Browse by keyword "Women's education"
41. Five Views: The New Brunswick Re-entry Project (1998)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1988 - Vol. 6, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joan McFarland
Collection: Research Materials
CCLOW's New Brunswick network completed its first re-entry project in May of 1983. To be eligible at the time, a woman had to have been out of the labor force for at least three years. The successful program ran for 20 weeks, cost $75,000 and combined classes with on-the-job training. Fifteen women were trained in non-traditional jobs: security, loss-prevention, plant nursery and printing. This article presents five views of the project from some of the women involved.
Added: 2004-07-28
42. From the Straight Shore to the Labrador: Women's Studies as a Distance Education Course (1987)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1987 - Vol. 5, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Joanne Prindiville, Cathryn Boak
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the authors examine the effects of women's studies, offered through distance education, on the women who participate in the course.
Added: 2004-08-05
43. From Bride Price To Platitudes: A Cross-Cultural Look at Women in Education (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, June 1990 - Vol. 8, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Jody Hansom
Collection: Research Materials
The author's premise in this article is that education in general, and literacy in particular, are gender issues. What, exactly, is the difference between the West African practice of not paying girls' school fees, and the Canadian message to female students to limit their educational horizons? Isn't the Canadian man who refuses to parent in the evening while his wife attends classes helping to deny her access to education?
Added: 2004-08-03
44. Gaining Visibility: Older Women and Education (1990)
Women's Education des femmes, Autumn 1990 - Vol. 8, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharon Harold
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the author discusses the growing number of aging women in Canada and the lack of educational opportunities available for this group. Aging women are still the "invisible majority" of elderly in Canada, despite their increasing numbers. Current educational opportunities for older women are almost nonexistent. Older women have been socialized to have low expectations of what is available to them in the way of educational programming. And older women often have low expectations of themselves - they experience feelings of being "too old", "too dumb" or of it being "too late".
Added: 2004-07-29
45. Go For It (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 - Vol. 9, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Rachel Zimmerman
Collection: Research Materials
When this article was written, the author was a grade thirteen student in Ontario. She describes her positive experiences with science fairs in school, and her passion for science.
Added: 2004-08-13
46. The Good Mother (2006)
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Literacy Advice to Mothers in the Twentieth Century
Authors: Suzanne Smythe
Collection: Research Materials
Suzanne Smythe's theseis explores literacy advice to parents as a gendered practice of power rather than an institutional truth.
Quote from Conclusion: "This study is not concerned with the development of the “mother as teacher of literacy” as a teleological process, unfolding over time, but in the interplay of knowledge, relations of power, and social contexts that shape literacy advice discourses and the strategies and effects associated with them."
Added: 2006-10-20
47. Grab It Where You Can (1987)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1987 - Vol. 5, No. 4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Laura Jackson
Collection: Research Materials
How does a woman upgrade her education and skills when she lives in a remote northern community? When the only road winds 25 kilometers north-east to a couple of small villages on the lake? When the nearest university is several hundred kilometers away? And what happens when a woman has children at home, and no money to spare?
The author spoke to three such women of Labrador. For each one, ingenuity and imagination were part of the answer.
Added: 2004-08-05
48. Hardships, Harsh Realities and Hope (1996)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1996 - Vol. 12, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan May
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the author discusses violence against women at school, at work, and at home, the effects of violence on learning, strategies to cope with violence, and hope for the future.
Added: 2004-07-29
49. Home is Where the Learning Is (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1992 - Vol. 9, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Wendy Priesnitz
Collection: Research Materials
The author and her husband home-schooled their two children during their elementary school years. In this article, Wendy Priesnitz expresses her views on home-based education and how she feels that it has the potential to demonstrate what can happen when the barriers to the integrated progress of the individual are removed.
Added: 2004-08-27
50. Hurrah for A Hundred Years (1984)
Women's Education des femmes, August 1984 - Vol. 3, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Margaret Gillett
Collection: Research Materials
This article concerns an event that took place 100 years before this article was written. Late in the summer of 1884, Donald A. Smith offered McGill $50,000 for the higher education of women. Within a month, more than twenty women were registered at McGill.
Added: 2004-08-27
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