Integrating Equity, Addressing Barriers
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Labour Education Centre
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Published: 2009
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Centre for the Study of Education and Work
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho 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). In seeking innovative learning practices, the project focused on union education programs that address systemic barriers related to class, age, gender, sexual orientation, race and cultural background, disability, literacy, language, lack of formal education as well as barriers faced by workers in small or remote areas, by part-time workers, by shift workers. The report provides examples of the barriers identified and addressed, barriers which may exist in any and every aspect of education programs: * How learning takes place: the approach to learning, the methodology * What is the subject of learning: the content, the curriculum * Who is and is not participating: the diversity of union members, reflected in recruitment and facilitation Where the programs are conducted: at the workplace, the union hall, the community, in workers' homes * When programs are scheduled: on work time, on workers' own time while juggling shifts, more than one job, personal responsibilities * Why unions initiate programs: the purpose, how unions shape and define their programs, program planning and design Table of contents: Sketches Literacy, High School * Canadian Labour Congress: Workplace Literacy Project * Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec: Basic Skills Initiative * Nova Scotia Federation of Labour: Lighting the Way with Workplace Education * Canadian Union of Public Employees: Literacy Program Canadian Auto Workers: BEST Program * United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 Training Centre: Mature Student Diploma Program Workplace Programs * Canadian Auto Workers: Workplace Training Program * United Steel Workers: Anti-Harassment Workplace Training Program * Ontario Public Service Employees Union: Systemic and Anti-Racism Organizational Change Program * United Steel Workers Locals 480 and 9705 / Teck Cominco: Learning Centre * Fonds de solidarité de la FTQ: Foundation for Economic Education, Workplace Education Initiative Apprenticeship, Pre-Apprenticeship, Work Skills Training * Canadian Union of Postal Workers: Apprenticeship Training Program for Postal Workers * Canadian Auto Workers: Women and Technology Program * Northern Territories Federation of Labour: Preparing Northern Women for Careers in Trades and Technical Occupations in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut: A Model for Program Development and Delivery * United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1977 Training Centre: Work Skills Program * Carpenters' Local 27: CHOICE Pre-Apprenticeship Program Central Ontario Building Trades: Youth Access to Apprenticeship * International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 353: Canadian Experience Course Labour Education * Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec: Collège FTQ-Fonds * Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec: Worker-Educator Program: Training Trainers * CLC Ontario Region: Equality Initiative * British Columbia Federation of Labour Organizing * Institute: Lead Organizer Training Program * Various: Solidarity and Pride * United Food and Commercial Workers Canada: Youth Internship Program * Saskatchewan Federation of Labour: Solidarity Works Saskatchewan Federation of Labour: Prairie School for Union Women * Canadian Auto Workers: Paid Education Leave Program Canadian Auto Workers / McMaster University: Labour Studies Certificate Program * Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union: Mentorship Program * Public Service Alliance of Canada: Leadership Program Canadian Labour Congress, Women's and Human Rights Department: "The Wall"--Starting With Women's Lives: Changing Today's Economy Integrated Initiatives * United Food and Commercial Workers Canada: UFCW Canada Training Centres * UFCW Locals 175 and 633 Training Centre: Internet Distance Education Program * Toronto and York Region Labour Council: Labour Education Centre: Implementing a Labour Education Framework * UNITE HERE Local 75: A Training Strategy for Hospitality Workers in UNITE HERE Additional References.
Author: Sue Ledwith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0415884853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political organizational forms, especially trade unions, but also including business and management approaches, leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy, and the third sector. This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences of union leaders and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and transforming the inertia of traditionalism.
Author: S. Mojab
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-09-14
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0230370373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adult education and feminist theory to examine the theories, and practices of adult education from a Marxist-Feminist perspective.
Author: Arlo Kempf
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-05-30
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1402099444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant. The book brings together relevant examples of anti-colonial discourse and struggle from across the US and Canada, providing unique perspectives on resistance, activism, scholarship and pedagogy. Anti-colonialism is an evolving framework to which this book hopes to make a unique contribution, with the range, depth and analytical approach of the chapters it contains. The emphasis on anti-colonial resistance here is significant, as it consistently reveals the personal commitment required for the undoing of domination, as well as the ways in which people can collectively pursue radical politics in their aim of bringing about social justice. The book examines a multitude of actions which could be termed anti-colonial, from student walkouts along the US/Mexico border, to interrogations of the relationship between indigenous and anti-racist struggles in North America, to analyses of the implications of anti-colonialism for community unionism as well as disability rights struggles. Chapters also look at the movement for Africentric schools in Toronto, provide an annotated and comparative look at the myriad struggles for and by the Fourth World and Fourth World nations, and analyze the creation of an anti-colonial classroom in a Montreal university. They also explore the colonial underpinnings of multicultural education in the US. With contributions from leading thinkers such as Henry Giroux, Ward Churchill, and Peter McLaren, as well as fresh perspectives from junior academics, this book provides a diverse and varied survey of anti-colonialism in the US and Canada. It will be a thought-provoking read for those working in a wide variety of disciplines, from Sociology to Politics. In daring and incisive ways, Arlo Kempf's collection further positions anti-colonialism as the necessary educational project for the colonizer and colonized within us all; it reflectively re-sets the radical education agenda, with telling historical and current instances that are used by the book's authors to move constructively forward in critical ways. John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA
Author: Howard S. Adelman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1510701028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many children, schools are the main or only providers of mental health services. In this visionary and comprehensive book, two nationally known experts describe a new approach to school-based mental health—one that better serves students, maximizes resources, and promotes academic performance. The authors describe how educators can effectively coordinate internal and external resources to support a healthy school environment and help at-risk students overcome barriers to learning. School leaders, psychologists, counselors, and policy makers will find essential guidance, including: • An overview of the history and current state of school mental health programs, discussing major issues confronting the field • Strategies for effective school-based initiatives, including addressing behavior issues, introducing classroom-based activities, and coordinating with community resources • A call to action for higher-quality mental health programming across public schools—including how collaboration, research, and advocacy can make a difference Gain the knowledge you need to develop or improve your school's mental health program to better serve both the academic and mental health needs of your students!
Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9241563702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.