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Contested classrooms : education, globalization, and democracy in Alberta / edited by Trevor W. Harrison and Jerrold L. Kachur.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Political aspects--Alberta.
- Education.
- Education and state--Alberta.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press : Parkland Institute, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Public Education, Globalization, and Democracy: Whither Alberta?; Globalization and Educational Change; 1 Passing Fancies: Educational Changes in Alberta; 2 Constructing the Perpetual Learner: Education, Technology, and the New Economy; 3 The ""Alberta Advantage"": For Whom?; 4 The Marketing of the University; The Politics of Educational Restructuring in Alberta; 5 Orchestrating Delusions: Ideology and Consent in Alberta; 6 Re-Investment Fables: Educational Finances in Alberta; 7 Deep and Brutal: Funding Cuts to Education in Alberta
- 8 From Boardroom to Classroom: School Reformers in Alberta9 Privatizing Public Choice: The Rise of Charter Schooling in Alberta; 10 Challenging Restructuring: The Alberta Teachers' Association; Re-organizing Schools: Scenes from the Classrooms; 11 Is it Just a Matter of Time? Part-Time Teaching Employment in Alberta; 12 Board Games: The New (But Old) Rules; 13 The Principalship at the Crossroads; Conclusion; Appendices
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4593-0361-X
- 1-4175-9322-9
- OCLC:
- 951202895
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