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| Title: | Educators' Discourses on Student Diversity in Canada
: Context, Policy & Practice |
| Author: | Diane Gérin-Lajoie (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1551303469 : 9781551303468 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press - May 2008 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | EDUCATION: Canada |
This text examines recent changes to the Canadian educational system and their impact on the role of the school -- most significantly how the school must now function as an agent of inclusion for students who are not part of the mainstream school population. Based on the findings of a comprehensive five-year national study sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada -- Current Trends in the Evolution of School Personnel in Canadian Elementary and Secondary Schools -- the contributors examine the daily work activities, working conditions, and the interactions with students in view of recent changes to the educational system and the evolving role of the school. This book challenges the status quo and provides a timely, comprehensive, and critical overview of education and diversity in Canada.
The Issue of Diversity in the Canadian Educational Context; A Cross-sectional Sketch of a Few Demographic Characteristics of Teachers in Canada; The Discourse on Diversity in British Columbia Public Schools: From Difference to In/Difference; "Our School is Like the United Nations": An Examination of How Discourses of Diversity in Schooling Naturalises Whiteness and White Privilege; Student Diversity and Schooling in Metropolitan Toronto: A Comparative Analysis of the Discourses of Anglophone and Francophone School Personnel; The Social Function of the School and the Work Performed by Montreal Teachers in the Context of Quebec Student Integration Policies; Marking Bodies: Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and Inhabiting the Discursive Production of Outstanding "Canadian Education"; What Next? Official Discourse and School Reality.
