Over a three-year collaborative partnership involving university researchers, government curriculum specialists, and school division teams and educators, this post-qualitative study has engaged a diffractive methodology to research pedagogical change in relationship to a renewed provincial curriculum framework in English Language Arts (ELA). In…

This article examines the extent to which the competencies of the 21st century learner are reflected in the learning outcomes within the English language arts curriculum standards documents for the Canadian provinces. Manifest summative content analysis was used to code learning outcomes in accordance with themes derived from the competencies of…

Reviews selected English and language arts curriculum guides in use in five provinces--British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The discussion focuses on the literature sections of the curriculum guides. (SRT)

Summarizes and criticizes report findings. (KS)

Describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Saskatchewan, Canada. (RB)

Discusses the poetry of Canada's native peoples and argues that it deserves a place in the English curriculum. (AA)

This article surveys numbers and types of immigrant children in the provinces of Canada and outlines types of English classes and language programs available to them. Problems include the great variety in quality of classes, organization and funding. (CHK)

Discusses the philosophy for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Alberta, Canada. (RB)

Contains guidelines for the teaching of English and describes the English curriculum in the public elementary and secondary schools of Newfoundland, Canada. (RB)

Lists the objectives for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Prince Edward Island, Canada. (RB)

Discusses the guidelines for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Nova Scotia, Canada. (RB)

Discusses the guidelines for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of New Brunswick, Canada. (RB)

Presents the guidelines used in selecting instructional materials and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Quebec, Canada. (RB)

Discusses the objectives for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Ontario, Canada. (RB)

Discusses the objectives for the teaching of English and describes the English program in the public elementary and secondary schools of Manitoba, Canada. (RB)