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Shan, Hongxia; Peikazadi, Nasim; Rahemtulla, Zahida; Wilbur, Amea; Sawkins, Tanis; Goossen, Rachel – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
Employment training services are provided for immigrants to integrate them into the Canadian labour market. Evaluated on short-term labour market outcomes, these programs typically focus on enhancing individuals' employability, while risking naturalizing and reproducing the dominant social and cultural order. "Entry to Hospitality Careers for…
Descriptors: Females, Hospitality Occupations, Immigrants, Employment Potential
Klassen, Mike; Donald, John – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2020
This paper analyzes the curriculum of engineering leadership offerings in Canadian universities. We operationalize an adapted version of Lattuca and Stark's (2011) academic plan framework to analyze key documents of engineering leadership offerings embedded in the engineering curriculum in six different universities. In the process, we generate…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Julien, Mark; Stratton, Micheal; Clayton, Russell – Management Teaching Review, 2018
This article features an innovative and engaging assignment to help students learn about labor history events. Labor history is more than just a collection of dates, facts, and figures. Rather, it is the study of the men, women, and children who fought for a workplace that many of today's employees take for granted: paid leave, a 5-day workweek,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Media, Labor Relations
McCallum, Elin – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2019
As a result of its direct link to the labour market, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays an important role in equipping the modern workforce with in-demand skills. This discussion paper aims to inspire the introduction of entrepreneurial learning in TVET towards a fully mainstreamed approach, whereby entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Teaching Methods
Mullen, Carol A. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
Certain global leadership forces -- competitiveness, tolerance, and creativity -- are so pervasive they can be illustrated on the part of any country. However, nations also have unique dynamics to consider within our interconnected world. This is the overarching issue being expressed in this essay wherein the author deconstructs Canada's official…
Descriptors: Creativity, Competition, Prosocial Behavior, Educational Change
National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2017
Inclusive Behavior Instruction features universal or schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports in a multi-tiered system of support. Many schools use School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (SWPBIS; Horner et al., 2009) for this purpose. Andreau, McIntosh, Ross, and Kahn describe thirteen characteristics of…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Student Behavior, School Personnel
Shan, Hongxia – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2015
In order to integrate into the host labour market, immigrants are often expected and indeed trained to minimize sociocultural differences. This paper problematizes the deficit/dismissive approach towards difference. It stresses instead that, in the context of globalization and immigration, encounters of difference have afforded a potentially…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, Labor Market, Teaching Methods
Maitra, Srabani – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2015
In the current Canadian neo-liberal labour market work-related learning and training are considered key strategies for developing workers' economic productivity and expediting their integration to the labour market. An important aspect of such training and learning now consists of soft-skills. Yet, some scholars are ambivalent about the nature of…
Descriptors: Asians, Immigrants, Labor Market, Females
Vogt, Rosemary – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
In many trades the demand for training seats has strained the conventional delivery capacity of training providers in Canada. Manitoba, along with other Canadian provinces is experiencing a shortage of skilled tradespersons required to enable current and future economic expansion. Due to the deficiency in the skilled labor force, a community…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Skilled Workers
Andreou, Theresa E.; McIntosh, Kent; Ross, Scott W.; Kahn, Joshua D. – Journal of Special Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify, categorize, and describe practitioners' perspectives regarding factors that help and hinder sustainability of Tier I (universal) systems within School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS). Seventeen participants involved in sustaining Tier I SWPBIS over several years within a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, Positive Reinforcement, Student Behavior
McGregor, Heather Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
Recognizing that educational change in Nunavut has not been extensively documented, this article provides an entry point for considering how Nunavut can be better understood and situated with scholarship on Indigenous education in Canada. Comparing the history of education in Nunavut with key turning points in First Nations education, the article…
Descriptors: Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Indigenous Populations
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne, Ed.; Cherrstrom, Catherine, Ed.; McGinty, Jacqueline, Ed.; Rhodes, Christy, Ed. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) was founded in 1982 as the result of a merger between the National Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education (NAPCAE) and the Adult Education Association (AEA). This prestigious association is dedicated to the belief that lifelong learning contributes to human…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Holmes, Eric; And Others – 1976
The nine units highlight the history, activities, values, and aspirations of the Canadian labor force. The program's purpose is to help secondary school social studies students develop a more objective appreciation of labor and of labor's role in Canadian social history. The first unit, "Union Today," analyzes contemporary union activity…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Instructional Materials, Labor, Labor Conditions
Langford, Rachel – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
Findings in this article indicate that training programs use a key pedagogical and ideological discourse of "teachers make a difference" to motivate female early childhood education students to enter and stay in the field. However, research in the area of workforce retention maintains that many graduates are not willing to enter and stay…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Market, Motivation, Preschool Teachers
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