Download or read book Content Embedded Literacy in the Workplace written by Paolo Federighi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of embedded literacy, closely connected to embedded learning on one hand, and training in the workplace on the other, is a central theme for reflection on adult education in Europe and around the world. The Council of Europe indicates knowledge as a pivotal element for the economic and social development of the EU countries and the workplace is an important place for the learning and production of know-how and knowledge. The problem of achieving the competences needed for entering the current labour market concerns a large part of the adult population. And this is where embedded literacy comes in, a topic which the volume tries to deal with from a twofold viewpoint: through theoretical reflection outlining the theme against the development of the European labour market, and reflection on hands-on experiences resulting from a project financed by the European Community called CELiNE, Content Embedded Literacy Education for the New Economy, carried out between 2007-2009.
Download or read book Content Embedded Literacy in the Workplace written by Paolo Federighi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of embedded literacy, closely connected to embedded learning on one hand, and training in the workplace on the other, is a central theme for reflection on adult education in Europe and around the world. The Council of Europe indicates knowledge as a pivotal element for the economic and social development of the EU countries and the workplace is an important place for the learning and production of know-how and knowledge. The problem of achieving the competences needed for entering the current labour market concerns a large part of the adult population. And this is where embedded literacy comes in, a topic which the volume tries to deal with from a twofold viewpoint: through theoretical reflection outlining the theme against the development of the European labour market, and reflection on hands-on experiences resulting from a project financed by the European Community called CELiNE, Content Embedded Literacy Education for the New Economy, carried out between 2007-2009.
Download or read book Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills in the Workplace written by Diana Twiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Embedded Literacy Strengthening the Connection Between Work and Learning written by Deborah D'Amico and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper argues that adult learning must be embedded in real opportunities to demonstrate knowledge and skill at work, to climb the ladder of learning, and to reap the rewards for doing both. To create this context of hope for workers with who lack basic reading, writing, math and English language skills requires that education and training be delivered in a context of advocacy and action in support of such opportunities. Table of contents: * The context of contextual literacy * Incumbent workers: integrating basic skills and job training in a labor management partnership environment * Sector-based training and education for welfare to work populations * Getting a post-secondary education * Conclusion: lessons from evidence-based strategies for literacy and job training embedded in pro-worker sectoral development strategies.
Download or read book Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills in Workplace Learning Breaking the Solitudes written by Jay Derrick and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper (40 pages), from Jay Derrick and The Centre for Literacy, examined some of the common models used to think about, debate and plan workplace literacy and Essential Skills (WLES) programmes. Derrick considers that literacy and Essential Skills are interconnected and argues for the adoption of a situated - expansive model where both are central to workplace learning and organisational development. Derrick provides examples of projects and programmes from a variety of contexts and countries, and a summary of the findings of research on successful WLES provision. Table of contents: * Preface: The two solitudes of workplace learning in general and Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills (WLES) * Researcher's Note * Introduction: Defining terms (Embedding. Literacy and Essential Skills. Employability Skills. Workforce Learning) * Embedded Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills: An analytical framework (The Wolf-Evans matrix. Workplace Literacy Education: Decontextualized and contextualized approaches. Expansive and Restrictive workplace environments) * A four-model analytical framework (The Decontextualized Model. The Technical Model. The Situated-Restrictive Model. The Situated-Expansive Model. Towards a Situated-expansive Model: Hypotheses for the future) * Conclusion * Bibliography * Websites referred to in the text * Appendix 1: Questions to consider (developed for the 2011 Summer Institute in Montreal).
Download or read book Framework for Developing Skill Standards for Workplace Literacy written by Eunice Nicholson Askov and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glance at Work Educational Perspectives written by Vanna Boffo and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of work flexibility, precarious jobs, and the relationship between work, the market and production are subjects that are widely debated in the sociological, philosophical, economic and political spheres. Yet these topics are less touched on in the tradition of pedagogical research. The intention of this book is to build a seedbed for reflection on the central position assumed by work in the lives of every woman and man, inhabitants of a planet in which the transformation of work activities is imposing radical changes on lifestyles, community-building and societies. Work is not an abstract concept, but is incorporated into every human person who does it and into the relationships linking them to others. Man, his education and human formation provide the pivot around which to perform a pedagogical survey within the universe of "work", and inside the relationship between the human condition and working/professional life. What sense does work acquire today when going to observe children, young people, adults or migrants? Namely, what sense does it assume when its pivotal viewpoint is shifted off-centre in time and space? The essays intend to spark agile but critical, synchronic and diachronic reflection which, stemming from contextual questions on the meaning of work and on change in the workplace, will proceed to investigate the subjects in their specific lives and existential conditions. Essays by: Vanna Boffo, Pietro Causarano, Giovanna Del Gobbo, Emiliano Macinai, Maria Rita Mancaniello, Stefano Oliviero and Clara Silva.
Download or read book Workplace Literacy written by Susan Imel and published by . This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins with an overview of trends and issues, followed by tips on locating and selecting resources. Descriptions of selected workplace literacy programs illustrate various aspects of program development. List of resource organizations on a state-by-state guide to literacy documents. Includes an annotated bibliography.
