Célestin Freinet (1896-1966) spent his whole life teaching in small rural elementary schools in the south of France. From this base, he pioneered an international movement for radical educational reform through cooperative learning. Freinet's Modern School Movement has provided the network through which a broad community of teachers have come to know his remarkable variety of innovative classroom approaches: the importance of creative and useful work for children learning and close observation of how they do it; a direct appreciation for the natural world; a commitment to developing appropriate technologies for the classroom; and a strong emphasis on linking school and community with the wider issues of social justice and action. Cooperative Learning and Social Change offers an introduction to a powerful pedagogical method that remains fresh and relevant today. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Cooperative Learning & Social Change: Selected Writings of Célestin Freinet (Our Schools)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Our Schools Our Selves

Contents: 1 The Importance of Pedagogy 2 Some Recent Pedagogies 3 Towards a Pedagogy for Democratic Citizenship 4 The Elements of Pedagogy For Democratic Citizenship Bibliography

Teaching for Democratic Citizenship (Our Schools)

Osborne, Ken

Introduction Chapter One "So Many People": Ways of Seeing Class Differences in Schooling Chapter Two The Origins of Educational Inequality in Ontario Chapter Three Streaming in the Elementary School Chapter Four Streaming in the Secondary School Chapter Five Unstacking the Deck: A New Deal for Our Schools Abstract Bibliography

Stacking the Deck: The Streaming of Working-Class Kids in Ontario Schools (Our Schools)

Curtis, Bruce

Livingstone, D.W.

Smaller, Harry

This book is about free trade and its impact on education in Canada, and the rapidly growing influence of business in the restructuring of the Canadian educational system.The authors analyze the powerful economic, political and social forces set in motion by free trade, document the profound educational changes resulting from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and predict the consequences of the (then as-yet incomplete) North American Free Trade Agreement. They enumerate free trade's threats to Canada's public education system.First published in 1993, Pandora's Box is an immediate report on the relation between public education and corporate globalization.An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Pandora's Box: Corporate Power, Free Trade and Canadian Education (Our Schools)

Calvert, John

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)

Paquette, Jerry

In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship (Our Schools)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES 1. Social justice in education 2. Poverty and compensatory education 3. Knowledge and society 4. Curricular justice PART TWO: PRACTICALITIES 5. Work for teachers 6. Assessment 7. Learning from experience: The Disadvantaged Schools program 8. Work for researchers Appendix: Examples of practice in disadvantaged schools Notes

Schools and Social Justice (Our Schools)

Connell, R.W.

Philosophy

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