Browse by keyword "Women's education"
1. Adult Basic Education for Women: A Model for Policy Development (1979)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Dorothy Mackeracher
Collection: Research Materials
A group of C.C.L.O.W. members agreed to work together to learn about the process of developing policy, and our collective efforts produced this report. We feel that this report is of interest to all those concerned with learning opportunities for women.
The report includes: A summary listing of the ten issues we discussed, each relating to the main topic of the undereducated woman, and of the policy recommendations which arise from each issue; an outline of the process we used to guide our activities in developing the policies.
Added: 2003-10-02
2. The Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) in the United States (2000)
Moving From the Margins to the Mainstream of Education
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
Describes several ways in which increased literacy in adults can impact positively at work, at home, and in the community, including improvement in children's schooling and health. Argues that the adult education and literacy system in the U. S. should no longer be marginalized.
Added: 2000-01-01
3. Apprenticeship Training Models for "Women's Work": The Norwegian Experience (1993)
Women's Education Des Femmes, Spring, Vol. 10, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Karl Dehli
Collection: Research Materials
This article discusses training and education for women, and how women can obtain qualifications for access to non-traditional, professional or managerial occupations. The focus of the article is on apprenticeship training models used by the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees, in an attempt at improving the working conditions, wages and opportunities for women at the lowest levels of public sector employment in Norway.
The article is presented in English and includes a summary written in French.
Added: 1993-01-01
4. As An Educator, What Can I Do? (1992)
Women's Education des Femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Collection: Research Materials
This article offers strategies to educators who are working with students from violent homes and abused women.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
5. At Odds with Science? (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1991 • vol. 9 no.2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Georgina Feldberg
Collection: Research Materials
This article discusses women's representation in medicine, mathematics, science, engineering and the technologic trades and the perception by some that scientific work is not women's work.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
6. B.C. Provincial Restraint Policy and its Effects on Women and Education (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, Dec. 1983 - vol.2 no. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan Witter
Collection: Research Materials
This article, written in 1983, concerns the B.C. Provincial Restraint Policy of the time and discusses how it affects not only education, but health and social services, both interlocking elements in the provision of education to B.C. women.
Added: 2004-02-18
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7. The Back-to-School Survival Guide for Women (1993)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nora D. Randall
Collection: Research Materials
This is a handbook for women interested in returning to school.
Adult educators, counselors, and researchers know that one of the biggest struggles facing women who are thinking of going back to school or getting further training is to find information about programs and support services. Several CCLOW BC members thought that a handbook would be very useful for women of British Columbia.
We hope that this handbook is useful to a wide variety of women who are in many different situations.
Added: 2003-10-02
8. Best Thing That Ever Happened: Choosing Engineering, The (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 • vol.9 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Kim Mikkelsen
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, a woman discusses her choice of the pre-dominantly male profession of engineering as her career.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
9. Beyond the "Culturally Sensitive": Violence Prevention by Education Wife Assault (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1992-93 • vol.10 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Nupur Georgia
Collection: Research Materials
This article is about “Education Wife Assault”, a Canadian organization founded in 1978 with a mission to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children.
The article is written in English with a summary provided in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
10. Breaking Through the Centrefolds: Pre-Trades Training For Women (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, Sept. 1983 Vol.2 No.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Gail Dewores
Collection: Research Materials
This article explains the Pre-Trades Training for Women program, a course which was designed for women who were serious about a career in the trades, offered in cooperation with the Saskatchewan Technical Institute.
Added: 2004-03-25
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