Reviewer Introduction

Sue Folinsbee has been intimately involved in workforce and workplace literacy since the mid 1980s. She has taken on a variety of roles during this time, both in terms of organisational leadership and consulting work. She spent many years working at the front end, to plan and set up workplace literacy programs in a variety of workplaces across Canada. She works with a variety of partners including unions, employers, all levels of government, and literacy organisations.

In the late 1980s and 1990s she developed and offered some of the first practitioner training institutes for workplace literacy in Ontario, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories.

One of her most enlightening and interesting experiences is as an ethnographer. She spent six months on the factory floor of a textile factory examining and making sense of the literacy practices that workers and managers used. As a result of that work, she is one of five co-authors of the book Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace.

She is currently involved in a variety of projects that focus on workforce and workplace literacy and other areas of literacy and adult learning.

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