Creating a Blueprint for a Critical Social Pedagogy of Learning for Life and Work: Canadian Perspectives

In Canada, current federal learning-and-work policy is focused on individual learner-worker development using an iteration of lifelong learning as cyclical. Increasing numbers of disenfranchised young adults are resisting participation in such learning. In this regard, I consider the predicament of...

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Main Author: Grace, André P.
Format: Text
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Published: New Prairie Press 2006
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Online Access:https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2006/papers/27
https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2492&context=aerc
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Summary:In Canada, current federal learning-and-work policy is focused on individual learner-worker development using an iteration of lifelong learning as cyclical. Increasing numbers of disenfranchised young adults are resisting participation in such learning. In this regard, I consider the predicament of young adults in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. To help us think about adequately addressing the dislocation they experience in life and work, I offer a Freire-informed vision of a critical social pedagogy of learning and work.