Social Purpose and Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas and Issues (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

First published in 1991, this work critically analyses the competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling. It does so in light of major popularly understood agendas for social and political purpose, and of the troubled and much less clearly understood assumptions and issues behind them. The book examines closely four generic types of arrangements for schooling in light of a comprehensive framework for understanding the publicness or privateness of schools, and the relationships between social and educational purpose. The book poses key questions about the meaning and purpose of schooling in the rapidly evolving social, demographic and technological realities of the time. It also probes fundamental assumptions, values and beliefs behind educational and public policy-making. In doing so, it offers a way to make sense of unorthodox arrangements for the provision and funding of schools.

Education & Teaching

Paquette, Jerry

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

First published in 1991, this work critically analyses the competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling. It does so in light of major popularly understood agendas for social and political purpose, and of the troubled and much less clearly understood assumptions and issues behind them. The book examines closely four generic types of arrangements for schooling in light of a comprehensive framework for understanding the publicness or privateness of schools, and the relationships between social and educational purpose. The book poses key questions about the meaning and purpose of schooling in the rapidly evolving social, demographic and technological realities of the time. It also probes fundamental assumptions, values and beliefs behind educational and public policy-making. In doing so, it offers a way to make sense of unorthodox arrangements for the provision and funding of schools.

This book offers both a warning and an invitation: it warns that public education is in deep trouble in Canada and that, one way or another, it will change markedly in the near future. Those changes can come either by realistic planning informed by a sense of the fundamental and worldwide dimensions of the challenges Canadian public education currently faces, or simply by tightening the fiscal noose and watching what happens. If we decide to plan, Paquette argues, it means facing up to what is really a revolution in Canadian education funding--a revolution linked to the expansion of a new high-tech economy and to the pressures for equity amidst growing poverty and immigration. First published in 1994, the analyses and prescriptions offered in Publicly Supported Education in Post-Modern Canada remain relevant to the educational challenges of today.

Publicly Supported Education in Post-Modern Canada: An Imploding Universe? (Our Schools)

Our Schools Our Selves

Children become writers when the adults in their lives model and celebrate writing. This ground-breaking book presents imple ways to give writing a central place both personally and as a family. Especially recommended for parents of young children.

Coaching Young Readers with Vera Goodman

Reading Wings Inc.

First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock?

How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting First Nations education since 1986 and a series of recommendations for future policy changes.Jerry Paquette and Gérald Fallon challenge the fundamental assumptions about Aboriginal education that have led to a Balkanized and ineffective educational system able to serve few of the needs of students. To move forward, the authors have developed a conceptual framework with which to re-envision the social, political, and educational goals of a self-governing First Nations education system. Offering a sorely needed fresh perspective on an issue vital to the community, First Nations Education Policy in Canada is grounds for critical reflection not only on education but on the future of Aboriginal self-determination.

History

Fallon, Gérald

Americas

University of Toronto Press

This work examines competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling by looking at popular and accepted agendas of social and political purpose and at the more troubled issues that lie behind these assumptions. The book analyzes four types of schooling arrangements, drawing upon considerations of public and private schooling and upon social and educational aims.

Social Purpose & Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas & Issues

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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Social Purpose and Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas and Issues (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

Social Purpose and Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas and Issues (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

Publicly Supported Education in Post-Modern Canada: An Imploding Universe? (Our Schools)

Coaching Young Readers with Vera Goodman

First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock?

First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock?

Social Purpose & Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas & Issues