Education Opportunities, Alternatives and Enhancements for Maritime Communities
Parents around the world have one thing in common—a concern about how to best prepare children to succeed in the rapidly changing global environment of the modern world. To achieve this, schools must offer the greatest possible range of learning opportunities and enlighten younger generations so they can help make the world a better place. This is the challenge of New Learning.
In this article, the author discusses the growing number of aging women in Canada and the lack of educational opportunities available for this group. Aging women are still the "invisible majority" of elderly in Canada, despite their increasing numbers. Current educational opportunities for older women are almost nonexistent.
Touching The Language Electric by Carmelia McGrath is a story of the book Wayfering Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a "language awareness project", designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
A Language So Dear... by Jeanette Winsor is a story in the book Wayfering Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a "language awareness project", designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
by Marie Finlay is a story in the book Wayfering Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a "language awareness project", designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
Finding Lost Luggage by Helen Woodrow is a story in the book Wayfering Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a "language awareness project", designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
A Profile of the Quad Counties in the Strait Region
Issues, Trends, Supports and Resources: A Profile of the Quad Counties in the Strait Region, is "Phase One of the Partners & Pathways Two Project". The research
compiled in this document will provide background information for Phase 2 -- a
Girls' attitudes toward their education, as well as boys' toward girls and their prospective roles, are shaped by media, advertisement and the culture which deny women's claim to equality with men. This socialization effect is powerful, so much so that even when structural barriers are removed, females are reluctant to enter fields such as science, technology, and administration, which are identified as male domains.
Women's Education des femmes, Dec. 1983 - vol.2 no. 2
This article, written in 1983, concerns the B.C. Provincial Restraint Policy of the time and discusses how it affects not only education, but health and social services, both interlocking elements in the provision of education to B.C. women.
Women's Education des femmes, March 1984 - vol. 2 no. 3
At the Canada Tomorrow Conference held in Ottawa in 1983 under the auspices of the federal Ministry of Science and Economic Development, Heather Menzies was theme coordinator for the topic "Concerns about the Consequence of Change". The other three themes dealt with technology. This article contains an edited version of Mrs. Menzies' report to the final plenary session