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Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Relativism: The Case for Qualitative Methodologies in Educational Research
Authors: Trifonas Peter
Published: September 2024

In recent decades, the innovative approaches of qualitative modes of inquiry advocating the use of naturalistic and/or critical ethnographic techniques for the narratologically driven study of phenomena in pedagogical contexts have succeeded in beckoning for a reexamination of traditional views of research methodologies based upon the foundationalism of empiricist science within the dominant paradigm of quantitative forms of analysis. Reframing the discourse of the debate around the key issue of objectivity, and by implication subjectivity and relativism also, this essay addresses epistemological questions about the nature of ontology, theoretical questions concerning the knowledge of sense perception(s), and methodological questions regarding the scientific truth-effect of procedure(s) integral to arguments for and against the use of qualitative forms of analysis as a viable and effective means for conducting educational research.
Comment evolue Pygmalion en garderie
Authors: Bordeleau Claude , Morency Linda
Published: September 2024

The purpose of this study is to determine how educators express their expectations to children in a kindergarten situation. The methodology adopted for collecting children-educator interactions was the following : a nonparticipant observation and a structured questionnaire. We have studied the data on the angle of the Pygmalion effect. Six educators and children from 18 months to 6 years have participated in this study. The results are presented in the form of stories experienced by the children. These stories show that educators, when cultivating high or low expectations towards the children, do not seem to react in the same manner. The study should promote an awareness for those educators who work with children in a kindergarten situation and where the Pygmalion effect is often present.
The Potential of Public Education
Authors: BAKER H. S.
Published: September 2024

To me, one of the most interesting of all educational studies is the study of educational aims. As put forward by various individuals and groups, they reveal a variety of intriguing things, not only the way people think about education but the way they think about life in its most important manifestations. The study of educational philosophies is equally revealing - for our educational values, of course, are in many instances clear extensions of the more general values which we strongly hold.As a practical exercise, however, the promulgation of both educationalaims and educational philosophies turns out to be somewhat less fruitful than we could wish.
The Role of the Foundational Studies In The. Preparation of Elementary Teachers
Authors: BROUDY HARRY S.
Published: September 2024

I shall begin the discussion of the role of the foundational studies in the preparation of elementary teachers by registering some dissatisfaction with the terms "foundation" and "foundational." A brave band of professors at Columbia Teachers College deserve our gratitude for the idea of foundational studies, but not for the term. Inevitably the word makes one think of the building trades, or those great philanthropic geese that lay the golden eggs for educational reform, or the art of corsetry. All these connotations have their roots in the notion of a beginning. The foundation of the edifice is the first layer of the building, and when one founds an establishment he institutes or originates it; presumably an establishment is called a foundation when its goal is to assist in the founding of other enterprises. As for the foundation garments worn by women, they too are supposed to be the first layer of clothing, as well as the means of establishing a basic contour for the figure's subsequent adornment.
Professionalism Without Autonomy: The Paradox of Modern Education
Authors: Bowers C. A.
Published: September 2024

Every occupational group develops its own set of myths. They do this to make their activities more meaningful both to themselves and to the outside world. In effect, the myth fulfills the psychic needs of the individual member of the occupational group by linking his activities to symbols that enhance the worth of his activity. Thus, the nurse or the soldier can transcend the routine and what is often drudgery by identifying with the high ideals of service and patriotism; from this identification they derive meaning and a satisfaction that may not arise out of the actual work experience they are engaged in. The small business man, the minor bureaucratic official and the secretary derive a similar sense of meaning and worth that their demeaning tasks hold by appropriating the symbols of professionalism to themselves. Teachers also have their own set of myths which are ego-enhancing and which, like the other work groups, are only partially grounded in reality. I would like to suggest that the most important myth of teachers both for psychic and social reasons, is that they are professionals.
Vocationalism in Education: Some Comments from Ontario
Authors: Wilson J. Donald
Published: September 2024

In Ontario today education has become a topic of lively public debate. Foremost perhaps among the issues raised is the matter of financing education. This issue is of common concern to every property owner and taxpayer. Moreover suggestions to reduce education costs on property owners at the local level have usually focussed on requiring the provincial government to absorb a larger share of these costs. Such proposals, however, throw into question the concept traditional in this country of a large element of local control of education.
Continuity and Discontinuity In Educational Development
Authors: Benne Kenneth D.
Published: September 2024

"Development" has become a god-term in the thinking and rhetoric of theorists and practitioners of the contemporary arts of politics, economics and education. It points to an area of thought and action which links theorizing and research on the one hand with needed alterations hopefully, improvements - in economic, political, social and educational practices on the other. This mid-ground between basic and disinterested investigations of phenomena and customary and traditional arts of practice is, of course, the domain of technology and engineering. The products of developmental research are technologies, principles and strategies of making, doing and organizing which, on the one hand, are knowledgebased and also are shaped relevantly to the improvement of practice, to the better meeting of unmet or inadequately met human and social needs.
The Sociology of Classroom Teaching: A Microfunctional Analysis
Authors: Young T. R.
Published: September 2024

The central point of this paper is that the classroom uses information exchange as a vehicle for the structuring of behavior. This contrasts to the view that children in class must "behave" themselves in order that they may learn something. When viewed from an anthropological perspective, the disinterested observer quickly notes that content of interaction is quite secondary to the structure of interaction from classroom to classroom. The content of subject matter is trivial when compared to the other functional imperatives. This is clearly seen when one compares course content across classes. The content of a history course varies dramatically as between "history" classes within even the same school system even when taught consecutively by the same instructor.
Inuit Preservice Teachers: A Lesson in Community Learning
Authors: Weber Ellen
Published: September 2024

