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Hébert, Cristyne; LeNouail, Kent – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2023
In Saskatchewan, school divisions have been largely tasked with creating classroom-based assessment policy as, until very recently, the province lacked a current, Ministry-produced guiding document. Using an inductive and qualitative approach to summative content analysis, informed by a policy analysis framework, this project focused on school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Summative Evaluation
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Bell, Nancy; Tarc, Paul; Schecter, Sandra R.; Racco, Alyssa; Tang, Haoming – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2023
This study illuminates the current policy and practice dynamics and tensions of school internationalization in the province of Ontario generated by the increasing presence of international students at the secondary school level, identified as early study abroad (ESA) students. It conducts a comparative thematic analysis of a set of interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Global Approach, Secondary Schools
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Jill Morris; Jean-Claude Couture; Anne M. Phelan – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
In this article we question the discursive deployment of narrowing conceptions of the future in education in three provincial cases: Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. Asserting that educational policy in Canada is grounded in the "future-logics" of educational innovation--reflective of an anticipatory orientation to governance--we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Schmid, Jeanette; Morgenshtern, Marina; Turton, Yasmin – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Because dominant social work is mismatched to many contexts, alternative practice and educational approaches have emerged. To highlight educational examples, this phenomenological study explores the experience of 28 Canadian and South African educators teaching alternative social work. These educators conceptualized a multidimensional, integrated,…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Ellis, Jason – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2021
This article looks at fifty years' worth (1970-2020) of public K-12 education expenditure data from the Canadian province of British Columbia. It asks if spending has increased or decreased in this period and examines the causes and correlates of spending changes. Previous research has tended to assume that spending has decreased during this…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance
Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2021
Purpose: The goal of this session is to provide an in-depth account of the history and development of contract cheating in Canada over the past 50+ years. You will also learn about the one and only (failed) attempt at legislation to make ghostwritten essays and exams illegal in Canada. Method: The content of this session is drawn from Eaton's book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cheating, Contracts, Outsourcing
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Pamela Mellon; Genevieve Montemurro; Samuel Yang; Lauren Sulz; Brian Torrance; Kate Storey – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Sleep deprivation is common among children and schools are ideal settings in which to influence children's sleep. Children spend a significant amount of time at school during key developmental periods, and programmes that influence students' well-being also benefit academic achievement. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is an approach…
Descriptors: Sleep, Health Promotion, School Role, Elementary Schools
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Kenneth H. MacKinnon – Journal of School Leadership, 2024
In Ontario, Canada, principals' work is guided by competencies outlined in the Ontario Leadership Framework which reflect the leadership skills and behaviours needed to successfully lead schools, improve student achievement and well-being. The problem is that this document largely ignores equity and anti-oppressive leadership behaviours. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Styles
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Marie-Eve Bouchard – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Teachers play an essential role in fostering linguistic security in their classrooms. The aim of this study is to identify the language ideologies articulated by teachers in the Francophone schools of the English-dominant context of British Columbia (Canada) in order to explore how the different practices they implement to foster the use of French…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, French, English (Second Language)
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Mifsud, Denise, Ed.; Day, Stephen P., Ed. – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2023
This edited book provides a critical re-reading of the concept of teacher education, in addition to a re-thinking of the sole focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE), with implications for education policy, theory, and practice. This book presents new investigations that explore the concept of teacher education from ITE to retirement and how this…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Career Development, Educational Practices, Policy Formation
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Aiello, Paola; Pace, Erika Marie; Sharma, Umesh; Rangarajan, Rashmi; Sokal, Laura; May, Fiona; Gonzalez Gil, Francisca; Loreman, Tim; Malak, Saiful; Martín, Elena; McIlroy, Anne-Marie; Schwab, Susanne – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
An appreciative inquiry approach oriented eight semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers from Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Italy, Spain, Canada, Bangladesh and India to identify their intrinsic and extrinsic strengths and understand how they were able to translate them into practice during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Rebeca Heringer; Melanie Janzen – Critical Education, 2023
The enactment of the Education Modernization Act by the government of Manitoba in early 2021 proposed several structural changes to the governance and delivery of provincial education. The related documents had a strong emphasis on improving the achievement of all students, making them future-ready and strengthening parental involvement. But…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Diversity
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Esther Maeers; Jane Hewes; Monica Lysack; Pam Whitty – in education, 2022
In Canada, multiple, intersecting, and incommensurable narratives promote investment in a public ECEC system. These dominant narratives are typically justified through an entanglement of discourses, including gender equity, colonialism, developmentalism, investment in children as future workers, and childcare as social infrastructure. With…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Golden, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2020
This paper aims to survey the current landscape of education policy evaluation across OECD countries and economies by examining recent trends and contextual factors that can promote more robust education policy evaluation, as well as identifying key challenges. It takes a view of policy evaluation as an activity that takes place throughout the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Evaluation, Educational Trends, Educational Change
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Snoddon, Kristin – Language Policy, 2021
The Deaf Ontario Now movement of 1988 called for more hiring of deaf teachers and the full implementation of American Sign Language (ASL) across the curriculum in schools with deaf students. In 1989, the "Review of Ontario Education Programs for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" recommended that ASL become a language of instruction at…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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