Canadian Journal of Education back issues from January 2001:
Les stages: un parcours professionnel accompagne
Jan 01, 2001; ... La recherche porte sur l'accompagnement des stagiaires dans les programmes de formation a l'enseignement implantes dans les annees 1990 au Quebec. Elle vise a identifier et a caracteriser les formateurs accompagnant les stagiaires, a decrire leurs contributions et a illustrer le partenariat dans ...
Arthur Lismer: Visionary Art Educator
Jan 01, 2001; ... Angela Nairne Grigor. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 447 pages. ISBN: 0-7735-2295-6 Michael J. Emme, University of Alberta We don't do heroes in Canada. Oh, Pierre Trudeau had his moment (except here in Alberta), and Margaret Atwood is a bit of an anti-hero, but really, ...
Access, inclusion, climate, empowerment (AICE): a framework for gender equity in market-driven education
Jan 01, 2001; ... We present a framework for conceptualizing gender equity, designed around four equity components: Access, Inclusion, Climate, and Empowerment (AICE). Our examination of these components in the current market schooling climate, with particular reference to the situation in Ontario, identifies ...
Toward evidence-based policy for Canadian education/Vers des politques canadiennes d'education fondees sur la recherche
Jan 01, 2001; ... Patrice de Broucker & Arthur Sweetman (Eds.). (2001). Vers des politiques canadiennes d'education fondees sur la recherche. Kingston, ON: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University. 517 pages. ISBN 0-88911-944-9. Claire Lapointe & Gilles Raiche, ...
The business of placing Canadian children and youth "at-risk"
Jan 01, 2001; ... This article examines discourses and practices associated with designating some children and youth as being "at-risk" of academic and social failure in and out of school. To respond effectively to "at-risk" learners requires a refocusing of policy and research, an informed political and ...
Principles for democratic learning in career education
Jan 01, 2001; ... Secondary-level career education, designed to prepare students for their occupational lives, generally adopts a human capital approach to learning. We critique this approach by comparing a range of career-education polices and programs with three key principles for democratic learning. We ...
Pre-service portfolios: a base for professional growth
Jan 01, 2001; ... We studied first-year teachers who had developed professional portfolios in their pre-service program. Data came from two interviews with 11 graduates. Participants valued the portfolio process, most continuing to maintain their professional portfolios and to use aspects of the process with ...
Literacy achievement in small grade 1 classes in high-poverty environments
Jan 01, 2001; ... We explored the influence of three interventions on the literacy achievement of grade-1 students in 10 schools in high poverty environments: small class size, a focus on literacy, and teachers' continuing professional development. Despite the short-term nature of the project, the students made ...
Telling tales: storytelling in the family. 2d ed
Jan 01, 2001; ... Gail de Vos, Merle Harris. & Celia Barker Lottridge. (2003). Telling Tales: Storytelling in the Family (2nd edition, revised and expanded). Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press. 232 pages. ISBN 0-88864-402-7 Ann Patteson, Queen's University In Telling Tales, de Vos, ...
Unlikely allies: Hilda Neatby, Michel Foucault, and the critique of progressive education
Jan 01, 2001; ... Hilda Neatby, the author of So Little for the Mind, which stirred up a national debate about education in the 1950s, finds an unlikely ally in Michel Foucault. Both believe that progressive education, grounded in scientific pedagogy, is a means of domination rather than liberation. Both trace ...
Getting it wrong from the beginning: our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
Jan 01, 2001; ... Egan, Kieran (2002). New Haven: Yale University Press (hardcover), 204 pages. Emery J. Hyslop-Margison, Ball State University On Kieran Egan's view, contemporary education pursues flawed progressivist practices that harm student academic development. Many of these misguided ideas ...
Immigration et diversite a l'ecole: le debat quebecois dans une perspective comparative
Jan 01, 2001; ... McAndrew, Marie (2002). Montreal: les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 263 pages, ISBN 2-7606-1824-2. Guy Bourgeault, Universite de Montreal La rencontre des interets et des preoccupations tant des responsables politiques et des praticiens ou des gens de terrain que des ...
On-line learning: secondary students' first experience
Jan 01, 2001; ... The development of on-line schooling may significantly affect the lives of both students and teachers. This study, conducted in a Canadian on-line secondary school, showed that students were generally satisfied with their first on-line learning experience, although they noted some serious ...
Expectations of Chinese immigrant parents for their children's education: the interplay of Chinese tradition and the Canadian context
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this study, I used qualitative interviews to explore the expectations of the parents in seven Chinese families who had recently immigrated to Canada. These parents grounded their expectations for their children in Chinese tradition, their deeply rooted cultural heritage. Their personal life ...
Home-school communication and expectations of recent Chinese immigrants
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this study, I investigated the nature of communication between home and school in families who recently immigrated to Canada. I used an open-ended questionnaire in interviews of 21 Chinese immigrant families and 19 non-immigrant European-Canadian families. The immigrant parents' pattern of ...
Shifting out of "neutral": beginning teachers' struggles with teaching for social justice
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article we explore the struggles of 12 beginning teachers committed to social justice to define their roles when facilitating classroom discussions of social issues. We discerned five distinct positions about the possibility and desirability of teacher neutrality. To teach for social ...
