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NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
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| 1. |
Audrey Thomas, Canadian Adult Basic
Literacy Resource Kit (Toronto: The movement for Canadian Literacy, 1979),
p. 22. |
| 2. |
Audrey M. Thomas, Adult Basic
Education and Literacy Activities in Canada, 1975-76 (Toronto: World
Literacy of Canada, 1976); Norvell Northcutt, Final Report: The Adult
Performance Level Study (University of Texas at Austin, August 1977). |
| 3. |
A. Thomas, ...Resource Kit,
op.cit., p22 |
| 4. |
Ibid., p. 42. |
| 5. |
Ibid., p. 31. |
| 6. |
Gary Dickinson, quoted in R. J. Adams,
Education and Working Canadians: Report of the Commission of Inquiry on
Educational Leave and Productivity (Ottawa: Labour Canada, 1979), p. 122.
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| 7. |
The Reading Camp Association, later
renamed Frontier College, began providing reading materials and literacy
instruction in Ontario in 1899. See Chapter 10, 11 and 12 for a critical
history of literacy activities in Canada. |
| 8. |
Coolie Verner, "Illiteracy and
Poverty, B.T.D.S Review 11:2 (November 1973), p. 9. |
| 9. |
J.R. Kidd, "From Remedial to
Continuing Education," Food For Thought 21:3 (December 1960), p.
108. |
| 10. |
For example, adults with fewer than 8
year of educational attainment (i.e. from no education through 7 years of
schooling) made up 13% of full-time institutional trainees in the Manpower
program in the 1974-1975 year, totaling over 23 thousand adults. See Canada
Manpower and Immigration, Adult Training 1:3 (Winter 1976), p. 41. |
| 11. |
Henry M. Levin, "A Decade of Policy
Developments in Improving Education and Training for Low-Income
Populations" in Robert H. Haveman (ed.) A Decade of Federal Antipoverty
Programs (New York: Academic Press, 1977), p. 123-130. |