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Livingstone, D. W. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1999
A survey of 1,562 Canadian adults found that most are spending more time in learning, especially informal learning through employment, community service, and household work. Findings should be used to shape education policy and practice. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Informal Education, National Surveys
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Hicks, Elizabeth; Bagg, Robert; Doyle, Wendy; Young, Jeffrey D. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: This paper seeks to examine workplace learning strategies, learning facilitators and learning barriers of public accountants in Canada across three professional levels--trainees, managers, and partners. Design/methodology/approach: Volunteer participants from public accounting firms in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick completed a demographic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Informal Education, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
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Maitra, Srabani; Shan, Hongxia – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose--The paper seeks to explore workers' learning in relation to the racialized and gendered organization of contingent work. Design/methodology/approach--This paper is informed by Marxist theorization of labour power and learning. It draws on the interview data of 24 highly educated immigrant women from the research project "Skilled In…
Descriptors: Females, Work Environment, Immigrants, Employed Women
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2008
People learn in many different ways and in many different places. What is learned informally or experientially is often the same or similar to what may be learned in traditional formal learning environments. There are many reasons why recognizing experiential learning is viable educational option, more so in today's economy than ever before. Prior…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning
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Spencer, Bruce – Adult Education Quarterly, 1995
Adult education's attention has shifted from old social movements such as unions to new social movements (NSMs) such as environmental groups. However, informal learning provided by unions is not very different from that of NSMs. In addition, labor represents the working class whereas NSMs are dominated by the middle class. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Conservation (Environment), Foreign Countries, Informal Education
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Grzybowski, Stefan; Lirenman, David; White, Marc I. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2000
Responses from 53% of 2,300 British Columbia physicians were used to create a list of 375 educationally influential physicians. These opinion leaders will serve as resources for formal and informal continuing medical education. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Information Sources, Medical Education
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Stockley, Denise; Beyer, Wanda; Hutchinson, Nancy; DeLugt, Jennifer; Chin, Peter; Versnel, Joan; Munby, Hugh – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
This paper demonstrates how case stories can be used to disseminate the findings of several case studies on negotiating accommodations in the workplace. It highlights the power of interactive technology and of the partnership between the researchers and the Canadian Council for Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW). The paper describes the process of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Training Methods, Disabilities
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Livingstone, D. W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2001
Data from Canada's New Approaches to Lifelong Learning Study confirm the pervasiveness of unpaid work and informal learning. Most employed persons engage in a variety of work-related informal learning activities. However, underemployment in terms of use of acquired skills is widespread. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
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Conrad, Dianne L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2008
The study that informs this article investigated how online learners' participation in and perception of their sense of learning community contributed to or affected their relationship to their workplace environment and their workplace colleagues. The findings support contentions that, in the workplace, the work itself constitutes the most…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Work Environment, Peer Relationship, Employee Attitudes
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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative career pathways and informally acquired skills and knowledge, as well as the operation of gender in learning and work, are acknowledged by employers, colleagues…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Females, Information Technology, Education Work Relationship
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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna; Zhu, Hong; Liptrot, Jen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
Information technology (IT) has been characterized as central to globalization and nation-states' competitive edge in the global economy. A highly masculinized field, IT is paradoxically characterized as gender-neutral, a field which expands opportunities for women's career and income development. For these reasons, feminist researchers regard it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Females, Gender Issues
Smaller, Harry; Hart, Doug; Clark, Rosemary; Livingstone, David – 2001
Following up on an earlier national survey study of Canadian teachers' formal and informal learning, this study had 13 Ontario secondary teachers keep detailed logs of their day and evening activities, along with notations about what they may have learned as a result of engaging in each activity, for 7 consecutive days in late 1999, and again in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers
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Livingstone, David W. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2001
In a Canadian survey of informal learning (n=1,562) and a follow-up (n=328), unpaid work, informal learning, and job-related learning were extensive. Despite considerable underemployment, respondents still pursued learning that prepared them for work. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
Sullenger, Karen – Education Canada, 2006
The culture of science is more than science-as knowledge. It is even more than science-as-method. It includes public awareness of the impact of science-technology and mathematics on the economic and social well-being of citizens and their opportunity and readiness to enter into civic discussions of scientific issues. The culture of science in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Science and Society
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Sawchuk, Peter H. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2003
A study's data sources were transcripts of online workshops held by the Canadian Labour Congress, an online survey and interviews with participants, and interaction analysis. Informal learning, particularly through unplanned online discussions, was critical to workshops' success. External resources played a role. Tacit dimensions of communication…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Labor Education
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