Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment International Recognition for Prior Learning (RPL) Conference - Ottawa, November 7-9, 2010

Livingstone Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work Professor Emeritus Department of Sociology and Equity Studies Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Abstract This presentation will summarize basic findings from three national surveys conducted in 1998, 2004 and 2010 on paid and unpaid work, formal and informal learning a. [...] ] Table 2: PLAR for different types of learning, different motives Many discussions of PLAR conflate or confound PLAR for different types of learning (formal or informal) as well as different motives (education or work-related) for PLAR: Motives Formal education Informal learning recognition of prior formal recognition of prior learning at another informal learning in educational institution in gr. [...] ] Graph 13: General Involvement in Informal Learning & PLAR All Adults, 2004-2010 (% interested) 100 75 50 25 22 30 42 40 59 53 72 69 0 0-5 Informal Learning 6-11 Informal Learning 12-19 Informal Learning 20-45 Informal Learning Topics Topics Topics Topics 2004 2010 [ Source: WALL, 2004 and WALL, 2010. [...] Concluding Remarks PLAR for employment motives • Fuller recognition in paid workplaces of current educational credentials and informally acquired job skills and knowledge among the large numbers of underemployed workers, especially service workers and industrial workers, as well as fuller recognition of formal credentials from abroad and informally acquired job skills and knowledge of recent immig. [...] Livingstone Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto 252 Bloor St.