Résumé
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July 2002
D'Arcy is a union democrat and social activist who has worked primarily as a labour educator for the past 24 years. He is currently employed part time at the Quebec Federation of Labour (FTQ), helping to design and facilitate the Collège FTQ-Fonds, a residential training program for union staff. He is also coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the University of Toronto, which brings together academics and unionists to research the often hidden informal learning of workers. He works on contracts with unions across Canada and in the United States, often in co-facilitation with Barbara Thomas.
From 1978 to 1999, D'Arcy was in turn Canadian education director for the Steelworkers, the Communications Workers and the merged Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. After taking early retirement from the CEP, he shared the job of Canadian education director for the SEIU with Barbara Thomas, until they both resigned after the civil war/ raid which occurred in February 2000. During those years, he conceived, administered and led union courses in every province of Canada, including the course "Facing Management", and subsequent material on union strategies for training and workplace reorganization.
D'Arcy's experience in joint training initiatives includes a decade of work on the steering committee of the Sectoral Skills Council, in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. In a wider multi-partite context, he has participated in the work of successive federal and provincial task forces on vocational training, including ALearning a Living@ (1983), APeople and Skills in the Global Economy@ (1991) and ALocal Board Consultations@ (1992). In the late 1990's, he took part in two working groups of the Canadian Labour Force Development Board, dealing with standards for the purchase of training and with prior learning assessment and recognition.
His graduate degrees are in adult education, with his doctoral thesis focused on the Canadian labour movement as a learning environment. As an extra-mural instructor, he has taught at McMaster, York, Université de Montréal, and University of Toronto.
He has written many academic and professional articles, co-authored the 1991 Educating for a Change, a manual on popular education, and written Thinking Union: Education and activism in Canada's labour movement.
D'Arcy is a union democrat and social activist who has worked primarily as a labour educator for the past 24 years. He is currently employed part time at the Quebec Federation of Labour (FTQ), helping to design and facilitate the Collège FTQ-Fonds, a residential training program for union staff. He is also coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the University of Toronto, which brings together academics and unionists to research the often hidden informal learning of workers. He works on contracts with unions across Canada and in the United States, often in co-facilitation with Barbara Thomas.
From 1978 to 1999, D'Arcy was in turn Canadian education director for the Steelworkers, the Communications Workers and the merged Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. After taking early retirement from the CEP, he shared the job of Canadian education director for the SEIU with Barbara Thomas, until they both resigned after the civil war/ raid which occurred in February 2000. During those years, he conceived, administered and led union courses in every province of Canada, including the course "Facing Management", and subsequent material on union strategies for training and workplace reorganization.
D'Arcy's experience in joint training initiatives includes a decade of work on the steering committee of the Sectoral Skills Council, in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. In a wider multi-partite context, he has participated in the work of successive federal and provincial task forces on vocational training, including ALearning a Living@ (1983), APeople and Skills in the Global Economy@ (1991) and ALocal Board Consultations@ (1992). In the late 1990's, he took part in two working groups of the Canadian Labour Force Development Board, dealing with standards for the purchase of training and with prior learning assessment and recognition.
His graduate degrees are in adult education, with his doctoral thesis focused on the Canadian labour movement as a learning environment. As an extra-mural instructor, he has taught at McMaster, York, Université de Montréal, and University of Toronto.
He has written many academic and professional articles, co-authored the 1991 Educating for a Change, a manual on popular education, and written Thinking Union: Education and activism in Canada's labour movement.