Adult learning video series. [videorecording (DVD)]

Adult learning video series. [videorecording (DVD)]

Publication Date
2008

Publication Information
[Toronto, Ont.] : Adult Learning Knowledge Centre, Canadian Council on Learning,

Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 21 min.)

Subject Term
Adult education -- Canada.
 
Functional literacy -- Canada.
 
Literacy programs -- Canada.
 
Basic education -- Canada.
 
Vocational qualifications -- Canada.

Contents
Conducting a field study on the participation and professionalization of fishers -- PLAR: an effective tool for poverty reduction -- Theatre to unveil prejudices against literacy -- Picture it! Publish it! Read it! -- Meeting of minds: issues and strategies of PLAR at Canada's universities -- Place all my own.
 
Adult education in the fishing Industry -- PLAR [prior learning assessment recognition]: working to reduce poverty -- Challenging literacy prejudices through theatre -- Adult literacy through family workshops -- Benefits of PLAR in Canadian universities -- Young adults in the North share their stories.

Summary
Six short videos illustrate the power of adult learning. Each video provides a story on how adult learning has positively affected communities, individual learners and professional/community-based organizations.

Language
English

General Note
DVD.

Language Note
In English and French, with some subtitles in English and French.


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