Please feel free to use these materials compiled from over 90 projects to date.
Community Justice – Our community justice project had us develop learning materials for Aboriginal court workers that worked in the field of community justice. The topics range from the legal system, constitutional law, Indian residential schools, Aboriginal sentencing provisions, youth and justice systems, adoption and split feathers.
Cook Assessment – Working with the Apprenticeship Branch of Manitoba we developed a system to allow cooks with prior experience to gain credit for the first level of apprentice cook.
Portfolio for Youth – Our Portfolio for Youth Project was developed to help youth understand their knowledge, skills, and abilities to help with finding work. We piloted this with at-risk youth but these tools would be great for guidance councilors and teachers too.
Family Portfolio – The Family Portfolio Program is a unique approach to help communities, schools and other organizations reach out to families who may be newcomers, immigrants, or isolated for other cultural or literacy reasons.
Research
The Centre for Education and Work has conducted and published research of the areas of workplace education, workers in transition, and prior learning experience, including:
- Workers in Transition is a Canadian study on using portfolio and PLAR as a tool to help underemployed and unemployed workers transition to new work.
- Workplace Informal Learning Matrix impact study. This study measures the effectiveness of our informal learning assessment tool.
- Learning Organization Literature Review. This review is focused primarily on Canadian research but makes links to resources from the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Persons with Acquired Disabilities in Employment Transition Report.
- Informal Learning in the Workplace Literature Review.