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Download full textHumber, William – College Quarterly, 2010
NIMBYism, the popular and short form for "Not In My Back Yard", describes the resistance and outright opposition by residents, either within a distinct place such as a neighbourhood, or, more broadly, in a larger civic area right up to a town or city level, against some planned nearby facility, service, or changed land use. NIMBYism is also about…
Descriptors: Land Use, Ethics, Environmental Influences, Neighborhoods
Fedderson, Kim – College Quarterly, 2008
In this article, the author discusses the problems facing Ontario's community colleges' faculty as educators whose "craft" is to teach. The author contends that the problems educators face haven't really been the focus of the three constituencies that have dominated the conversations about the colleges: (1) college management; (2) the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, State Government, Community Colleges
Quint-Rapoport, Mia – College Quarterly, 2006
In this essay the author discusses the effects of globalization on Canadian community colleges. She applies contemporary social theories culled from the fields of feminism, geography and political science to understand one hidden manifestation of globalization in community colleges: involvement in global civil society via participation in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Economic Climate, Social Theories
