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- From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: union workplace teacher trainings
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- /* Written 10:31 am Jan 6, 1993 by worklife@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.resource */
- /* ---------- "union workplace teacher trainings" ---------- */
- TEACHER TRAININGS FOR WORKPLACE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
- WORKER-CENTERED EDUCATION FOR A BETTER FUTURE
-
- The Worklife Education Resource Center (WERC) is a union-based
- project offering on-site teacher trainings that enable teachers to
- operate more effectively in what is often an unfamiliar context.
- Our goal is to provide services which strengthen the role of the
- union by building upon workers' knowledge and skills. Trainings cover:
-
- * Knowing the Workplace
- - Understanding the workplace as a culture and a community
- - Understanding power relationships within the workplace and how
- they impact on workers' capacity to learn
-
- * Knowing the Workers
- - Understanding the workers as students who carry a substantial
- body of knowledge and an important relationship as co-workers
- - Understanding how workers' past learning experiences affect current learning
-
- * Building the Curriculum
- - Developing content from the knowledge and experience of workers
- - Developing skills relevant to work-based application of workers'
- knowledge
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- * Working with Unions and Management
- - Understanding the roles of shop stewards and supervisors
- - Communicating with stewards and supervisors
- - Using stewards' and supervisors' knowledge and resources to
- develop curriculum
- - Working with stewards and supervisors to structure classes
- around workers' needs
- - Recognizing impact of top management and union leadership on program
-
- Worklife Education Resource Center (WERC). WERC was developed as a
- project of the Center for Working Life in 1990, with support from
- the Hewlett and Irvine Foundations. WERC is a resource and
- clearinghouse for unions, community colleges, and businesses.
- WERC services include a resource library with on-line capacity,
- technical assistance, training, evaluation, and direct counseling
- and teaching services.
-
- Center for Working Life (CWL). CWL is a non-profit organization
- providing union-based training, education, and mental health
- services to workers, unions, and labor-management programs since
- 1984. The multi-cultural staff combines work and union experience
- with professional training in education, social work, and
- psychology. The Center also conducts training and consultation in
- the areas of sexual harassment, dislocated worker services, peer
- counseling, communications skills, and work stress.
-
- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT ANDREW GROSS
- AT THIS ACCOUNT OR VIA PHONE:
- 1-800-995-2710 (510) 893-7343 (510) 893-0943 FAX
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- A Project of the Center for Working Life SEIU 535 AFL/CIO
-