Browse by subject "Book Reviews"
1. Around the Home (2008)
QLWG Essential Life Skills - Unit 2
Series: QLWG Skills for Life Series
Collection: Learning Materials
Competency-based learning meets the needs of all learners. It is important to keep in mind, however, that all learners are different. In order to address the needs and interests of all learners, the units in this publication have been divided by Essential Life Skills and Individual Life Skills.
Essential Life Skills are important for everyone, while Individual Life Skills address the needs and interests of different learners. Once learners have completed the “Essential” units, they may choose a unit that is applicable to their interests and lifestyle.
Added: 2009-09-17
2. The bottom line, No. 12 (1999)
April 1999
Series: WWestNet's The bottom line
Authors: Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)
Collection: Research Materials
This issue contains an article dealing with an impact study carried out in Alberta to identify and address essential-skills needs in food-processing plants. The study was undertaken by the Alberta Food Processors Association (AFPA), in partnership with the Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Steering Committee (AWES)
Another article focuses on a Canada-wide research project entitled Workplace Education Development (WED): Customizing Accreditation Curricula, which studies the strategies being used by workplace educators to customize the delivery of established accreditation curricula such as the GED (General Education Diploma) to maximize learning.
A project to develop and pilot a training curriculum for construction craft labourers in Alberta is the focus of another article.
This issue also contains an item about the establishment of a workplace literacy project, Learning@Work, a joint undertaking of the Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board (SLFDB) and the National Literacy Secretariat. There is also a review of a publication on the language of documents.
Added: 2010-04-07
3. The bottom line, No. 13 (1999)
July 1999
Series: WWestNet's The bottom line
Authors: Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)
Collection: Research Materials
This issue’s lead article focuses on the award received by Winnipeg-based Bristol Aerospace for its efforts in workplace literacy. Bristol implemented its Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in 1995. To reduce the amount of time required to complete some of the training program, Bristol adopted Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), which allows employees to challenge for credit for skills they already possess, then take only the courses required to complete a certification process. The award was presented by the National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources Development Canada.
Another article describes plans by the Alberta Food Processors Association (AFPA) for a labour market study, using Statistics Canada data to profile workforce demographics and conducting interviews with industry representatives to define future trends in the industry. The project also includes an inventory of training programs in the sector and an essential-skills needs assessment.
The issue contains an item about personnel changes at SkillPlan, the British Columbia Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council. There are also reviews of publications dealing with the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) system in the food-processing industry; and with a good-practice framework for analysing workplace education programs.
Added: 2010-04-07
4. The bottom line, No. 17, June 2004 (2004)
Series: WWestNet’s The bottom line
Authors: Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)
Collection: Research Materials
The lead article in this issue looks at a vocational training project undertaken in the African country of Namibia. The project also focuses on the development of Essential Skills.
Another article describes the Return to Learn project launched in Regina, Saskatchewan, by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
Other articles include an account of a workplace Essential Skills symposium, held in Calgary in 2004, and a review of the book “Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace.”
Added: 2012-09-20
5. Bridging the Gap Between Literacy & Technology (2001)
Book Review
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This is a review of the book “Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Technology,” published by Samaritan House Training Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. The reviewer describes how the book provides literacy practitioners with tools to help incorporate technology into literacy curriculum.
The review appeared in CONNECT: Canada’s Resource Publication on Technology and Adult Literacy.
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Added: 2003-07-30
6. Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About Women - A Review (1999)
Women's Education des femmes, Spring 1999, Vol. 13, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Maureen Shaw
Collection: Research Materials
This is a review of the book "Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry By and About Women" edited by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff and published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside in 1989.
Added: 2004-03-25
7. Communicative Competence and Second Language Teaching: Lessons Learned from the Bangalore Project (1997)
Book Review, A
Authors: George Demetrion
Collection: Research Materials
A review of the book, "Second Language Pedagogy," by N.S. Prabhu
Added: 2000-08-31
8. Computer Guides for Adult Learners (2003)
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This book review from CONNECT features a series of four computer guides produced by the Halifax Immigrant Learning Centre. The four guides are titled: Corel Word Perfect 8, Microsoft Word 97, Microsoft Word 2000 and The Internet: Using Microsoft Explorer.
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Added: 2003-08-01
9. Computer Labs for Literacy Groups: A practical guide (2000)
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This book review from CONNECT features Computer Labs for Literacy Groups: A practical guide by Ken Peters. This book contains information about the basics of setting up a computer lab, such as choosing software and hardware, Internet access, security and space.
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Added: 2003-07-26
10. Easy-to-Read Guide to Computer Basics (2003)
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This book review from CONNECT features Computer Basics 2000 by Brian O'Rooney. This computer guide covers using a mouse, the Windows desktop, word processing, file management, the Internet and e-mail.
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Added: 2003-07-30
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