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Bowlby, Jeffrey W.; McMullen, Kathryn – 2002
This report presents findings from the 2000 Youth in Transition Survey 18-20-year-old cohort, which documents Canadian youth education and labor market experiences. By age 20, most youth had graduated from high school, and 70 percent were participating in postsecondary education. Dropout rates were higher for males than females. High school…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Planning, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Jones, Charles; Clark, Linn; Grusec, Joan; Hart, Randle; Plickert, Gabriele; Tepperman, Lorne – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
The experience of long-term poverty affects many child outcomes, in part through a family stress process in which poverty is considered to be one of the major factors causing family dysfunction, depression among caregivers and inadequate parenting. Recent scholarship extends the classical Family Stress Model by researching the ways in which…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Parenting Styles, Caregivers
Smith, Dorothy E.; Dobson, Stephan – 2003
Researchers explored the relationships between the great working class communities and the industries they sustained and were sustained by in terms of production, storage, and transmission of skills. First, the ethnographic literature on industrial workplaces and the working class communities associated with them was reviewed. Next, lengthy…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
Marrin, Mary; Grant, Linda R.; Adamson, Gary; Craig, Allan; Squire, Frances A. – 1999
The Ontario College of Teachers licenses, governs, and regulates teaching practice. Its mandate includes providing leadership in developing standards of practice. This paper examines the mandate of the Standards of Practice and Education Committee and work of the staff in the Standards of Practice and Education Unit. After describing development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development

Harris, Carol E. – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Explores the beliefs, assumptions, and values held by a group of Canadian music educators about the supports and barriers facing their programs. Assumes that educators' knowledge is socially constructed as well as holistic and mythic. Identifies four myths (aptitude and achievement, talent, process, and equal opportunity) that influence music…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Experience, Educational Quality
Pelletier, Janette; Corter, Carl – Multicultural Education, 2005
The focus of this article is a research and development project underway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The project is Toronto First Duty, reflecting that the "first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well-housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion," according to 19th century…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Kindergarten, Child Rearing
Latham, Gary; Latham, Soosan D.; Whyte, Glen – Journal of Management Education, 2004
Many full-time MBA programs limit their effectiveness by clinging to functionalism. At best, they have made incremental changes to meet the market demand for MBA graduates. These changes, in most cases, have failed to integrate the various functional facets of complex business challenges. For insights into how to do so, many business schools need…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Business Administration, Educational Principles, Educational History
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
McAdams, Richard P. – 1993
On most international comparisons of educational achievement, United States' schools fare poorly. A closer look at how several foreign countries educate their children, as well as the political process for setting educational policies, suggests a multitude of initiatives that could be profitably adapted to the American educational system. A survey…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Federal/Provincial Consumer Education and Plain Language Task Force (Canada). – 1991
Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students function effectively within the rapidly changing…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Conservation (Environment), Consumer Education, Consumer Science
Schwier, Richard A., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This document offers a view of educational change that has educational technology at the center of the process and underscores some of the contributions educational technology can make to reforming education in Saskatchewan (Canada). The province has an excellent teaching force and communities that value education highly, but there is a prevailing…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation, Distance Education
Harvey, Dexter; Cap, Orest – 1987
The Elderly Service Workers' Training Project (ESWTP) was designed to identify the problems encountered by human service workers in their daily contact with older adults. A needs assessment (mail survey and structured personal interview) was conducted throughout Manitoba to identify and document the scope of human service workers' on-the-job…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Authoring Aids (Programing), Client Characteristics (Human Services), Computer Assisted Instruction

Harvey, Dexter; Cap, Orest – 1987
This manual is intended to assist instructors and facilitators in making effective use of the instructional modules of the Elderly Service Workers' Training Project (ESWTP) and provide technical development information regarding the ESWTP authoring system. (ESWTP training materials have been developed to help human services personnel understand…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Authoring Aids (Programing), Behavioral Objectives, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Harvey, Dexter; Cap, Orest – 1987
This learning module, which is part of a three-block series intended to help human service workers develop the skills necessary to solve the problems encountered in their daily contact with elderly clients of different cultural backgrounds, deals with communication and adjustment from the standpoint of the cultural heritage of elderly Native…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Aging (Individuals), Canada Natives, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1981
This guide, the first in a series of eight, provides an outline and overview of the K-12 social studies curriculum of Manitoba, Canada. The first part of the guide presents brief sections on the rationale, selection of content, evaluation, time allotment within the program, and scope and sequence. The bulk of the guide contains abstracts of…
Descriptors: Community Role, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education