Embedding Literacy & Essential Skills in the Workplace: Final Research Report

This is the research report from the Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills in the Workplace research project conducted from October 2009 to December 2012. The project investigated strategies for developing sustainable, practical workplace literacy initiatives embedded into work environments in the corrections sector, the Aboriginal sector, and the healthcare sector.

The presentation of the overall project and its evaluation framework is followed by three action research reports from each sector. Each of the action research reports outlines the situation before the project, the results of a literacy audit in the workplace, and an exploration of the opportunities to integrate the content or embed the practice of literacy and essential skills into the work environment.

In addition to the research report, a guidebook ‘Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills in the Workplace: Lessons from the research’ was developed.

Related Resources

Enhancing Displaced Workers’ Literacy and Essential Skills: Evaluation Framework

Decoda commissioned the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) to design and conduct a developmental evaluation of the Enhancing Displaced Workers Literacy and Essential Skills project. This document presents SRDC’s …

Embedding Literacy & Essential Skills: Lessons from our research

A discussion of the Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills project, which investigated strategies for the development of sustainable, practical workplace literacy programs that could be incorporated into a work environment. …

Enhancing Displaced Workers’ Literacy and Essential Skills: Literature Review

This literature review and best practices scan provides an overview of displaced workers in Canada and identifies best practices related to LES interventions. The literature review is guided by three …