The Center for Literacy
About Us
The Centre for Literacy is a centre of expertise that supports best practices and informed policy development in literacy and essential skills by creating bridges between research, policy and practice. We do this through learning events (including institutes and workshops), action research projects and publications, and also through our library services and website.
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Giving books and information to families on Family Literacy Day 2012 [full story]
- A reading promotion project at the Montreal Children's Hospital
- Writers in the Community and other action-research projects
What's New
Summer Institute 2012, Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills: Shaping a New Learning Culture
Last updated: May 7, 2012
The 2012 Institute will focus on questions about the roles of context and culture as factors in program outcomes. Registration is limited to 100. For more information, read the brochure.
Fall Institute 2012: Social Finance for Adult Basic Learning – October 14-16, 2012 – Saint John, NB
Last updated: May 8, 2012
The institute will explore a range of social finance and other innovative funding models such as those currently being proposed by governments, focusing on how these models might apply to literacy and essential skills programs in community and workplace.
Embedding literacy and essential skills in workplace learning: Breaking the solitudes
Last updated: May 8, 2012
This paper by Jay Derrick explores the concept of “embedded” workplace literacy and essential skills (WLES) provision as a sub-set of general workplace learning. It presents four models to help understand how WLES provision is connected to the context of the workplace with examples of the approaches outlined.
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Jay Derrick's webinar presentation: Embedding literacy and essential skills in workplace learning: Breaking the solitudes
Research Scan for April now online
Last updated: April 30, 2012
This scan includes brief descriptions of current research projects on topics such as workplace literacy and essential skills (WLES) and funding policy, many funded by the Office of literacy and Essential Skills (OLES). It also summarizes research articles and reports on WLES, partnerships between businesses and adult educators, family literacy and professionalization of the adult literacy field.
The Longitudinal Study of Adult Learning: Challenging Assumptions
Last updated: April 30, 2012
This research brief by Steve Reder will generate questions and discussion about factors that influence the impacts and results of adult basic education and seed new ways to think about the implications for workplace learning.
Embedding Literacy and Essential skills in Workplace Training: Changing the Conversation [Webinar]
Last updated: May 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 – 11.30 EDT, with Jay Derrick, Teacher Educator, and Researcher at Institute of Education, University of London.
