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EDUC 302: Educational Issues and Social Change II: Current Debates (Rev. C4) Report a Broken Link

Textbook

Wotherspoon, T. (2014). The sociology of education in Canada: Critical perspectives (4th ed.). Don Mills ON: Oxford University Press. 

Units 2: Required Readings

The Alberta Teachers’ Association.   (2004). Code of Professional Conduct. Edmonton: The Alberta Teachers’ Association.
The Alberta Teachers’ Association.   (2004). Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers. Edmonton: The Alberta Teachers’ Association.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Dei, G. J. S., & Karumanchery, L. L. (1999). School Reforms in Ontario: The “Marketization of Education” and the Resulting Silence on Equity. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 45(2), 111-131.

The Alberta Teachers' Association.  (1993). Trying To Teach: Interim Report of the Committee on Public Education and Professional Practice as approved by Provincial Executive Council for discussion at the 1993 Annual Representative Assembly. Edmonton: The Alberta Teachers' Association. Retrieved from: http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/Other%20Publications/Pages/TryingtoTeach.aspx

Units 3: Required Readings

Perry, G.  (2003). “A Concession to Circumstances”: Nova Scotia’s “Unlimited Supply” of Women Teachers, 1870–1960. Historical studies in education, 15(2): 327-360. http://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/458/620

Units 4: Required Readings

O’Hara, J., & Treble, P.  (2000, June 26). Abuse of trust: What happened behind the walls of residential church schools is a tragedy that has left native victims traumatized. Maclean’s, 16.
O’Hara, J.  (2000, June 26). No forgiving: Canada's largest churches are reeling under litigation costs arising from their days running native residential schools. Maclean’s, 22.