|
NOTES TO CHAPTER 6
|
| 1. |
This rationale was put forward as early
as 1976, when the Department of Manpower and Immigration first began to scale
down the upgrading program. See Audrey Thomas, Adult Literacy in the
Seventies: conference Report (Toronto: The Movement for Canadian Literacy,
1978), p. 7-8.
|
| 2. |
See Literacy, "News
From.....British Columbia," 4:1 (Winter), p. 12-15.
|
| 3. |
For example, see Metropolitan Toronto
Movement for Literacy, "A Brief to the Ministry of Education, the
Honourable Bette Stephenson in Response to Continuing Education: The Third
System Discussion Paper," Toronto, September 1981, p. 2.
|
| 4. |
Free tuition for all grades up to and
including Grade 12 equivalency is available to every resident of British
Columbia, including those adults who did not reach that level as children.
|
| 5. |
Leon Bataille (ed.), A Turning Point
for Literacy (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976), p. 273-276.
|
| 6. |
Ron Faris, "Report of the Committee
on Adult Basic Education: Discussion Paper 01/79," (Province of British
Columbia: Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 1979), p. 8.
|
| 7. |
Literacy, "News From .......
British Columbia," op.cit., p. 13.
|
| 8. |
Metropolitan Toronto Movement for
Literacy, "ABE Gets Attention in Government Brief," Starting
Out 1:4 (April 1981), p. 1-2.
|
| 9. |
Ibid., p. 2.
|
| 10. |
R.J. Adams, Education and Working
Canadians: Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Educational Leave and
Productivity (Ottawa: Labour Canada, 1979).
|
| 11. |
Ibid., p. 116
|
| 12. |
Ibid., p. 206. |