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Welcome
The Centre for
the Study of Education and Work [ CSEW ]
pursues critical investigations of all aspects of learning
that may be relevant to work. From the CSEW perspective, learning
includes formal schooling and continuing education courses, but
also informal self-directed and collective learning in workplace,
household and community spheres. Similarly, our expansive
definition of 'work' includes various forms of paid employment,
domestic labour and community volunteer activities.
The Centre contributes to the internal life of the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto
[OISE/UT]*,
both in the graduate program and the pre-service program, and
enhances the image and reality of the Institute as a practical
contributor to the development of policy, theory and practice in
the area of learning and work. The Centre is co-sponsored by the
departments of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
[SESE]*
and Adult Education and
Counselling
Psychology
[AECP]*.
Mission
The Centre for the Study of
Education and Work (CSEW) brings together academics, labour
educators and community partners to understand and enrich the
often undervalued informal and formal learning of working people.
The CSEW develops research and teaching programs on learning and
work. It promotes policy initiatives and public events connected
to both paid and unpaid workplaces, in traditional and new media
for learning.
The CSEW builds on current
course offerings at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto, to help strengthen
feminist, anti-racist, labour movement and working-class
perspectives and profiles within the University of Toronto. The CSEW’s working groups focus on social equity in school curriculum,
graduate studies, workplace education and labour education.
To act on this mission, the CSEW
has established a community of practice, with a vibrant steering
committee and a series of activities in which academic, labour and
community researchers engage in dialogue on learning and work
issues.
Participants and colleagues of the Centre address many aspects of
learning-work relations, such as: the connections between early
family socialization and career choices, learning and the creation
of socially responsible work, economic restructuring and
technological education, as well as the treatment of work in
school curricula, the relevance of vocational schooling and
informal learning for getting a job, the array of continuing and
informal learning activities in work organizations, comparisons of
the learning practices involved in housework and paid employment,
systemic underemployment of learning capacities in relation to
class, gender, racial, generational and other social differences,
the learning practices of unemployed people, and the
democratization of learning and work.
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