CSEW Working Groups 

Steering Committee: Chaired by D. W. Livingstone, guides all CSEW activities and has been especially instrumental in the development of our research agenda, including major proposals to the SSHRC. 

Education and Curriculum Working Group: Chaired by Peter Sawchuk, this group includes staff from the Toronto and District School Board (TDSB), the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF). It coordinates an extensive and sustainable pre-service teacher education program in education and work issues, building on prior business and technological studies offerings, and addresses challenges of coordination among graduate studies offerings in the inter-departmental focus on Learning and Work. 

Innovative Practices in Labour Education Working Group: Chaired by CSEW coordinator D’Arcy Martin, this group includes union-based and community-based adult educators, has established links in Québec, Saskatchewan, Illinois and California, and initiated a continent-wide series of labour educator exchanges. 

Democratizing Workplace Learning Working Group (DWL): Chaired by Kiran Mirchandani, this group includes several graduate students and union representatives, and coordinates three research projects around race-based barriers to technology access and related learning among contingent workers. 

Research Working Group: Chaired by D.W. Livingstone, this group coordinated the development and completion of the Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL) research network project, which conducted annual conferences, conducted large-scale national surveys and completed twelve qualitative case studies. Among the project outputs is a web site (www.wallnetwork.ca), many articles and at least eight books. This group continues to nurture and assist new project initiatives by newer interested faculty.  

CSEW Steering Committee