Download or read book Low skilled take their qualifications one step up written by Paolo Federighi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process of validation and recognition and to ensure sufficient investment in and monitoring of the field (European Commission, 2006, 2007; European Parliament, 2008; European Council, 2008). It is unanimously recognized that adult learning can play a pivotal role in meeting the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, by fostering social cohesion, providing citizens with the skills required to find new jobs and helping Europe to better respond to the challenges of globalisation. Such needs are taken into consideration in this Volume where the main issues faced are related to what 33 European countries have been doing in order to raise the skills levels of low-skilled workers, address the problem of the high number of early school leavers, combat social exclusion, ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, quality of adult learning.
Download or read book Improving Adolescent Literacy written by Douglas Fisher and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives middle and secondary school teachers the tools they need to support students' comprehension and success in literacy and in content area learning Adolescent literacy, content area literacy, instructional strategies, writing to learn, vocabulary development MARKET: Middle and secondary school teachers
Download or read book Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills Lessons from Our Research written by Diana Twiss and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report (66 pages), from Tracy DeFoe and Diana Twiss, describes the findings from an action research project investigating strategies for developing sustainable, practical workplace literacy programmes. The goal was to find ways to help employers understand that literacy and essential skills should be part of everyday workplace training (instead of one-off or special events). The researchers found that the secret to sustainable programmes is listening to stakeholder needs, understanding the client's business and the environment in which they operate. The researchers summarise the project findings into four lessons: listen and learn, engage people in embedding, embed every which way, and repeat the cycle again. Table of contents: * Lesson one: Listen and learn * Lesson two: Engage people in finding opportunities to embed * Lesson three: Embed every which way (in training materials and methods, in work documents and processes, in communications and display, in normal work life) * Lesson four: Repeat lessons one, two and three * Concluding remarks.
Download or read book Improving Literacy at Work written by Alison Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to improve the basic skills of the workforce is a perennial problem for employers and employees alike.
Download or read book CELiNE Training Curriculum and Training Materials Improving Literacy Competencies Through Vocational Education written by Ioana Darjan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This curriculum guide is the product of a consortium of seven European Union organisations experienced in teaching and training VET learners. The manual is intended to be used for training VET teachers. The six modules include: Mapping workplace literacies, learner focused approaches to embedding literacy teaching, and teaching content embedded literacy. Table of contents: * Theoretical and practical aspects of CELiNE' Training curriculum and training materials (Features of embedded models of literacy education. Conclusions from embedded literacy models. Suggestions for developing embedded provision for learners. Overview of the material structure. Curriculum of Content Embedded Literacy for the New Economy) * Module 1. Literacy, lives and learning in the New Economy context * Module 2. Literacy in working life and workplace (Mapping workplace literacy. Literacy events and texts at the workplace. Literacy skills at the workplace. Mapping literacy skills in the occupational standards) * Module 3. Student focused approach of embedded literacy teaching (Motivation and auto-biography. The emotions code. Literacy and motivation. Communication and motivation. Literacy, needs and motivation) * Module 4. Teaching content embedded literacy (Organizing the workplace. Identifying embedded literacy. Designing embedded literacy education objectives. Strategy of embedding literacy competences education. Identifying ways to use resources and media to embed literacy) * Module 5. Using ICT to embed literacy in vocational activities (Case-study. Electronic tools. Awareness raising on more severe literacy problems - Role playing) * Module 6. Reflective practice and critical thinking (Self-reflection by writing a learning journal. Writing a learning autobiography. Disclosing and discussing the learning journal. Designing a learning portfolio. Analyse and solve individual learning problems by self-testing) * List of handouts * Annexe * References and resources.
Download or read book Changing Work Changing Workers written by Glynda A. Hull and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This glimpse into factories, hospitals, other work settings, and work-related literacy programs, shows the massive changes in expectations for workers' "skills" in the twenty-first century, especially regarding language and literacy.
Download or read book Improving the Literary Skills of Children and Young Adults written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vocabulary Instruction written by Edward J. Kame'enui and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigorous research available, the editors and contributors distill what PreK-8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.*New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.*Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.
Download or read book Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace written by Beatrice Quarshie Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Here Beatrice Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of at least four different socio-economic forces: (1) the digital and satellite technology enabling virtual environments for global outsourced data-processing; (2) the historical development of Ghana as a politically-stable Anglophone society with a relatively strong tradition of public education; (3) the neoliberal economic restructuring policies advanced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; and (4) the ready availability of women seeking to enter the formal wage economy either to seek independence from their roles within traditional families, or in order to support their families. The author's comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces reveals significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work. Through extensive interviews, the book sheds light on the educational backgrounds, day-to-day struggles, fears, and aspirations of the workers. Quarshie Smith develops this multi-faceted analysis with keen insights into the representational limitations and ethical responsibilities of the researcher. This pioneering study about outsourced data-processing work in West Africa opens up a new area for research and offers a fresh perspective from which to consider outsourcing in other regions of the globe.
