papers on Literacy is an initiative of the Centre for Literacy of Quebec. Through this occasional series of monographs, the Centre hopes to broaden perspectives and stimulate debate on literacy-related issues.
Paper No. 1 is a collection and reproduces articles on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) by Harvey J. Graff, Brian V. Street and Stan Jones, which originally appeared in Volume 12 of the Centre's newsletter, Literacy Across the Curriculum.
Added: 1997-11-06
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