• SES2999H Learning in work and community sites: an exploration of community unionism (Summer Session 1 - May to June)

• SES2999H: Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Human Capital Learning: Reclaiming Education and the Workplace for Democratic Citizenship (Summer Session 2 – July to August)

Full details at: http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/lectures.php

Community Friends for Peace and Understanding with Six Nations, a grass-roots coalition of community and labour activists is hosting this meeting in order to create a place for trade union activists in southern Ontario to come together to build union support for the Six Nations reclamation.

Discussions on:

• The relation between Disability Studies with other studies of social difference, diversity, and equity.

• Can Disability Studies venture where no one has gone before?

• Your thoughts on the meaning and place of Disability Studies

12th floor Boardroom (12-199), OISE/UT

252 Bloor St. West (St. George subway)

The three panelists leading this discussion are Alice Corbiere, Rosalind Johnston and Jose Reyes of the Community Economic and Social Development (CESD) programme at Algoma University College.

The panel will suggest that the current definition of the social economy may not be sufficiently inclusive to reflect the holistic worldview of indigenous peoples nor reflect the reality of First Nations governance.

Skills, Jobs and Immigrants: Who's Working, What's Working - A Conference

by Wendy Terry, Learning Curves (Workers' Educational Association)

Many Learning Curves' readers are highly skilled newcomers, so the Skills, Jobs and Immigrants conference [sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Education and Work] was of direct interest to them, especially those who have had difficulty getting into the labour market. There are a few innovative programs to help them, but they often feel confused by the variety of programs and frustrated by the inability to get into one of them.

Speaker: Blaine Donais

Tuesday, February 27, 12-2 pm
OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St. West
(St. George subway station, Bedford exit)
2nd floor, room 2-211

The past forty years have produced two dominant models in workplace conflict management theory - the Justice Model used primarily by the labour movement and responses to decreasing union density and the Efficiency Model which seeks to produce low cost, simple and efficient conflict management systems. This seminar proposes a theory that unifies approaches taken to the analysis of workplace conflict management systems. This Fairness Theory of Workplace Conflict Management is based upon the liberal democratic notion that all workplace participants have a right to fairness in the workplace. And fairness is defined as "equality of concern and respect."

The United Association for Labor Education invites you and your colleagues to our 2007 Annual Meeting - "THE NEW FACES OF THE AMERICAN WORKER: What Implications for Organized Labor?"

Drop in to the Grand Opening of the OPSECAAT / OPSEU Toronto Campaign offices:

Jan. 30 from 4 - 7 p.m. at 31 Wellesley St. East (416-928-2489)
Feb. 6 from 4 - 7 p.m. at 100 Lesmill Rd. (416-448-7433)

Research has helped us to understand the impacts of violence on learning and to identify ways to address them. How can we move this research more widely into literacy practice? This question provided a starting point for eleven researchers in practice from across Canada. In this workshop, six of the researchers will describe their research projects and share what they have learned to date.

As a participant in this workshop, you will be invited to join the researchers to tease out meanings from the "data" they have collected about their research topics. In this way, you will contribute to the research learnings and to the process of doing research in practice. This workshop will be of interest to practitioners who are curious about research in practice and who want to extend their understandings about addressing impacts of violence on learning.