Contested Classrooms: Education, Globalization, and Democracy in Alberta
Contested Classrooms: Education, Globalization, and Democracy in Alberta by Trevor W. Harrison
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0888643152 | 232 Pages | PDF | 12.51 MB
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0888643152 | 232 Pages | PDF | 12.51 MB
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.