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Browse the Canadian Council on Learning site by the following topics.

CCL's Five Key Areas of Learning
CCL has identified five key areas of learning in Canada that require urgent attention
Aboriginal Learning This page provides some quick links to a variety of information on Aboriginal learning like CCL's Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre which profiled and advanced the most current knowledge and exemplary practices in First Nations, Métis and Inuit learning.
Adult Learning This page provides some quick links to a variety of information on Adult learning including CCL's Adult Learning Knowledge Centre — a national source of expertise in the field of adult learning.
Early Childhood Learning This page provides some quick links to a variety of information on Early Childhood Learning including CCL's Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre. The ECLKC identified priorities for research, identified best practices, and created networks to ensure that the most current knowledge about early childhood learning was shared across Canada.
Health and Learning This page provides some quick links to a variety of information on Health and Learning including CCL's Health and Learning Knowledge Centre. The HLKC built on existing research and drew upon the active base of researchers in BC and Yukon who specialize in the health-education interface, and created links among researchers right across the country.
Work and Learning This page provides some quick links to a variety of information on Work and Learning including CCL's Work and Learning Knowledge Centre. Certainly, as we speak of the importance of lifelong learning, learning in the workplace is an obvious theme for CCL to pursue. In today’s knowledge-based economy and society, Canadians cannot afford to stop learning once they leave the formal education system. And businesses also cannot afford a workforce that is not evolving.

CCL's Crosscutting Themes
The Canadian Council on Learning has identified five crosscutting themes that relate to structured learning — structured learning from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and Post-secondary learning.
Culture As Canada becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it is essential to understand the role culture plays in our learning systems.
E-learning The ability to access and use high-quality learning resources anytime and anywhere is an increasingly important element of all forms of learning. Challenges remain in terms of coordinating the tools, standards, practices and infrastructure necessary, and building the capacity and confidence of both providers and learners to use e-learning effectively. CCL is working to bring together stakeholders to design a collaborative approach for advancing the use of e-learning in Canada in a sustainable manner.
Gender While inequitable and inadequate access to learning resources for girls and women remains the primary focus in international development research and advocacy work, some researchers in Canada have turned their attention to the question of why boys and young men are falling behind in primary, secondary and post-secondary school settings. But this is only one of many questions concerning gender as it affects access to resources, responses to programs, and learning outcomes. Gender issues—sometimes closely interwoven with cultural influences and demographic factors—are part of the fabric of the research and initiatives undertaken by each of the knowledge centres.
French Minority Settings Access to quality learning opportunities is a priority for all Canadians. While education systems in Canada strive to respond to the needs of all Canadians, certain sectors of society, including the francophone population outside Quebec, experience considerable challenges in gaining access to and successfully completing education and training programs. CCL seeks to develop a good understanding of the particular learning challenges facing the French-speaking population in minority settings and to ensure that the learning needs of this population are met.
Literacy Both in its narrower sense—the reading, writing and numeracy skills needed to cope with everyday tasks—and in its broader, more nuanced sense—the multiple literacies required to thrive in a knowledge economy—literacy is interwoven through the full spectrum of CCL’s work.