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Download full textFreeman, Stanley L., Jr. – 1981
If awareness and understanding of Canada, its people, and its culture are to be achieved, the study of this country must be made an appropriate part of the social studies and humanities curricula. This document provides teachers with resource materials on 13 topics about Canada: (1) topics and themes for Canadian Studies; (2) reasons why U.S.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
Mitchell, Laura; Livingstone, D. W. – 2002
The informal learning practices of bank branch workers were examined in a study of a major Canadian bank. The study included ethnographic fieldwork and secondary analysis of a national survey of branch workers' learning practices during the introduction of a new financial services software system. Activity theory was used to examine workers'…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Banking, Data Analysis
Haig-Brown, Celia – 2000
To take community seriously in the conduct of educational research, the researcher should consider taking down epistemological walls and the "real" ones that confine the processes and products of academic labor to artificially isolated settings. Epistemologically, the question of walls relates to the kinds of knowledge competed over,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Canada Natives, Chippewa (Tribe), Colleges
Peer reviewedVerner, Coolie – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1978
Graduate professional education programs in adult education have grown, but adult education has not been accepted as a distinct field of social practice and as a social science discipline. Presuppositions of the field, professional leadership roles, and criteria for research and for the selection and adaptation of knowledge are covered. (SW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
PDF pending restorationHouwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1978
Information for this inventory of research into higher education in Canada was obtained from a survey of 1800 persons in universities, community colleges, associations, and government departments. A total of 308 projects are reported and are classified under six headings: general; administration, finance and manpower; curriculum and teaching;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Bibliographies, College Students
PDF pending restorationHouwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1979
A total of 263 research, innovative, and experimental projects are described that are concerned with postsecondary education in Canada and that are currently in progress or have been completed in the course of 1978. The information was obtained from a questionnaire mailed to some 1900 potential contributors in universities, community colleges,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, College Administration, College Curriculum
