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1. Black Youth Literacy: A Guide for Program Development (2003)
Authors: Toronto Adult Literacy for Action (ALFA) Centre
Collection: Research Materials
The Black Youth Literacy Project is an initiative of the Toronto ALFA Centre, a community-based program that has been delivering literacy services to adults in the northwest corner of the City of Toronto since 1985. The aim of this project is to improve the educational engagement and self-concept of Black youth who have been turned off or let down by the regular education system and have left school; experience reading and writing difficulties; are either unemployed or underemployed; and are at risk of falling short of realizing their full potential.
The primary goal of this guide is to provide organizations, agencies and individual teachers with a framework and building blocks for creating programs that will: inspire a love of learning; and equip Black youth with the awareness, access and ability to further their education in whatever way they choose.
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Added: 2005-03-10
2. Breaking the Cycle of Violence (2003)
Resources for Literacy Workers
Authors: Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
Collection: Research Materials
This book is a resource for literacy workers. One of its focus is on the challenges of people having limited literacy skills when they attempt to access counselling services. It also includes information for workers who may be working with victims of abuse and violence.
Added: 2005-11-23
3. Canada slow to overcome limits for disabled learners (2007)
Lessons in Learning - February 16, 2007
Series: Lessons in Learning
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Collection: Research Materials
Learning opportunities for Canadians with disabilities are slowly improving because of technological advances that help them to overcome limitations, and because society is increasingly willing to eliminate the barriers that restrict their activities. However, the authors of this paper argue that there is still ample room for improvement.
Studies suggest that Canadians with disabilities are not achieving the same positive learning outcomes as non-disabled Canadians, nor are they reaping the same benefits in the labour market, the authors point out.
Ensuring a fuller range of opportunities for Canadians with disabilities will require a multi-lateral approach that includes changing attitudes toward people with disabilities; providing support for parents of children facing disabling conditions; creating conditions to ensure school success; encouraging and supporting further education; and accommodating people with disabling conditions in the workplace and community.
Limitations on learning can arise directly from disabling conditions, or they can be imposed by society’s unwillingness to alleviate restrictions on the activities of people with disabilities, the authors say. In either case, removing those limitations would benefit all Canadians by ensuring that those with disabilities have richer opportunities to learn and to make contributions to society.
Added: 2013-02-18
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4. Education Behind the Veil: Women in Afghanistan (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1994 - Vol. 11, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharifa Sharif
Collection: Research Materials
This article presents a glimpse of women's situation in Afghanistan with regard to their education. What you read here are selected stories from a group of educated women whom the author interviewed from 1986 to 1988. The situation in Afghanistan has drastically changed since then and women's education, and all aspects of their social and legal lives, has taken a reverse turn.
Added: 2004-04-01
5. Educational Indignities: Claire and Cyrus Mehta (1994)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1994 - Vol. 11, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Lisa Bendall
Collection: Research Materials
Claire fought for equal education in the sixties despite discrimination because of her disabilities. As an adult, she still must face the same discrimination 30 years later, as her son, Cyrus, who also has disabilities, enters the school system.
Added: 2004-04-02
6. Employment Access for Persons with Disabilities (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Mala Naraine
Collection: Research Materials
Most recent figures from Statistics Canada reveal 52.2% of the Country's working-age disabled remains unemployed.''1 Although this figure is recent, the inequity it implies is not. Historically, persons with disabilities have been discriminated against through systemic practices and policies in employment. Employment Equity legislation has created some awareness of this inequity but an awareness that inequities exist is not sufficient to implement change.
Added: 2004-04-02
7. Equality: Some Unresolved Issues (1985)
Women's Education des femmes, Mar. 1985 - Vol. 3, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan McCrae Vander Voet
Collection: Research Materials
In 1985, Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms became law. In the three years previous to it becoming law, governments were allowed to make legislation conform to the Equality Rights section of the Charter. For the most part, governments cleaned up sexist language in legislation, and modified statutes to make them applicable to both sexes, where previously they may have been relevant to only one.
The Department of Justice Canada issued a discussion paper entitled, Equality Issues in Federal Law. This paper outlined the major issues, which the federal government identified as requiring resolution, under various categories: age, sex, race, citizenship, marital or family status, and sexual orientation.
This article, Equality: Some Unresolved Issues, provides a brief discussion of Section 15, followed by a summary of the issues raised in the discussion paper, and a brief analysis of different concepts of equality and their usefulness for women in interpreting Section 15.
Added: 2004-07-28
8. Equity Across the Curriculum (1997)
Authors: Alfred Jean-Baptiste
Collection: Research Materials
At the beginning of 1993, East End Literacy in the Toronto area initiated an anti-discrimination change process. This process involved every level of the organization : the board of directors, staff and volunteers, and the programs and servives provided to more than 150 adults each year. As a result, East End Literacy has made significant progress in identifying existing barriers and making changes accordingly throughout the organization. Such changes have included the development of anti-discrimination and employment equity policies, the introduction of anti-discrimination training for tutors and staff, and the addition of community-based requirements to the board requirement policy.
This book aims to ease the dealing with organizational change and its surrounding issues. Significant time has been devoted to examining strategies and approaches to achieving equity, and information is provided on how to plan and start an organizational change process - from identifying systemic barriers in the delivery of services, to measuring progress over the long term. The book presents an opportunity to spend time working at the relationship between tutoring content on the one hand, and community-based literacy philosophy on the other.
Added: 2000-08-02
9. The Equity Franchise (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Somer Brodribb, Sylvia Bardon, Theresa Newhouse, Jennifer Spencer
Collection: Research Materials
Some female students at the University of Victoria formed the CCC [Chilly Climate Committee], to investigate the climate of the Political Science department and give its faculty some recommendations on how to improve women's experiences in the department. This resulted in backlash and name calling both on campus and off.
The CCC received support from many individual women and women's groups, anti-sexism activists and anti-racist workers, who responded to the members' situation with outrage and recognition. However, this article was written by members of the CCC to discuss the system's processes and professional interactions which worked very hard and over a very long period against that support and to sustain harassment and keep discrimination organized.
Added: 2004-07-28
10. An Extravagant Fraudulence: The Plight of Sole Support Mothers (1986)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1986 - Vol.42, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Claire Hogenkamp
Collection: Research Materials
Sole support mothers face many barriers to employment and to education. In this article, the author discusses ways to breaking down these barriers, such as providing: improved and increased subsidized day care facilities; access to affordable housing; improved training allowances; an end to restrictive criteria for access to training allowances, and; an end to discrimination that places different cultural, racial, and economic groups in competition for slender, resources. We need to give sole-support mothers an equal opportunity in the marketplace.
Added: 2004-07-28
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