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Shahzad, Farhat – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Students' memories and learning strategies are situated in their social relationships, political orientations, cultural meanings, worldviews, and historical experiences. This study uses qualitative research methods to investigate how Canadian students remember and learn about the War on Terror. It deals with the narratives of ninety-nine students…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Qualitative Research, Urban Universities, Research Methodology
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Dippo, Don – Teaching Education, 2005
This paper begins with the observation that, for a variety of social, political, and economic reasons, many universities are beginning to rethink the nature of their relations with local communities and asks about the place of Faculties of Education in such processes of reconsideration. It describes recent initiatives at York University as…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Roberts, John P. L. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Arts advocacy groups have managed to influence Canadian public policy and government priorities during a time of economic difficulty and have produced significant outcomes for the arts community. Legislation to establish an umbrella, national arts agency was defeated following criticism from arts groups. Advocacy groups will have to assume an even…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art, Artists, College Faculty