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EDST 635: Foundations of Education in Canada Report a Broken Link

Textbook

Noonan, Brian, Dianne Hallman & Murray Scharf. (2006). A history of education in Saskatchewan: Selected readings. Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Centre.

Week 1

Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. (2008, October). Report one: The education systems in Canada—facing the challenges of the 21st century. In The development of education—reports for Canada (pp. 7–33).

Week 2

Wotherspoon, T. (2007). The challenge to maintain a strong public education system in Saskatchewan. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 
McRoberts, K. (2001). Canada and the multinational state. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 34(4), 683–713. 
Edgerton, J. D., Peter, T., & Roberts, J. W. (2008). Back to the basics: Socio-economic, gender, and regional disparities in Canada’s educational system. Canadian Journal of Education, 31(4), 861–888. 
Taylor, D. (2008). Border within borders: Ontario’s Canadian and world studies curriculum. Journal of Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, 6(2), 82–96.

Week 3

No online readings

Week 4

No online readings

Week 5

No online readings

Week 6

Neegan, E. (2005). Excuse me: Who are the first peoples of Canada? A historical analysis of Aboriginal education in Canada then and now. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 9(1), 3–15. 

Week 7

Silver, J., & Mallett, K. (2002). Aboriginal education in Winnipeg inner city high schools. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 
Wotherspoon, T. (2002). The dynamics of social inclusion: Public education and Aboriginal people in Canada. Laidlaw Foundation.
Henchey, N. (2005) Moving forward in Aboriginal education: Proceedings of a national policy roundtable. Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education. 

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Week 8

Reading week

Week 9

McLeod, K. A. (1979). Politics, schools and French language, 1881–1931. In D. C. Jones, N. M. Sheehan, & R. M. Stamp (Eds.), Shaping the schools of the Canadian west (pp. 59–83). Detselig Enterprises. 

Week 10

Behiels, M. D. (2004). Canada's Francophone minority communities: Constitutional renewal and the winning of school governance. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 

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Skim the entire book and read the following chapters:

  • Introduction, pp. xxi–3

  • The Renaissance of Canada’s Francophone Minority Communities, pp. 3–52.

  • The Battle for Constitutional Recognition and Empowerment, pp. 53–82.

  • Competing Conceptions of Dualism: Confronting the Meech Lake Accord, pp. 245–285.

  • The Canada Round: A Clash of Nationalisms, pp. 285–325.

  • The Past Is Prologue, pp. 325–330. (Read after introduction.)
Hayday, M. (2005). A new equilibrium: Official-languages discourse and Canadian national identity. In Bilingual today, united tomorrow: Official languages in education and Canadian federalism (pp. 168–185). McGill-Queen’s University Press. 

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Week 11

Pitsula, J. M. (2001). Unlikely allies: Hilda Neatby, Michel Foucault, and the critique of progressive education. Canadian Journal of Education, 26(4), 383–400. 
Popkewitz, T. S. (2007). Alchemies and governing: Or, questions about the questions we ask. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39(1), 64–83. 
Kymlicka, W. (2007). Chapter 2: The shifting international context: From post-war universal human rights to post-cold war minority rights. In Multicultural odysseys: Navigating the new international politics of diversity (pp. 27–55). Oxford University Press. 

Week 12

Brown, W. (2003). Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy. Theory & Event, 7(1). 
Dehli, K. (2004). Parental involvement and neo-liberal government: Critical analysis of contemporary education reforms. Canadian and International Education, 33(1), 45–73. 
Berthelot, J. (2008). Education and the common good (D. Clandfield, Ed., Trans.). Our Schools, Our Selves, 18(1), 101–126, 258. 

Week 13

Ghosh, R. (2004). Public education and multiculturalism policy in Canada: The special case of Quebec. International Review of Education, 50(5–6), 543–566. 
Willinsky, J. (1998). After 1492–1992: A post-colonial supplement for the Canadian curriculum. In S. Repo (Ed.), Making schools matter: Good teachers at work (pp. 60–80). James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Publishers. 

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Week 14

Collett, B. (2007). Islam, national identity and public secondary education: Perspectives from the Somali diaspora in Toronto, Canada. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 10(2), 131–153. 
Lund, D. (2008). Fostering acceptance and integration of immigrant students: Examining effective school-based approaches in prairie schools. Working paper No. WP01-08, PMC Working Paper Series. Prairie Metropolis Centre. 
Galabuzi, G-E. (2008). Making the case for an Africentric alternative school. Our Schools, Our Selves, 17(3), 27–32.