RESEARCH IN PRACTICE NEWS
RiPAL-BC e-bulletin http://www.nald.ca/ripal/ebulletin/feb05/1.htm
RiPAL-BC’s goal is to support and promote research in practice
in adult literacy in BC and to build a structure that will sustain it
in the years ahead. RiPAL-BC has produced its first project bulletin
which includes information about research in practice activities and
resources in BC and Canada. If you would like to be put on the RiPAL-BC
mailing list, contact ripal@literacy.bc.ca.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS
Conference Board
of Canada Awards for Excellence in Workplace Literacy
The Conference Board of Canada invites organizations to apply for
a workplace education award, or to nominate another deserving company.
The Awards
for Excellence in Workplace Literacy showcase companies whose
workplace literacy programs enhance employee reading, writing and numeracy
skills
through in-house training, core competency evaluations and skills promotion.
Winning organizations will be showcased and honoured at the 2005
International Workplace Education and Learning Conference: Developing
People—Maximizing
Performance (Visit the conference website). To enter, submit
a description of your company’s program by March 18, 2005. For
more details, visit the Conference
Board's Awards for Excellence in Workplace Literacy website or
contact Linda Scott, Awards Program Manager, at 1-888-801-8818 Ext.
277, or
by e-mail at scott@conferenceboard.ca.
CALL FOR CREATIVE EXPRESSION
What
Counts? Who Counts? Explore! Create! Express! Festival of Literacies.
Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Literacy practitioners, learners and volunteers are invited to create
visual images of our pressing questions about literacy and learning.
The Festival of Literacies at OISE wants to collect your art over the
next few months and show it publicly at the time of the release of
the new International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS) statistics.
This visual art show will give an alternative view of adult literacy
from how it is represented in the IALSS. For more information visit
www.literacies.OISE.ca or contact Sheila Stewart at sstewart@oise.utoronto.ca
Phone: (416)
923-6641, ext. 2708. |