How do experiences of violence affect learning? How can educators support
those who have been through violence to learn successfully? After many years
looking at these questions as they apply to women in adult literacy programs,
The Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC), provides provincial networking and supports field development. The ONLC currently serves twenty-six (26) Native literacy programs throughout Ontario.
The Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC) engaged in phase one of a field development project in 2001/02 to find out from practitioners what could be done to support them in their jobs. Practitioners clearly identified the need for a Field Development Worker to assist them in meeting the increasing demands of their positions.
This is the fourth edition of the Dual Digital Divide series of reports. It builds on the findings from the first three studies utilizing an integrated quantitative and qualitative approach to exploring key trends.
This report updates an analysis of the "digital divide" in Canada. The study tracks updates on general access levels and sub-groups that are least likely to be connected to the Internet; provides an overview of changes in access and digital divide levels over the past three years, and; discusses emerging social policy and governance issues relating to the Internet and the digital divide.
This report represents the completion of a project designed to survey administrators, practitioners and tutors in three counties of Ontario on their priorities for field development. The overall goal of the project was to help practitioners adapt to organizational and policy change while promoting a positive work environment and ultimately more effective literacy services.
The higher one's level of literacy, the greater the likelihood that stable employment is attainable. Studies suggest that more people with disabilities function at the lowest literacy levels and that less people with disabilities are employed than the population at large.
There are four papers in this series, based on a research project, Transfer of Learning in a Parent Focussed Family Literacy Program.
This second paper fulfils one of the goals of the project, to discover the transfer of children's early literacy behaviours and parent knowledge from parent-focussed family literacy programs—Transfer of Learning: Child to Home; Child to Community; Parents at Home; Parents to Others.
