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.
 
Back Table of Contents Next Page