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41. Business Retention & Expansion Initiative Strategy (2004)
Authors: Business Retention and Expansion Leadership and Task Force Team, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Newfoundland & Labrador Division
Collection: Research Materials
The Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Initiative is an economic development tool that promotes job growth by helping communities/industries identify barriers to business growth and survival. It is a formalized, systematic, volunteer-driven process for identifying business issues and opportunities and prioritizing projects to address these needs.
This report identifies the needs and opportunities of the manufacturing sector in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Added: 2007-05-30
42. But I'm Not a Therapist: Furthering Discussion About Literacy Work with Survivors of Trauma (1997)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jenny Horsman
Collection: Research Materials
This report is a brief introduction to the findings of a research project which examines the impacts of abuse on women's literacy learning and explores approaches to literacy programming in the light of these impacts.
Added: 2003-10-02
43. Canadian Adult Basic Education and Literacy Activities (1976)
A Digest
Authors: Audrey M Thomas
Collection: Research Materials
This is the digest of a project undertaken for World Literacy of Canada from June 1975 to June 1976 to survey the Canadian literacy scene. Details of the full report of the project are given on the last page.
Added: 1990-01-01
44. Canadian Colleges & Institutes - Meeting the Needs of Aboriginal Learners (2005)
An Overview of Current Programs and Services, Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Series: Canadian Colleges & Institutes
Authors: The Association of Canadian Community Colleges
Collection: Research Materials
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Strategic Focus priorities for 2005-2006 included Aboriginal peoples’ access to post-secondary education, and enhancing student success support mechanisms in colleges and institutes which are grounded in Aboriginal values, culture and tradition.
In April and May 2005, ACCC initiated a study on Aboriginal programs and services at colleges and institutes. The study included a literature review, an on-line survey for mainstream ACCC member colleges and institutes, and interviews with representatives from Aboriginal and northern ACCC member colleges and institutes, and the Aboriginal Institutes Consortium, an Associate Member of ACCC.
This report provides an overview of Aboriginal post-secondary education trends in Canada drawn from 2001 Census data and gives an overview of the current barriers to Aboriginal learners’ participation in post-secondary education.
Added: 2006-12-14
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45. The Canadian Heritage Community Partnership and Voluntarism Collection (1997)
Collection: Research Materials
This page provides links to a collection of 15 publications, grouped under the following headings:
1. Recruiting Volunteers: "Volunteering: A Traditional Canadian Value" "Why People Volunteer" "Stronger Together" "Bridges to the Future" "Family Volunteering: The Ties That Bind" "Volunteering for Work Experience" "A Springboard to Tomorrow"
2. Fundraising: "Fundraising Ideas That Work for Grassroots Groups" "Face to Face" "How to Estimate the Economic Contribution of Volunteer Work" "Guide to Special Events Fund Raising"
3. Promotion: "Promoting Volunteerism" "Low-Cost Small-Scale Publishing" "Publicity!" "Volunteering in the Workplace"
Added: 1990-01-01
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46. Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, 20/20, Building our Vision for the Future (2006)
The Future of Manufacturing in Canada, Perspectives and Recommendations on Workforce Capabilities
Authors: Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters
Collection: Research Materials
Canadian manufacturers are restructuring their businesses in response to the challenges they face in global markets. The emergence of new market opportunities and disruptive low-cost competition, the rapid development of new technological capabilities, more demanding customers, a more demanding public, and intense bottom-line pressures are changing the nature of manufacturing worldwide.
This report looks at how the business of manufacturing is being transformed and redefined by changes in the market place and how companies react to them.
Added: 2007-05-16
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47. Catching Up with the Swedes (2001)
Probing the Canada-Sweden Literacy Gap
Authors: Constantine Kapsalis
Collection: Research Materials
Among 12 countries that participated in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), Sweden had the lowest incidence of low literacy skills, while Canada ranked around the middle with a low literacy rate double that of Sweden.
The objective of this study is to find out what factors account for the wide Canada-Sweden literacy gap, and what lessons can be learned from such a comparison that may help reduce the incidence of low literacy skills in Canada.
Added: 2001-02-02
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48. The Challenge to Create a Safer Learning Environment for Youth (2004)
Authors: Jenny Horsman
Collection: Research Materials
The author sought to learn more about how violence affects learning by interviewing young people who are currently struggling with learning, either within or outside the school system. She explored how responses to trauma support or limit learning possibilities by interviewing young people and professionals engaged in the school system and in other education for youth.
This report is comprised of the interviews, which were taped and extracts transcribed. Only repetitions, “mmmms” and “aaahs” have been removed. Spoken language has not been edited to create a written format except where interviewees preferred to edit their words. All interviews are included in italics to draw attention to these words of wisdom.
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Added: 2005-11-01
49. Cognitive Tools and the Acquisition of Literacy (2001)
Working Paper No. 5
Series: Working Papers on Literacy
Authors: Kieran Egan
Collection: Research Materials
This is the fifth paper published by The Centre for Literacy in its Working Papers on Literacy series that presents new perspectives on literacy-related topics relevant to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. The author's thesis is that our understanding of the world and our acquisition of literacy are shaped by a set of cognitive capacities or "tools" that are present in oral cultures and expand in the early stages of literacy. He suggests that many of these tools, including story, metaphor, jokes and humour, association, and more, could and should shape literacy teaching to both children and adults. He challenges the current focus on functional literacy and takes us back to pre-history and early Greek times to demonstrate the potential of drawing on the cognitive tools shared by participants in oral and literate cultures.
Added: 2002-08-06
50. Collaboration for Local Economic Development: The Role of Public Educational Institutions (1985)
Collection: Research Materials
This report is the result of the work of a project committee comprised of an extremely diverse cross-section of interests, all of whom are deeply concerned about local economic development as a part of the overall recovery of the B.C. economy. The report explains how public educational institutions have traditionally contributed to local economic development, provides case studies of innovative practices, and makes recommendations for collaborations to explore in the future.
Added: 2002-07-29
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