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Standardized Individuality: Cosmopolitanism and Educational Decision-Making in an Atlantic Canadian Rural Community
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Corbett, Michael J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
With the rise of network society, consumerism, individualization, globalization and contemporary change forces, students are pressured to both perform well in standardized academic assessments while at the same time constructing a non-standard, unique project of the self. I argue that this generates a particular set of place-based tensions for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Rural Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Academic Misconduct within Higher Education in Canada
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Hughes, Julia M. Christensen; McCabe, Donald L. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2006
Despite a plethora of research on the academic misconduct carried out by U.S. high school and undergraduate university students, little research has been done on the academic misconduct of Canadian students. This paper addresses this shortcoming by presenting the results of a study conducted at 11 Canadian higher education institutions between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Maturity (Individuals), Higher Education, Integrity