The Center for Literacy
Learning Events - Institutes
Summer Institute 2012, Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills: Shaping a New Learning Culture
Institute | Last updated: May 7, 2012
The 2012 Institute will focus on questions about the roles of context and culture as factors in program outcomes. Registration is limited to 100. For more information, read the brochure.
Fall Institute 2012: Social Finance for Adult Basic Learning – October 14-16, 2012 – Saint John, NB
Institute | Last updated: May 8, 2012
The institute will explore a range of social finance and other innovative funding models such as those currently being proposed by governments, focusing on how these models might apply to literacy and essential skills programs in community and workplace.
IALS Fall Institute 2011 in Banff, AB
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
We have posted Think Papers, Country Stories, and some Presentations, Photos, and Questions and Answers for the Institute, which explored the story of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and its successors in Canada and other countries. It traced the shift from “literacy” to “skills” to “competencies”, and explored evolving methodology and the impacts of the international literacy assessments over two decades on policy and practice.
We have started a blog on the Institute at https://ialsinst.wordpress.com/
Summer Institute 2011: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills - Embedding Practice, Preparing Providers
Institute | Last updated: May 7, 2012
The presentations from this year's summer institute [Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills: Embedding Practice, Preparing Providers] are now up, and the page has been re-organized.
Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills - What Counts? and Why? (2010)
Institute | Last updated: April 11, 2012
The 2010 Summer Institute examined how workplace literacy and essential skills (WES) programs are evaluated, and asked whether we are measuring the right things in the right way. Read more
Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills - What Works? and Why? (2009)
Institute | Last updated: April 5, 2012
The first of three summer institutes on the topic of workplace literacy and essential skills, focusing on best practices. Read more
Health and Literacy: Constructing Curriculum for Health-Care Providers (2008)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
The Centre for Literacy, Bow Valley College, and the Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (CCL) co-sponsored this three-day institute in Calgary on October 16-18, 2008. This Learning Institute set out to examine how to design health literacy curriculum for health care providers. Read more
ESL and Literacy (2008)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Recent studies acknowledge that many second-language learners, including some who lack mother tongue literacy, enrol in adult literacy programs. The 2008 Summer Institute brought together participants to meet with organizations and individuals who have done the early research. Read more
Libraries and Literacy (2007)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Presenters from Swift Current, SK, to Hobart, Tasmania, spoke of inspiring partnerships between libraries and literacy groups that support broad-based literacy development. Read more
Accountability and Public Trust - Restoring the Balance (2006)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
This Institute focused on the effects accountability mechanisms can have on adult literacy organizations. Read more
Adult Basic Education & Literacy, Media and Technology (2005)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Debate about the role of technology in literacy and learning often stops as soon as someone says casually, “… But technology is only a tool.” Historians of technology would argue that while it is certainly a tool, tools change the way we organize ourselves and ultimately the way we think.
Adult Basic Education - Impact of Policy on Practice (2004)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
The articles in this issue are versions of “Think Papers” that we requested from the international presenters. We asked them to write from their personal vantage points of direct or research involvement in adult basic education or literacy policy.
Literacy and Health: Prescription for Progress (2003)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
The Institute was a three-day facilitated exchange that brought together adult basic education practitioners, health care professionals, researchers, and policy makers to explore questions, enlarge understanding, and identify strategies in an effort to move literacy health policy and practice forward across local, national and international
boundaries.
Math for Learning, Math for Life (2002)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Numeracy is now seen as the “mirror image of literacy” but there is still a general lack of understanding about the difference between “numeracy” and “math.” The 2002 Summer Institute brought together some of the best-known numeracy researcher/practitioners in the world for three days. Read LACMF article in PDF
Literacy, Technology and Learning Disabilities (2001)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
The Centre for Literacy of Quebec ran the 2001 Summer Institute in Montreal from June 28 - 30, in collaboration with The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC). The three days were filmed by the National Film Board for their projected website called the Learning Centre (http://www.nfb.ca). Read more
Adult Literacy and Television: Has a familiar tool been overlooked? (2000)
Institute | Last updated: January 30, 2012
Participants from around the world met at the 11th Annual Summer Institute of The Centre for Literacy to consider how television has been used in many countries to create public awareness and to teach literacy skills to adults. This Institute brought together some of the pioneers in the field to meet with practitioners and policy-makers, share their experiences, and explore directions for the future.
