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The CSEW approach to research practice is to
involve community and labour partners as full participants. It provides the
University of Toronto with a special educational presence in the wider North
American network of university-based research on work and society, and
labour studies.
CSEW provides growing
opportunities for students interested in this field to engage in integrated
programs of study, seminars, thesis workshops and research projects. Some of
the CSEW research projects are:
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Anti-Poverty
Community Organizing and Learning (APCOL). 2009-2014,
a SSHRC
CURA grant
LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER
an APCOL Community Research Conference
June 7 & 8, 2011
A hands-on conference working directly with data from the APCOL surveys and case studies. We’ll talk about how we can make good use of this research in our recruiting, organizing and capacity-building work and look for answers to questions such as:
Why do some people get involved in neighbourhood groups working forchange, and others don’t?
What do people learn through their involvement?
Why do some decide to stay and others leave?
WHERE IS IT?
FoodShare, 90 Croatia St., Toronto
For more details go to the APCOL web site
REGISTER NOW
APCOL Newsletter:
Autumn 2009 Vol.
1, No. 1
APCOL Newsletter:
Spring 2010 Vol.
1, No. 2
APCOL Newsletter:
Autumn 2010 Vol.
2, No. 1
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The
Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning in the New Economy,
WALL network, funded by the SSHRC Collaborative
Research Initiative on the New Economy (INE) for the 2003-2007 period.
D.W. Livingstone was principal investigator for both the NALL and
WALL networks. Several CSEW Steering Committee members took leadership roles
in both networks (www.wallnetwork.ca).
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The New
Approaches to Lifelong Learning,
NALL
network, CSEW funded research by the SSHRC Strategic
Education and Training Networks Program for the 1997-2002 period (www.nall.ca).
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The project
led by Jack Quarter under the SSHRC INE Research Alliance
category, entitled
Transformative Education for Pension Investment in the
New Economy: A Union-Academic Partnership,
received funding for 2003-2006.
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Education-Job Requirement Matching in the
New Economy,
SSHRC INE general research grant, 2002-2007. D.W. Livingstone.
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Skilled in Vulnerability: Work-related Learning amongst
Contingent Workers, SSHRC INE general research grant, Kiran Mirchandani.
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The Learning and Work Database: Resource Materials for
Teaching,
WALLRB.
CRC-CFI grant, 2004-2008.
D. W. Livingstone.
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Understanding Educational Capacity for Urban Community
Unionism.
SSHRC standard grant. 2006-2009. Peter Sawchuk.
In the 2003-07 period, WALL employed over 50 graduate students
in its 13 subprojects, over half of them from OISE and U of T.
For example, through
the twelve case studies within the WALL project, students were
put in touch with current thinking around learning and work
among community, union and corporate partners.
Mirchandani’s project on women precarious workers’ learning in
the new economy was conducted by a team which included the PI
(Kiran Mirchandani), a co-investigator (Roxana Ng), a community
researcher (Karen Hadley) and six student members.
Graduate
students have been fully involved in related projects by many
members of the CSEW Steering Committee, under contracts with
organizations like the Applied Research Branch of HRSDC, the
Canadian Policy Research Network, the Ontario Ministry of
Education and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.
This work was base for numerous publications by Sawchuk and
colleagues.
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