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Sá, Creso; Kretz, Andrew; Sigurdson, Kristjan – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2013
Our historical study of Canada's main research university illuminates the overlooked influence of national identities and interests as forces shaping the institutionalization of technology transfer. Through the use of archival sources we trace the rise and influence of Canadian technological nationalism--a response to Canada's perceived dependency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Educational History, Technology Transfer
Hawkins, J. N., Ed.; Yamada, A., Ed.; Yamada, R., Ed.; Jacob, W. J., Ed. – Springer, 2018
"New Directions of STEM Research and Learning in the World Ranking Movement: A Comparative Perspective" illustrates new directions of STEM higher education from the perspective of twenty-first century types of learning outcomes and focuses on need for developing an interdisciplinary approach to STEM higher education reform. It provides…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Trends, Universities, Achievement Rating
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McGregor, Heather E. – History of Education, 2014
For educational historians involved in the representation of Indigenous contexts and peoples, what is the relevance of ethnohistory as a discipline or methodology, and what is lost or gained in using it? This article reviews ethnohistorical literature, and brings it in conversation with literature by Indigenous scholars on research methodologies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, History Instruction, Historians
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Gilroy, Peter – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
Over the last 40 years, teacher education in England has been the focus of a stream of "reforms" with the ultimate aim of placing provision into schools, the justification for such a radical policy being that higher education is alleged to be failing to provide good quality teachers thereby compromising the social and economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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Polka, Walter; Litchka, Peter; Mete, Rosina; Ayaga, Augustine – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
The authors of the article outline a historical review of Catholic education and student enrollment in North America and a recent perspective of Catholic school principals' decision-making and problem-solving preferences. The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an understanding of events which impacted the evolution of Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Principals, Decision Making, Problem Solving
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Laplante, Benoît; Doray, Pierre; Bastien, Nicolas; Chenard, Pierre – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
The 2012 Quebec students' protests against university tuition fees fostered a debate on access to higher education in Quebec, and specifically on the Quebec "educational lag". Using census data, we show that degree-holding is the same among Quebec French-speaking and Ontario English-speaking populations. Using event history analysis, we…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Policy, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Rexe, Deanna – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Using two conceptual frameworks from political science--Kingdon's (2003) multiple streams model and the advocacy coalition framework (Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1993)--this case study examines the detailed history of a major tuition policy change in Ontario in 2004: a tuition freeze. The paper explores the social, political, and economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tuition, Case Studies, Educational Policy
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Hauseman, D. Cameron – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
This comparative study paper seeks to investigate the nature of reported measures of school success currently reported in Ontario with two other Canadian jurisdictions with similar school systems and student populations (Alberta and British Columbia). As education in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia is, for the most part, a government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Indicators, Educational History
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Ewbank, Ann Dutton – School Library Research, 2015
This modified case study examines how the members of the British Columbia Teacher-Librarians' Association (BCTLA), a Provincial Specialist Association (PSA) of the British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF), work together to advocate for strong school library programs headed by a credentialed school librarian. Since 2002, despite nullification…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Librarians, Advocacy
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Mallin, Barry; Bednarczyk, George; Hanson, Dawn – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2016
While the geographic landscape of Manitoba has changed very little since the last review of school psychology in Manitoba was published 15 years ago, the school psychology landscape here has changed considerably, and we continue to be alive, well, and flourishing. Two previous articles in the "Canadian Journal of School Psychology"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Psychology, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
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Jolls, Tessa; Wilson, Carolyn – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2014
"New media" does not change the essence of what media literacy is, nor does it affect its ongoing importance in society. Len Masterman, a UK-based professor, published his ground-breaking books in the 1980's and laid the foundation for media literacy to be taught to elementary and secondary students in a systematic way that is…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Media Literacy, Educational Trends, Educational History
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Marker, Michael – History of Education, 2015
Historians of education wanting to develop culturally responsive historiographies of Indigenous communities should move beyond a reliance on government and church policy documents--with some variegations of testimony from residential school survivors. The unique circumstances of colonisation that were forged by national/settler policies should be…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational History, Oral History, Primary Sources
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Shan, Hongxia – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2015
Since the 1970s, immigrant studies have taken a feminist turn. This paper takes stock of how Canadian adult educators have contributed to this field and vice versa. Through an ethnographic content analysis of [Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education] CASAE proceedings since 2000 and other related scholarly publications, the paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Immigrants
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Bartlett, Nadine A.; Freeze, Trevi B. – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
In the province of Manitoba, Canada, there is a gap between the rhetoric of inclusive education and its practical implementation. In the absence of inclusive educational policies and guidelines, deficit-based approaches such as categorical labels for students who are deemed to have a severe emotional and behavioural disorder, segregated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, Special Education
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Pinto, Laura Elizabeth – Curriculum Journal, 2016
While Ontario has received international accolades for its enactment of province-wide standardised testing upon the formation of the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), a closer look at provincial assessments over a 20-year span reveals successes as well as systemic tensions and fissures. The purpose of this paper is twofold.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Standardized Tests, Educational Quality
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