A case study of an equity program in teacher education: rethinking feminist leadership
Jan 01, 2001; ... Open-ended admission policies to professional education programs, and particularly the admission of candidates with certain types of disabilities, have profound implications for teacher-education programs. Such policies and practices affect the entire educational community, including faculty ...
The pedagogy of the pastor: the formation of the social studies curriculum in Ontario
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Ontario social studies curriculum, developed in the first half of the 20th century, was modelled on the techniques of the Christian pastorate. I use a Foucaultian methodology to argue that this curriculum developed within the students an attitude that formed their thinking as democratic ...
When schools compete: a cautionary tale
Jan 01, 2001; ... Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2000. 342 pages. ISBN 0-8157-2835-2. Rick Sawa, University of Saskatchewan Reformers in education worldwide have shown an interest in deregulating school systems and privatizing schools to achieve ...
Transforming ourselves, transforming the world: an open conspiracy for social change
Jan 01, 2001; ... Brian K. Murphy (1999). Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing; London, U.K., & New York: Zed Books; Ottawa, ON: Inter Pares. 159 pages. ISBN 1-85649-706-2 (hardcover); ISBN 1-85649-707-0 (paper). Jason Doherty, University of Saskatchewan Education, a central theme in community ...
Stability of socio-economic gaps in mathematics and science achievement among Canadian schools
Jan 01, 2001 ... Using Canadian data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, I have examined the stability of within-school socio-economic gaps in mathematics and science achievement. Student characteristics had significant effects on student achievement. School characteristics were at most ...
Chinese voices in a Canadian secondary school landscape
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article, I describe the adjustment experiences of 23 Chinese-speaking, foreign-born high-school students in Vancouver, where they are members of the largest school cultural group. During interviews, participants suggested their large numbers enabled them to reproduce their home community ...
Literacy as situated practice
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article, I examine the early literacy practices of a three-year-old Chinese girl in her family restaurant in an underprivileged community. Her literacy practices indicate that home contexts have a role in shaping emergent literacy. Her unique home literacy experiences, characterized by ...
Coherence and collaboration in teacher education reform
Jan 01, 2001; ... Traditional teacher education programs, frequently criticized for ineffectiveness, are changing at several Canadian universities. A range of literature on reform in teacher education suggests that coherence among program elements and collaborative environments are key features of successful ...
The "public" in public schools: a school board debate
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article I explore the debate about common schooling in an increasingly diverse and less deferential Canada. In a case study, I describe how one school board reacted when dissatisfied parents tried to establish a traditional school. The board rejected two such proposals, consistent with ...
Interactions personnelles et sociales et identite professionnelle
Jan 01, 2001; ... L'objet de cet article est d'examiner la dimension du processus de construction identitaire qui concerne l'identification a autrui. L'analyse des recits de vie d'enseignantes d'experience permet de mettre en evidence des aspects de la structure sociale qui faconnent le devenir des enseignants ...
Entre culture, competence et contenu: la formation fondamentale, un espace a redefinir
Jan 01, 2001; ... Christiane Gohier et Suzanne Laurin (sous la direction de) (2001). Outremont, QC: Les Editions Logiques. 354 pages. ISBN 2-89381-799-8. Diane Saint-Jacques, Universite de Montreal Les auteurs quebecois et europeens que Christiane Gohier et Suzanne Laurin ont convoques dans cet ...
Characteristics of co-operating teachers [Voice of School Advisors study]
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this large-scale study, I have profiled the backgrounds and assumptions of co-operating teachers. The results indicate that teachers have a high state of professional preparedness, a depth of experience not previously documented, an overwhelming desire for feedback, a strong call for ...
Enhancing professional knowledge: a case study of an elementary teacher
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this case study, I report on the teacher development that resulted when an elementary teacher explored multiple intelligences theory (MI theory) and used it as a guide to make decisions about her curriculum planning and classroom practice. Several data collection methods and sources were used ...
Through a class darkly: visual literacy in the classroom [Viewing and Representing in the Middle Years]
Jan 01, 2001; ... "Viewing and Representing in the Middle Years" was a two-year project to investigate visual literacy in the English language arts classrooms of three teachers. These teachers tried a variety of approaches and were generally optimistic about the benefits of the increased inclusion of visual ...
John Dewey's concept of the student
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article, I have examined Dewey's concept of the student through the lens of his poetry and prose to show that his poetry clarifies his prose. I have devoted special attention to a study of Dewey's poetry to reveal his belief that students are more fragile than his prose suggests and that ...
Girls (and boys) and technology (and toys)
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this inquiry, I have examined how 11- to 14-year-old students used technology to design and produce toys. While most students created toys by hand, I explored the range of computer use, and male and female students' views of this integrated unit. In addressing three specific research ...
Canadian identity and curriculum theory: an ecological, postmodern perspective
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this article, we develop the thesis that curriculum studies work in Canada might be characterized in terms of some persistent and consistent theoretical commitments, ones that we suggest might have been prompted in part by the nation's history and by popular commentaries on national identity ....
A treaty right to education
Jan 01, 2001; ... In the 1870s, representatives of the Crown and First Nations negotiated Treaties 1 to 7. Each included provision for education. This study focuses on the intent and expectations of education as a treaty right by the original signatories and the current divergent understandings. Today First ...