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1. Adult Basic Education: Strategies to Increase Returns on Investment (ROI) (1999)
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Drawing upon a variety of studies, the author argues that adult literacy program can increase their ROI by developing 'programs that maximize the intergenerational transfer of educational benefits from parents to children, and functional-context education programs [that] integrate basic skills instruction with job and parenting skills training'.
Added: 1999-07-01
2. The Adult Education and Literacy System (AELS) in the United States (2000)
Moving From the Margins to the Mainstream of Education
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Describes several ways in which increased literacy in adults can impact positively at work, at home, and in the community, including improvement in children's schooling and health. Argues that the adult education and literacy system in the U. S. should no longer be marginalized.
Added: 2000-01-01
3. Apprenticeship Training Models for "Women's Work": The Norwegian Experience (1993)
Women's Education Des Femmes, Spring, Vol. 10, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Karl Dehli
This article discusses training and education for women, and how women can obtain qualifications for access to non-traditional, professional or managerial occupations. The focus of the article is on apprenticeship training models used by the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees, in an attempt at improving the working conditions, wages and opportunities for women at the lowest levels of public sector employment in Norway.
The article is presented in English and includes a summary written in French.
Added: 1993-01-01
4. At Odds with Science? (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Fall 1991 • vol. 9 no.2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Georgina Feldberg
This article discusses women's representation in medicine, mathematics, science, engineering and the technologic trades and the perception by some that scientific work is not women's work.
The article is written in English and is accompanied by a summary written in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
5. B.C. Provincial Restraint Policy and its Effects on Women and Education (1983)
Women's Education des femmes, Dec. 1983 - vol.2 no. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan Witter
This article, written in 1983, concerns the B.C. Provincial Restraint Policy of the time and discusses how it affects not only education, but health and social services, both interlocking elements in the provision of education to B.C. women.
Added: 2004-02-18
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6. The Back-to-School Survival Guide for Women (1993)
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
7. Beach Story (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter - vol. 8 3/4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Debra Randler
In this short article, the author tells of an incident where she was violently attacked and how she fought back and subdued her attacker.
The article was written in English with a brief summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-19
8. Best Thing That Ever Happened: Choosing Engineering, The (1991)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1991 • vol.9 no.1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Kim Mikkelsen
In this article, a woman discusses her choice of the pre-dominantly male profession of engineering as her career.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
9. Between Silence and Silence (1992)
Women's Education des femmes, Summer 1992 • vol.9 no.4
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Sharon Ferguson-Hood
This article is written by the mother of three children, single after leaving a twenty year marriage. In this article, she shares memories of abuse and neglect, from childhood to adult, and the event that helped her to finally break free from the cycle of abuse.
The author eventually entered university as a mature student, graduated with a B.A. in English and, at the time the article was published, was working on a Master of Divinity with the hopes of being ordained as a minister in the United Church.
The article is written in English with a summary in French.
Added: 2004-02-11
10. Breaking the Cycle of Violence (2003)
Resources for Literacy Workers
Authors: Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
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
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