Welcome to this portal, which provides access to a range of courses, resources, research projects and public activities on learning and work. They are centred at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Here you will meet a wide range of university faculty, graduate students, labour unionists, worker educators and literacy activists. The content is being constantly updated, and the participating organizations can be accessed directly through the organization menu at the top of the right column.
The Social Economy Centre (SEC) of the University of Toronto is pleased to offer its 2007-08 workshop series. These half-day workshops (9 am to noon) can be taken individually or applied towards a Certificate (requires completion of 5 or more workshops).
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Co-operatives do not always fit well into accounting frameworks designed with others in mind. CEARC proposes to develop a draft iSORP on accounting and reporting by co-operatives, with a view to exploring its potential. This research project aims at both building a practical accounting tool for co-operatives, while also providing a means for researching, discussing and developing a co-operative accounting perspective.
The report:
• outlines the key characteristics of holistic lifelong learning for First Nations, Inuit and Métis;
• identifies data gaps and challenges that limit non-Aboriginal understanding of Aboriginal learning;
• presents three Holistic Lifelong Learning Models for First Nations, Inuit and Métis; and proposes how each model can be used to develop a national, holistic framework for measuring lifelong learning.
http://www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL/Reports/RedefiningSuccessInAboriginalLearning?Language=EN
Learning to Learn, the very first training program aimed at teaching adults with little schooling in the methods necessary to learn, was jointly achieved by the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and the Centre DÉBAT, a literacy group working in an impoverished district of Montreal. Created with the financial participation of the National Literacy Secretariat, the program was initially published in French in the autumn of 2000, then translated into English and launched in Montreal in April 2006.
http://www.centredebat.qc.ca/PressRelease.pdf
- Who faces barriers - in the workplace, in the union, in education and training? What can the union do differently once aware of these barriers? What results are achieved? Is there a broader impact within the union? These are some of the questions answered in a new report prepared by the Labour Education Centre and Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW).
- The ‘Learning and Work' clusters in the Adult Education and Sociology and Equity Studies in Education departments at OISE/UT deal with all facets of analysis related to work, learning, vocational training, labour markets, political economy, organizing and economic democracy.
- Ontario's poorest workers have been denied tens of millions of dollars in wages over the past five years because of the province's outdated and unenforced labour laws. That's the shocking finding of a report released this week by the Workers' Action Centre titled Working on the Edge, which chronicles seven years of employer abuses in the Greater Toronto Area. The violations include wages below minimum pay rates, failing to pay overtime or statutory holiday, vacation and termination pay and denying workers sick leave, unemployment insurance, health, injury and pension benefits. To read more, go to http://www.thestar.com/article/220663.
- The Pathways project was started in 2006 to identify policies and practices to enable more young Canadians to find sustained employment with decent pay, good working conditions and career potential. The event was an opportunity to review key findings, to obtain feedback on work in progress and to seek advice on future elements of the project.
- • How do we fully realize authentic partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions?
• How do we balance power and share resources among partners?
• How do we build community and campus capacity to engage each other as partners?
• How do we create healthier communities through partnerships?
• How do we translate “principles” and “best practices” into widespread, expected practice?
The Work and Lifelong Learning Resource Base (WALLRB) provides a wide range of bibliographic references and links to full-text sources of research on diverse forms of lifelong learning and diverse forms of work, with a primary focus on the relations between learning and work.
http://wall.oise.utoronto.ca/resources/WALLRB.htm
