National Adult Literacy Database

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Authors: Célinie Russell

The purpose of this study was to discover strategies for encouraging adult francophones with poor literacy skills to articulate a need for literacy training and strategies that education centres can use to answer that need adequately. A literature review identified several obstacles to participating in adult education programs: a lack of interest in adult education, a very low value placed on education, and a belief that the expected payback from adult education does not justify the effort it requires. A literature search identified the one-stop access approach and integrated training programs as two possible ways of overcoming obstacles to participation in adult education and providing the types of training that are in greatest demand.

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• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Added: 2009-06-10

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• Éveiller le lion qui dort : Réflexions sur le recrutement en formation des adultes

Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

Authors: Nora D. Randall

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

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Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

Proceedings of a CCLOW conference October 17-19, 1980 where 450 women and men took part in a bilingual conference in Halifax to explore the connection of poverty, aging, career options and rural life with womens' learning needs.

Added: 2003-10-07

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• Point de rencontre en éducation

Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1988 - Vol. 6, No. 1

Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)

Authors: Joan McFarland

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

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