Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Education:
From "I'm not a feminist!" to CASWE President: Reflecting on Space(s), Time(ing), and His(Her)-Story
Oct 01, 2008; ... For this personal narrative, I have used Applebaum and Boyd's (2000) work on developing a critical sense of dominance to detail my journey of initial resistance to being labeled a feminist, to my growing recognition of power and privilege within educational institutions, to my active role as ...
La dynamique de l'engagement chez des étudiantes en formation des maîtres analysée sous l'angle des états identitaires
Oct 01, 2008; ... L'engagement est un facteur important d'affirmation identitaire sur le plan professionnel. Dans le cadre d'une étude portant sur la construction de l'identité professionnelle d'enseignants en formation des maÎtres et des moyens curriculaires y contribuant, une analyse qualitative des données a ...
Regard parental sur les devoirs et les leçons et fonction des caractéristiques familiales et du rendement de l'élève
Oct 01, 2008; ... L'étude s'intéresse à certains aspects des devoirs et des leçons par l'entremise d'analyses menées à partir de regroupements de familles en fonction de la structure familiale, de la scolarité des parents et du rendement scolaire de l'enfant. L'échantillon est composé de 465 parents d'élèves de ...
Back to the Basics: Socio-Economic, Gender, and Regional Disparities in Canada's Educational System
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study reassessed the extent to which socio-economic background, gender, and region endure as sources of educational inequality in Canada. The analysis utilized the 28,000 student Canadian sample from the data set of the OECD's 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ....
Give Peace a Chance: The Diminution of Peace in Global Education in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study surveyed the literature on peace and global education in secondary schools to explore the position of peace education within the global education field. To create a database from Canada, the United States, and Britian, this article includes secondary studies from professional and ...
Educational Needs and Barriers for African Refugee Students in Manitoba
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study investigated the educational needs and barriers for diverse African refugee students in two inner-city high schools in Manitoba. Forty African refugee students, two principals, eight teachers, four parents, and four community leaders participated in the study. Five focus groups, ...
Global Education in Canadian Elementary Schools: An Exploratory Study
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article reports on the implementation of global education in Canadian elementary schools. Curriculum analysis and 76 interviews at school, ministry, and district levels revealed limited coordination among ministry, district and NGO efforts and little support for curriculum development and ...
Organized Agents: Canadian Teacher Unions as Alternative Sites for Social Justice Activism
Oct 01, 2008; ... Historically teachers' federations have been some of the major organizational sites for social justice leadership in K-12 public education. Despite this history of activism, social justice teacher unionism remains a relatively underdeveloped concept. This article merges four philosophical ...
Benchmarks of Historical Thinking: First Steps
Oct 01, 2008; ... Although historical thinking has been the subject of a substantial body of recent research, few attempts explicitly apply the results on a large scale in North America. This article, a narrative inquiry, examines the first stages of a multi-year, Canada-wide project to reform history education ...
Building Place: Students' Negotiation of Spaces and Citizenship in Schools
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study explored how high school students negotiate school spaces beyond the classroom within a broader context of citizenship education and identity construction. Using visual hermeneutics, researchers worked over three years with students and staff in a large, diverse, urban, public high ...
Narrowing the Literacy Gap: What Works in High-Poverty Schools
Oct 01, 2008; ... Diane M. Barone. (2006). Narrowing the Literacy Gap: What Works in High-Poverty Schools. New York: The Guilford Press. 195 pages. ISBN-10: 1-59385-277-0 (hardcover); -10: 1-59385-276-2 (paperback). The significant correlation between poverty and literacy has been well documented in the ...
Making Sense of Methods in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Presence
Oct 01, 2008; ... Anne Hill. (2006). Making Sense of Methods in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Presence. Toronto: Rowman & Little-field Education. 149 pages. ISBN: 1-57886-315-5 (hardback); 1-57886-316-3 (paperback) Refreshing qualities about this book were that - Anne Hill has been a Canadian educator ...
The Literacy Principal: Leading, Supporting, and Assessing Reading and Writing Initiatives (2nd ed)
Oct 01, 2008; ... David Booth and Jennifer Rowsell. (2007). The Literacy Principal: Leading, Supporting, and Assessing Reading and Writing Initiatives (2nd ed). Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers Limited. 159 pages. ISBN: 978-1-55138-216-6 In April 2008 the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) ...
Tools for Matching Readers to Texts: Research-based Practices
Oct 01, 2008; ... H. A. Mesmer. (2008). Tools for Matching Readers to Texts: Research-based Practices. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN-13: 978-1-59385-597-0 (pbk); ISBN-10: 1-59358-597-4 (pbk); 180 pages; Full name: Heidi Anne E. Mesmer Divided into two sections, this book, which provides an overview of ...
Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning
Oct 01, 2008; ... Peter Jarvis. (2006). Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning. New York: Routledge. 218 pages. ISBN: 0-415-35541-9 Peter Jarvis, an internationally renowned expert in the field of adult learning and continuing education, examines a wide variety of theories from the perspective ...
RÔLE MÉDIATEUR DE LA COMPÉTENCE DE L'ENFANT À L'ENTRÉE À L'ÉCOLE DANS LA RELATION ENTRE LES CARACTÉRISTIQUES FAMILIALES ET SON ADAPTATION SCOLAIRE
Jul 01, 2008; ... Cette étude vérifie le rôle médiateur des compétences de l'enfant à l'entrée à l'école, dans la relation entre les caractéristiques familiales (environnement et soutien) et l'adaptation scolaire (rendement scolaire et compétence sociale). Les 315 familles ont été évaluées au début de la ...
LES CONNAISSANCES MATHÉMATIQUES ET DIDACTIQUES CHEZ LES FUTURS MAÎTRES DU PRIMAIRE : QUATRE CAS À L'ÉTUDE
Jul 01, 2008; ... Les futurs enseignants et enseignantes présentent de nombreuses lacunes dans l'apprentissage de la didactique des mathématiques, lesquelles sont souvent accentuées par des attitudes négatives véhiculées face aux mathématiques. Ces lacunes et ces attitudes ne sont pas sans conséquence quant à ...
"Education will get you to the station": MARGINALIZED STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF MERIT IN ACCESSING UNIVERSITY
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article explores how four minority students in a university access program reconciled their presence on merit. They shared their experiences over two years through their application statements, life history interviews, weekly group sessions, and personal journal entries. Consistent with the ...
EDUCATIONAL PRIOROTIES AND CAPACITY: A RURAL PERSPECTIVE
Jul 01, 2008; ... This study examined the congruence between the priorities of the Manitoba government's Kindergarten to Senior 4 (K-S4) Education Agenda for Student Success and priorities of stakeholders in a rural Manitoba school division, and the division's capacity to achieve them. Capacity included three ...
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: EMANCIPATORY POSSIBILITIES IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Jul 01, 2008; ... In this article, I argue that emancipatory possibilities for Mäori, the Indigenous people of New Zealand, rely on structural changes that enable them to have control over resources, decision making, and meaning, and that emancipation is a journey traveled by oppressed groups as they exercise ...