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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Canadian Colleges: Examining Definitions and Unveiling Perceptions
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Merli Tamtik; Puvi Balasubramaniam – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) through strategic policy development has been at the forefront of institutional change, especially within the higher education sector. Canadian colleges have a large equity-seeking student population due to their open admission structure, but despite this, there are implicit biases and actions that impede…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Ambiguous Belonging and the Challenge of Inclusion: Parent Perspectives on School Membership
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Scorgie, Kate – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2015
Boundary ambiguity occurs when members of a family are confused or uncertain regarding roles, responsibilities and subsystem configurations within the family. Research suggests that perception of boundary ambiguity is associated with family stress despite internal and external resource availability. It has been suggested that research on family…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Inclusion, Parent Attitudes, Interviews
Inclusion's Confusion in Alberta
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Gilham, Chris; Williamson, W. John – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
This hermeneutic paper interprets a recent series of reforms to inclusive education policy undertaken by the ministry of education in the province of Alberta, Canada. A 2007 Alberta Education review of the 16,000 student files in the province that school boards had claimed met the criteria for severe disability codification status -- the level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Hermeneutics, Educational Change