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Learning Link: March 15, 2007

Lessons in Learning: Canada's biggest economic challenge—Improving workplace learning

A decade ago, the biggest economic challenge facing Canada was creating enough jobs for our workers. Within the next decade, our biggest challenge will be ensuring we have enough workers and that they have the skills and knowledge they need. Without a strong commitment to and investment in workplace learning, there is no certainty that Canada will be up to this challenge. Read article »

CCL funds early childhood learning projects

CCL is pleased to announce that it has agreed to fund six proposals to conduct research in early childhood learning. Funding for three additional projects will be announced shortly.

Being Systematic: An Effective Approach to Locating Research about Learning

CCL, the Canadian Society for the Study of Education and the University of Saskatchewan’s Faculty of Education are hosting this one-day preconference workshop for people interested in locating and reviewing research about learning across the lifespan. This session will take place at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, on Friday, May 25, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Recent articles by CCL staff

  • Charles Ungerleider, CCL’s Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization, recently published an essay called “Reflections on the Use of Large-scale Student Assessment for Improving Student Success” in the Canadian Journal of Education, volume 29, number 3 (2006). Read article »

  • Ungerleider also collaborated with John O. Anderson, W. Todd Rogers, Don A. Klinger, Victor Glickman and Barry Anderson on “Student and School Correlates of Mathematics Achievement: Models of School Performance Based on Pan-Canadian Student Assessment”. This article explores the relationships between student achievement and student, school and home variables identified in the School Achievement Indicators Program administered by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. This study is also published in the Canadian Journal of Education, volume 29, number 3 (2006). Read article »

  • CCL researcher, Sonia Guerriero, collaborated in a cross-national study of the technical features of language acquisition by English-speaking and Japanese-speaking children. The results of the research have been published in an article in the Cambridge University Press Journal of Child Language, volume 33 (2006). Read article »

Reminder: CCL seeking nominations for new program recognizing effective learning initiatives

CCL is currently seeking nominations for Sharing the Flame: Recognizing Excellence in Learning, a new program to celebrate innovative and effective learning initiatives from across the country in each of the following learning themes—Aboriginal learning, adult learning, early childhood learning, health-related learning, and work and learning. Please note that the Adult Learning eligibility criteria were updated on March 1, 2007. If you accessed the web page prior to March 1, please ensure that you have downloaded the updated page.

Selected programs will be recognized at a CCL awards ceremony in Ottawa on June 12, 2007, and showcased at a conference on June 13, 2007. The projects will also be featured in an “idea book” that will be distributed in print and electronic format to stakeholders and interested parties across Canada.

Entries are open to individuals and organizations with active projects related to any of the five learning themes. Please complete and submit CCL’s Sharing the Flame Call for Nominations by Monday, April 2, 2007.

Reminder: Call for articles for CCL's Journal of Applied Research on Learning

The Canadian Council on Learning is pleased to invite submissions for its online peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of Applied Research on Learning (JARL). Authors of original applied research interested in submitting manuscripts to be considered for publication in JARL should review the Aims of the Journal of Applied Research on Learning, the Call for Submissions, as well as the Guidelines for Authors for detailed information on submission requirements.

JARL is intended to address topics that, while focussed on examples of applied research on learning, will offer readers relevant theoretical discussions and act as a catalyst for expanding existing knowledge in specific areas of practice and/or research on learning relevant to the Canadian context. The journal will be available through CCL's website as a free publication containing material written in both French and English. JARL will be published twice annually as a summer/fall issue and a winter/spring issue. The first issue will be published in spring 2007.

We invite you to circulate this announcement to colleagues, graduate students, researchers and/or organizations who may be interested in submitting a manuscript to JARL for consideration. The deadline for submissions of manuscripts for the next issue of JARL is March 30, 2007.

Questions can be addressed to the editorial staff of JARL.

 

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