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| Title: | Contested Classrooms
: Education, Globalization, & Democracy in Alberta |
| Author: | Trevor Harrison & Jerrold Kachur (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0888643152 : 9780888643155 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 150x215mm |
| Pages: | 191 |
| Weight: | .351 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - March 1999 |
| List Price: | 13.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | EDUCATION: Alberta |
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.
Introduction: Public Education, Globalisation, and Democracy: Whither Alberta?; Passing Fancies: Educational Changes in Alberta; Constructing the Perpetual Learner: Education, Technology, and the New Economy; The "Alberta Advantage": For Whom?; The Marketing of the University; Orchestrating Delusions: Ideology and Consent in Alberta; Re-Investment Fables: Educational Finances in Alberta; Deep and Brutal: Funding Cuts to Education in Alberta; From Boardroom to Classroom: School Reformers in Alberta; Challenging Restructuring: The Alberta Teachers' Association; Is it just a Matter of Time? Part-Time Teaching Employment in Alberta; Board Games: The New (But Old) Rules; The Principalship at the Crossroads; Conclusion.
