Literacy

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

parents were illiterate, still has only limited literacy himself, having left school before he was a teenager … spectrum of socioeconomic community type and literacy (from those with basic orthographic skills to … striking how often issues such as education, literacy, shopping, the built environment, national politics …

Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …

Ontario was more urban than Quebec, had higher literacy rates and lower fertility rates, but also had …

“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …

children with difficult home lives and taught literacy skills to adults, walked dogs at a local shelter …

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …

of Cognitive Science Michael R. W. Dawson Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Legal Studies Archie Zariski … in the school system. In addition to teaching literacy and numeracy, schooling inculcates certain behaviours …

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

curator’s letter to Grandpa, without Japanese literacy skills, I was unable to verify these and other …

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

Hayes et al., “Telling Stories: News Media, Health Literacy and Public Policy in Canada,” Social Science …

average person lives 16 years longer and is 40 percent more satisfied with his or her life; youth literacy is nearly universal and there is no gap between boys and girls; environments are cleaner; and people …

average person lives 16 years longer and is 40 percent more satisfied with his or her life; youth literacy is nearly universal and there is no gap between boys and girls; environments are cleaner; and people …

• In the most economically free places, youth literacy is nearly universal and there is no gap between … In the most economically free places, youth literacy is nearly universal and there is no gap between … of Population Figure 1.12: Economic Freedom and Literacy Rate Among 15–24 Year Olds 21.3 Economic Freedom …

average person lives 16 years longer and is 40 percent more satisfied with his or her life; youth literacy is nearly universal and there is no gap between boys and girls; environments are cleaner; and people …

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

nonlineal “languages,” but between orality and literacy, as McLuhan was fully aware.27 Hence his focus … As McLuhan put it in “The Agenbite of Outwit,” “literacy stresses lineality, a one-thing-at-a-time awareness … by McLuhan, who suggests in “Culture Without Literacy” that the most sig- nificant aspect of the McCarthy … also broached by McLuhan in “Culture Without Literacy” (E1). Francis L.K. Hsu, one of the founders … to culture with- out literacy (E1) and Joan Rayfield’s article about post-literacy (E5). What made this …