News and Events
The New Brunswick Labour History Project invites applications for graduate fellowships at the University of New Brunswick and the Université de Moncton in the history of labour in 20th century New Brunswick.
- Nov 21 2006 - 9:30amNov 21 2007 - 9:30am
The Wellesley Institute, a leader and a catalyst for enhancing the wellness and health of the people of southeast Toronto and other urban communities, offers community-based research (CBR) workshops taught by some of Canada's leading experts in CBR.
- 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.
- Sep 19 2007 - 5:30pmDec 20 2007 - 5:30pm
A new course will be offered this fall at OISE/UT (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto) on "Learning to address conflict in workplaces" (SES2999H). It will run on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 8:30, starting September 19, 2007.
The course will be led by D'Arcy Martin, coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work . D'Arcy is an adult educator and social activist who has worked primarily as a labour educator for the past 30 years.
For more information on this course, visit the Sociology & Equity Studies in Education Dept. of OISE/UT.
Compared to students from lower-income families, youth from well-to-do families generally perform better on standardized reading, mathematics and science tests; generally report higher marks; are far more likely to live with two birth parents and far less likely to live with only one parent; are more likely to have university-educated parents; are more likely to have parents who expect them to complete a university degree; and a larger proportion of their friends plan on furthering their education following high school. Moreover, students from well-to-do families are more likely to attend high schools that have a high propensity to produce university-bound students after accounting for student characteristics. Youth from higher-income families are also less likely to report financial reasons for not attending university.
- 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workers have been denied tens of millions of dollars in wages over the past five years because of the province's outdated and unenforced labour laws.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?
While opportunities to reflect on our practices with other educators have been rare enough, there have been even fewer chances to collectively nurture the development of new work in a laboratory environment. CSEW organized the day-long Design Clinic to address this need.
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
