Curriculum Reform in Ontario : 'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities / Laura Elizabeth Pinto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinto, Laura Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Secondary--Curricula--Ontario--Planning--Case studies.

Education, Secondary.

Curriculum planning--Ontario--Case studies.

Curriculum planning.

Education and state--Ontario--Case studies.

Education and state.

Curriculum change--Ontario.

Curriculum change.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally. Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university professor, author Laura Elizabeth Pinto is uniquely positioned to tackle the key issues of policy formulation: the politics and tensions among different policy actors; the relationships between democracy in education and in policy formation; and the hidden role of privatization. Based on interviews with key policy actors, including ministry bureaucrats, curriculum policy writers, stakeholder consultation participants, and political staffers, Curriculum Reform in Ontario provides a critique of conventional policy formulation processes. Pinto also suggests possibilities for more participatory approaches to policy formulation that can better support the critical role played by schools in creating democratic societies."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface

The ideal of critical-democrative policy production

The politics of 'Common Sense' policy production

Restructuring education

Hidden privatization in the institutional culture: policy actors, of 'Hired Guns'?

Policy writers, power and politicization: were the books already cooked

Citizen (dis)engagements in selection and consultations

Perceived policy outcomes and their absence of democracy

An exploration of possibilities: Porto Alegre, Brazil as an analytic foil contrasting Ontario

Conclusion

Appendix A: policy actor profiles

Appendix B: understanding and participating in curriculum change

Appendix C: ministry of education organization chart, 1999

Appendix D: policy formulation timeline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6158-5

1-4426-6155-0

OCLC:

799730300