NOTES TO CHAPTER 1


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.
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.
 
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