Indigenous communities and students have been marginalized by colonial practices, disproportionally referred to special education programs, and encounter systematic prejudice and discrimination in education systems that lack respect for their ways of knowing and being. To disrupt hierarchical practices and structures that enact a hidden curriculum…

Around the globe, inter-group conflict has intensified as natural resources dwindle. Researchers often characterize such conflict in socioeconomic terms. This paper explores the strengths and limitations of current lines of theorization, and offers an alternative framework informed by postcolonial theory. This theoretical exploration is supported…

Canadian institutions of higher education are grappling with decolonization, particularly with how to move beyond decolonial and settler colonial theory and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action to practical and specific strategies for meaningful change in the classroom. To that end, this paper offers a case study of…

Purpose: Problem-based learning (PBL), a relatively novel teaching and learning process in horticulture, was investigated. Proper application of PBL can potentially create a learning context that enhances student learning. Design/Methodology/Approach: Students worked on two complex ill-structured problems: (1) to produce fresh baby greens for a…

If recent years have witnessed the rise of a worldwide phenomenon of reconciliation and apology, so also in the past few decades, and with increasing force since September 11, 2001, the global forum has seen the increased mediatization of spectacles of terror. The present moment is thus characterized by two seemingly contradictory rubrics: the…

School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. Alliances are needed among educators, families, and community groups that value relationship…

The first of two papers constituting a case study of program reformulation in a graduate department of curriculum studies discusses the nature and status of curriculum as a field of study, and the character of program offerings by graduate curriculum faculties composed of diverse academic specialists. (Author/MLF)

Experiences with leadership and power are discussed from the perspectives of four female elementary school principals in Canada and teachers with whom they worked. Findings demonstrate principals' uses of facilitative power and give examples of power as both multidimensional and multidirectional. (SLD)

This case study investigated the capability of school citizen advisory committees to collect, contain, and dissipate conflict. It examined the activities of the Ideal School citizen advisory committee in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1976-77. The committee attempted to block a decision by the school board to move the school to a new location…

This booklet describes a process for creative classroom problem solving that can be adapted to many types of problems. The booklet's five sections correspond to five phases of the problem solving process. Each section begins with a description of the phase and then provides suggestions for using that phase in the classroom. The sections conclude…