[PDF] Worker Centered Learning eBook

Author : Anthony R. Sarmiento
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Unions are some of the best experts on workforce literacy. Few organisations can match their track record for helping workers improve their literacy skills. Unions' experience - brought to you in this guidebook - can help you establish or strengthen a workplace literacy program for your members.

Author : Michelle R. Weise
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119597528

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A visionary guide for the future of learning and work Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet offers readers a fascinating glimpse into a near-future where careers last 100 years, and education lasts a lifetime. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives — which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the disruptive and burgeoning innovations that are laying the foundation for a new learning model that includes clear navigation, wraparound and funding supports, targeted education, and clear connections to more transparent hiring processes. Written by the former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network’s Institute for the Future of Work, the book examines: How will a dramatically extended lifespan affect our careers? How will more time in the workforce shape our educational demands? Will a four-year degree earned at the start of a 100-year career adequately prepare us for the challenges ahead? Perfect for anyone with an interest in the future of education and Clayton Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation, Long Life Learning provides an invaluable glimpse into a future that many of us have not even begun to imagine.

Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801472572

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As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.

Author : Melina L. Gallo
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Active learning
ISBN : 9781575242170

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The author describes the way in which workplace literacy programs can use a creative learner-centered approach to facilitate language learning through problem posing and critical thinking. By using learners' own experiences as the basis for the curriculum un a critical approach to literacy, educators can provide a common ground for adults of differing language backgrounds and learning styles to better use their literacy skills in a workplace culture. Additionally, the book details the ways in which educators can help workers learn to negotiate the environment of the workplace and to use their communicative skills outside of work.

Author : Steven London
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1990-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This work brings together articles and papers by union leaders, activists, social scientists, and educators to provide an overview of the field of worker education. Along with presenting the major historical models of worker education, the book addresses the present issues confronting worker educators today. The book's final sections present alternative models of worker education that illustrate a variety of approaches currently being employed. All selections found in this volume represent original contributions not published elsewhere. The first section of the book considers the field of worker education from four levels of social determinism: institutional, ideological, pedagogical, and personal. The second part focuses on three historical stages of worker education. The articles cover the early radical phase of worker education, the period of union-university cooperation, and the current, dominant union-sponsored model of worker education. The third section considers issues which have risen from worker education's history, institutional configurations, and worker education's place in modern American society. The final section of the book presents evaluations of working alternatives to the dominant models of worker education. The authors not only discuss specific programs and institutions, but they do so in the context of the historical models outlined in the first two sections and the issues raised in Part 3. This book will be of value to students of the social science and education disciplines, adult and labor educators, trade unionists, and others interested in this burgeoning field.