NALL Working Papers - Edited by David W. Livingstone - Centre for the Study of Education and Work

Livingstone November, 2006 Centre for the Study of Education and Work Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto The NALL Working Papers 1 Introduction The Research Network on New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL) based at the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). [...] Advancement of Knowledge The NALL research has served to establish an expanded conceptual framework to study learning and work, including paid employment, housework and community volunteer work as well as formal schooling, adult education courses and informal learning activities, and to examine the interrelations of all of these forms of learning and work. [...] NALL surveys and the case studies annotated below established benchmarks of the general incidence of informal learning activities for all Canadian adults and for the labour force, as well as providing profiles of the relations of informal learning with social background characteristics and barriers to utilizing informally acquired knowledge in educational institutions and paid workplaces. [...] A comparison of the results of the 1999 survey with those of similar surveys conducted in 1991 and 1993 revealed that the wages of sewing machine operators remained at the levels of the 1980s. [...] Education of the public and policymakers and broad-based action on the part of homeworkers and the government are needed.