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Passing the Test
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No More Teachers, No More Books
Heather-jane Robertson has been tracking the dismantling of public education in Canada for more than a decade. In "No More Teachers, No More Books, she reports on developments that will come as a shock to many people who may think that the commercialization of education is just a theory, not a reality.
Is There a National Role in Education?
Papers in this volume are from a symposium on issues associated with a national presence in Canadian educational systems. The papers provide an overview of the rich and multi-faceted dimensions that guide and challenge Canadian educators in the current national policy debate. The first paper argues in favour of the traditional decentralised system of education, with a national role accomplished through initiation of dialogue and promotion of greater coherence at all levels. The second argues for a more legitimised and formalised national role in education, particularly as it relates to the federal government. The third explores the possibility of a common educational purpose in Canada and draws conclusions relating to culture, purpose, and curriculum. The final paper explores the critical linkages between economics and education, notably the relationship between educational levels and economic prosperity.
Reforming Education
Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota. The book looks at a variety of reforms covering: school choice; charter schools; increased testing of students; stricter curriculum guidelines; and local school management. Drawing from theoretical and empirical work in education, political theory, organizational theory and public administration, Reforming Education provides a clearly developed conceptual framework of analyzing reform programs. The author reviews the political origins of the reforms, the process of adoption into law, the implementation processes used to support the reforms and the results of the reforms for students, schools and communities.
Just Who Do We Think We Are?
Drawing upon diverse and specific examples of self-study, described here by the practitioners themselves, this unique book formulates a methodological framework for self-study in education. This collection brings together a diverse and international range of self-studies carried out in teacher education, each of which has a different perspective to offer on issues of method and methodology, including: * memory work * fictional practice * collaborative autobiography * auto-ethnography * phenomenology * image-based approaches. Such ethical issues likely to arise from self-study as informed consent, self-disclosure and crises of representation are also explored with depth and clarity. As method takes centre stage in educational and social scientific research, and self-study becomes a key tool for research, training, practice and professional development in education, Just Who Do We Think We Are? provides an invaluable resource for anyone undertaking this form of practitioner research.
A New Education Politics
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Politics of Money PART I FIGHTING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT Chapter Premier Bob's Coalition Chapter 2 The Social Contract Juggernaut Chapter 3 Digging In For Battle PART 11 TOWARDS A NEW EDUCATION POLITICS: A REPONSE TO THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON LEARNING Introduction Chapter 4 Finding the Money Chapter 5 Democracy vs Central Control Chapter 6 The Struggle for Curriculum
That's Funny You Don't Look Like A Teacher!
How children and popular culture perceive the teacher.
I Feel Great about My Hands
Forty-one notable women, all over fifty, provide essays and poems about the discoveries that come from aging.
Contested Classrooms
Education has become a battlefield, the classroom the arena where the contest is fought. The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, the federal government's Millennium Scholarship, and a wave of protests across the country are among the signals that the war is heating up. Alberta stands as a Canadian model of radical education reform, propelled by economic necessity. But is all reform necessarily right or good?-and who decides? A range of commentators-teachers, scholars, parents, and others-discuss the conflict in Alberta's schools.
Curriculum Politics, Policy, Practice
Studies the intersections of curriculum politics and policy-making throughout the world.
