Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Busting Bureaucracy to Reclaim Our Schools
In this book, the author argues that the bureaucratization of schooling has interfered with the process of education. The costs, complexity, and rigidity of the educational edifice leaves it unresponsive to parental concerns and reluctant to measure its own inadequacies such as illiteracy and high dropout rates among students. The author identifies two conceptual bases for action to address this problem: public choice theory and agency theory, discusses the issue of identity in its relation to education, and then makes the case for charter schools in Canada, stressing definitions of community, parental rights, and the need to combat bureaucratic tendencies. Two discussants respond to the author's analysis, one amplifying his call for charter schools and the other arguing that the basis for demanding reform is less clear than the author claims.
Developing Technology Managers in the Pacific Rim
Offering an approach outside the mainstream of Management of Technology (MOT) thought, the objective of this text is to inform decision-makers, policy-makers and educators/students about the range of management technology, policies and programmes in each region.
Achieving Sustainable Development
Achieving Sustainable Development explores how well Canada has met the Earth Summit's targets and attempts to find ways in which the public can become involved in such issues. Its authors stress the importance of integration of information from various fields and seek to stimulate the exchange of knowledge among the academic community, government, non-governmental organizations and industry. The contributors look far beyond merely identifying and analyzing selected issues and problems. To facilitate public discussion and to affect policy development, at least one initiative is proposed and detailed for each problem identified.
Overdue Assignment
None
Senate Reform Proposals in Comparative Perspective
"This paper reviews a representative selection of major proposals for reform of the Canadian Senate, in order to take stock of what has been achieved during the several cycles of public and political interest thus far provoked by this issue. ... Following a historical overview of Canadian Senate reform initiatives, this paper compares a representative selection of major reform proposals under four headings: method of selection, electoral system, distribution of seats and powers. A concluding section on evolving views of the purpose of the Canadian Senate makes some general observations about the shifting assumptions and expectations among Canadians in the various regions concerning the Senate"--Introduction.
World Science Report 1993
This present issue is made up of four major parts. The first is a collection of essays which together constitute an informative and thoughtprovoking review of the state of science and technology in various regions of the world. The second part describes how scientific R & D is organized who carries it out, where and with what means. International partnership and cooperation are discussed in part 3, while the fourth part carries overviews of recent developments in the basic sciences. The report concludes with an appendix of statistical tables on national and regional scientific activity and manpower.
