|
This province-wide consultation on literacy and learning
in BC comprised five separate but interrelated methodologies:
Literacy Practitioners’ and Learners’
Visioning Conference…
140 learners, practitioners, administrators,
funders, and others attended Literacy BC’s Setting an Agenda for
Tomorrow: Making a Difference conference, November 30th to December 2nd,
2000 – at which they listened, dialogued, and created visions for the next
decade.
Leaders in BC Telephone Survey…
300
influential business, labour, education, and government representatives were
interviewed by telephone as to their experience and perspectives around
literacy, learning, and skills development in this province.
Province-Wide Community Consultations…
205 educators, business people, union representatives, government
representatives, community development workers, and educators from 35
communities outside the Lower Mainland were interviewed in person as to their
experiences and perspectives on literacy and learning in this province.
Supplementary Business and Labour Telephone
Survey…
An additional 100 businesspeople and union representatives
were interviewed by telephone as to their experience and perspectives around
the basic skills of the BC workforce.
Workforce Literacy Practitioners’ Telephone
Survey…
25 of BC’s workforce literacy practitioners were
interviewed by telephone (and by e-mail) as to their opinions and aspirations
around professional development and best practices for their field.
In total, over 675 people in more than 40 communities
throughout BC were engaged in this consultation, including:
-
representatives from School Districts, colleges,
alternative schools, and Community Skill Centers
-
family, adult, and workforce literacy practitioners
-
community development workers
-
industry representatives, both from business and
organized labour
-
government representatives from the BC Ministries of
Education; of Advanced Education, Training and Technology (now the Ministry of
Advanced Education); of Social Development and Economic Security (now the
Ministry of Human Resources); of Children and Families; and from Human
Resources Development Canada
-
representatives of the Industry Training and
Apprenticeship Commission and of Forest Renewal BC
-
First Nations peoples
|
