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Butler, Jesse K.; Kane, Ruth G.; Morshead, Christopher E. – Urban Education, 2017
White Canadian teacher candidates are brought into direct dialogue with urban high school students through a yearlong immersion in a high school with a "demonized" image in the broader community. Interviews with students reveal experiences of school as "my safe space" and the predominance of a student culture not characterized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, High Schools, Student Attitudes
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Oplatka, Izhar – Urban Education, 2007
The current study aimed at exploring the perceived significance of promotional events in secondary schools among Canadian parents, their children, and teachers and at determining the influence of these events on the school-choice process and school life. The findings suggest that both teachers and families displayed apparently contradictory…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes