Contested Classrooms
Author | : Parkland Institute |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 0888643152 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780888643155 |
Rating | : 4/5 (155 Downloads) |
Download or read book Contested Classrooms written by Parkland Institute and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has become a battlefield, the classroom the arena where the contest is fought. The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, the federal government's Millennium Scholarship, and a wave of protests across the country are among the signals that the war is heating up. Alberta stands as a Canadian model of radical education reform, propelled by economic necessity. But is all reform necessarily right or good?-and who decides? A range of commentators-teachers, scholars, parents, and others-discuss the conflict in Alberta's schools.