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Direct linkHanson, Cindy L. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2014
For almost two decades, the Prairie School for Union Women (PSUW) has operated in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its use of feminist popular education, adult learning principles in facilitation, and mentoring and support for activist practices make it unique from other labour schools in many respects. This paper focuses on a community-based participatory…
Descriptors: Feminism, Adult Learning, Action Research, Participatory Research
Ng, Winnie – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to report on the author's recent research examining the meaning and practices of educating for solidarity, specifically from anti-racism and decolonizing perspective. The research is part of the critical exploration on new educational approaches on solidarity building among workers and trade union members in the broader…
Descriptors: Action Research, Unions, Autobiographies, Working Class
Download full textDowdell, Graham – 1994
A project explored and addressed the communication barriers to union participation of stewards and members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). A questionnaire was developed and distributed to over 300 ACTWU members; 153 responded. Other commitments and communication skills were identified as key barriers to greater…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Gereluk, Winston; Briton, Derek; Spencer, Bruce – 1999
The questions of what and how working people learn about labor organization and activity in Canada were explored through a review of available literature and face-to-face interviews with more than 30 education officers and union leaders. Unions continue to be the principal source of labor education. Of the many courses and educational experiences…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
PDF pending restorationCommunications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 2001
The Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada assessed literacy learning needs. In focus group discussions, members were asked their perception of such needs in the face of changes in the workplace and society; local union officers (LUOs) were asked how they saw the role of unions in supporting members' literacy learning; employers…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Change
Delp, Linda, Ed.; Outman-Kramer, Miranda, Ed.; Schurman, Susan J., Ed.; Wong, Kent, Ed. – 2002
These 28 essays recount popular education's history and its multiple uses in the labor movement today: to organize the unorganized, to develop new leaders and activists, and to strengthen labor and community alliances. They explore its other facets: theater and culture, economics education, workplace safety and health, and classroom use and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement
Robertson, David; Wareham, Jeff – 1987
Today the auto industry is going through the most radical restructuring it has experienced since its birth. Included in this upheaval is a dramatic reorganization of the workplace, and technology has been both a catalyst and a central part of such change. The issues involved touch every facet of workplace life: job classifications and demarcation…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
