1. Themes from Rural Life (1998)
A Resource Book for Adult Literacy and ESL
By: Dan Friesen, Ellen Friesen
Collection: Learning Materials
This book is intended as a resource that can be used in a variety of flexible and creative ways to meet a wide range of needs in rural literacy programs.
The concept of a farming-based language-learning resource grew out of the authors' experience with new Canadians who immigrated to Manitoba to farm and who needed a working vocabulary to enable to interact with neighbours and the rural business community.
The writing samples in this booklet represent a variety of common genres. Written at various reading levels, using verb forms of varied complexity, these pieces can serve as models and springboards for oral and written language activities. To order a copy of this publication at a cost of $7.95 (plus shipping costs), contact:
Dan & Ellen Friesen
L.E.A.R.N.
Box 91
Roblin MB R0L 1P0
Tel: (204) 937-4646.
Added: 1998-01-01
2. The Education Connection (1980)
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Collection: Research Materials
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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3. Tales from the Kittiwake Coast (2001)
By: Robert E. Tulk
Collection: Learning Materials
This collection of short stories, musings and memories provides a delightful read for anyone who can look back at their life with a smile. Together, Robert Tulk`s colorful tales paint a picture of rural Newfoundland: its people, its values and lessons too often learned the hard way. Some of the tales and anecdotes in this book are transcribed from oral stories, as told to the author.
For a copy of this book, please contact :
Kittiwake Economic Development Corporation
P.O. Box 2222
Gander NF A1V 2N9
Tel: (709) 256-2595
Added: 2001-01-01
4. The Sea & Me Manual (1998)
By: Rhonda Tufts-Blades, Lisette Jones
Collection: Learning Materials
A large collection of stories with accompanying exercises for use with tutoring adult learners.
The need for this manual was first identified by members of the Shelburne County Learning Network, located in Shelburne County, on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Most of the Network's members work as volunteer tutors within their communities. Through their work they have come to recognize the need for learning materials that would be of interest to people who live and work in rural areas like Shelburne County. Although the resources available to tutors and their learners are multiplying each year, there still seems to be shortage of materials written with a rural tone.
The Shelburne County Learning Network hopes to eliminate this shortage by offering the following stories, poems, exercises, and activities that have as their subject matter events and concerns of interest to people who live in small coastal communities in Nova Scotia and beyond. The exercises contained in the manual focus on reading, writing, grammar, and math, and they have been adapted for Levels 1 and 2 of the Nova Scotia Academic Upgrading Curriculum Levels.
For more information on this publication, contact :
Shelburne County Learning Network
P.O. Box 209
Shelburn NS B0T 1W0
Tel. (902) 875-4272.
Added: 2003-04-07
5. Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Formative Evaluation (2003)
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This report discusses the pilot project. Provided is an overview of the evaluation methodology; recommendations for improving the project from many different sources; highlights, challenges and accomplishments of each site; cost/benefit analyses from multiple perspectives, and the social and economic landscapes of all five sites to provide the reader with a context from which to understand the challenges these communities face.
Added: 2005-05-09
6. Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Formative Evaluation - Appendices (2003)
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This document contains the appendices to Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Formative Evaluation, a report that discusses the pilot project.
Added: 2005-05-09
7. The Social & Economic Landscape for Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Burgeo (2003)
From Education to Employment
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This document is a portion of a key part of the evaluation of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) program. It seeks to describe the social and economic state of Burgeo, a small town located on the southcoast of Newfoundland, one of the communities which took part in this phase of the BTG pilot.
Added: 2005-05-09
8. The Social & Economic Landscape for Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Triton (2003)
From Education to Employment
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This document is a portion of a key part of the evaluation of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) program. It seeks to describe the social and economic state of Triton, located in central Newfoundland, a community which took part in this phase of the BTG pilot.
Added: 2005-05-09
9. The Social & Economic Landscape for Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Clarenville (2003)
From Education to Employment
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This document is a portion of a key part of the evaluation of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) program. It seeks to describe the social and economic state of Clarenville/Shoal Harbour, located on the east coast of Newfoundland, a community which took part in this phase of the BTG pilot.
Added: 2005-05-09
10. The Social & Economic Landscape for Bridging the Gap: Pilot Project Phase II - Port Hope Simpson (2003)
From Education to Employment
Series: Bridging the Gap
Collection: Research Materials
Bridging the Gap Pilot Project (Phase II) was a client–centred approach to education and employment that integrated the realities of employers in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. The project involved several economic zones, communities, private sector businesses and social and economic development agencies throughout Newfoundland and Labrador over a 12 month period. The intent was to provide long term, sustainable employment and life altering educational and developmental opportunities to 44 unemployed people who had not completed high school.
This document is a portion of a key part of the evaluation of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) program. It seeks to describe the social and economic state of Port Hope Simpson, located in southeastern Labrador, a community which took part in this phase of the BTG pilot.
Added: 2005-05-09