While some current teacher-education programs emphasize community-based learning, Inuit preservice teachers on Baffin Island already operate in a genial and collaborative atmosphere. Within these strong Arctic communities three important conditions frequently emerge in Inuit teacher education programs. First, Inuit preservice teachers tend to use a variety of learning approaches; second, the novice teachers typically create collaborative activities; and third, the Northern teachers tend to emerge from the isolation of classrooms to include more natural learning environments. My hope in this essay, is that Inuit teacher ideas about community-based teacher education, might extend to our Southern odyssey about learning and teaching within a community setting.
Etude de ('interface entre le profit psycho-spirituel des futurs maitres et le developpement psychosocial
Authors: Michaud Claude
Published: September 2024

There is a wide variety of spiritual experiences among young adults today. Some have developed a personal faith link with the religion of their infancy. Others are searching. Some become consumers of conventional religions. Others maintain that they have their own spiritual experience, after rejecting all religions. The comparative analysis of these data, done with three typologies built along complementary aspects of the individual's spiritual development, has revealed the existence of the same mental structures at comparable levels of the typologies. This research offers insights relevant to the ongoing revision of teacher education programs in many Canadian universities.
The Integration of Extrarational and Rational Learning Processes: Moving Towards the Whole Learner
Authors: Puk Tom
Published: September 2024

The polemical debate between rationalists and nonrationalists need not occur. The paper briefly traces the evolution of information processing theory as it pertains to the emerging emphasis being placed on the psychological unconscious in classroom learning. Theory and practice are then synthesized, resulting in the development of a strategy which emphasizes extrarational learning processes (i.e., processes which occur at the unconscious level of the human mind) as well as a strategy which integrates rational and extrarational processes. It is felt that the selfdirected whole learner must and can be taught to make inner connections between these two levels of the human mind
Le stage d'enseignement: Un milieu d'emancipation
Authors: Hebert Huguette , Mandin Lucille
Published: September 2024

This article examines how practice-teaching can become an opportunity for growth for student teachers. The authors situate their model of student teaching which facilitates reflective practice within their theory of teacher education. Reflection on their experiences with collaborative practiceteaching permits them to understand successful collaborative practiceteaching and how it becomes an opportunity for professional growth. This grounded knowledge assists them in their questioning of the reality of practice-teaching as it currently exists.
Lessons From Soviet Education: The Need for an Educational System With Responsibility, Authority, and Courage
Authors: Reilly David H.
Published: September 2024

This paper describes the role education played in the former Soviet Union, examines its role during the break-up of the Soviet Union, its current status, and contrasts educational changes and goals in the Soviet Union with those currently occurring in the United States. Conclusions concerning new roles education should play in social development are presented.
The Events of the Past Find Meaning in the Reality of the Present
Authors: Kafkafi Eyal
Published: September 2024

Because democracy, by definition, implies choice, the dilemma, option, and choice, should occupy the centre stage: how a given state of affairs posed an alternative of way of dealing with it, that is, the manner of proceeding rather than the outcome should be the centre of interest. This can be done only if the subject matter of history is presented in terms of conflict: a plurality of conflicting opinions, conflicting values, and conflicting interests. The knowledge about the conflict within the elite is potentially democratic because people who know the nature of it can involve themselves in politics or communication, even when they are not politicians themselves. The aim of knowing what is really on the national agenda is not to train future leaders but rather to enable the future generation to be spirited citizens, narrowing the gap between rulers and subjects. This article presents the following thesis regarding the teaching of history as the politics of the past.
Towards a Post-Modern Science Education Curriculum-Discourse: Repetition of a Dream Catcher
Authors: Blades David W.
Published: September 2024

Addressing the current crisis for renewal in the discourse of school science education may require moving from recollection of past modernistic approaches to curriculum change towards new, post-modern possibilities. Kierkegaard describes this movement as repetition, a type of dynamic conversation between groups where the sharing of knowledge and experience becomes an on-going questioning that may reveal possibilities for change in a curriculum-discourse. This paper provides an example of this repetition through a presentation that weaves a personal account of instructing a group of beginning teachers, all of aboriginal ancestry, with the metaphors of a journey and the preparation of an aboriginal dream catcher. The conversations that arise from this weaving suggest change in the curriculum-discourse of science education is a journey of being made possible as participants in this curriculum-discourse share, discuss, and examine differing cultural viewpoints.
Rousseau's Views on Teaching
Authors: Iheoma Eugene O.
Published: September 2024

Contemporary critique of progressive education tends to lump Rousseau together with Pestalozzi, Froebe!, and A.S. Neill who advocate a noninterventionist role for the teacher in education. This paper argues that such an interpretation of Rousseau's views on the role of a teacher is mistaken. Rousseau's views on the teacher's role in education are not compatible with the conventional laissez-faire approach of child-centered education; his views are not that simplistic. Rather, they represent a sophisticated attempt to balance the requirements of freedom with the need for control in education.
Just Before you Close the Book on Keegstra ... Does he Exist in Every Classroom?
Authors: Benton-Evans Ray
Published: September 2024

All teachers have emotions, indeed passions. However, a common assumption is that the biases of a teacher are left at the classroom door as he or she dons the mantle of neutrality. The realistic nature of this assumption bears investigation. The Keegstra case illustrates the potential impact of the role of teacher and, in this regard, rural Alberta is no different from the rest of Canada. It is vital to consider some of the factors which enabled such teaching to continue for so long. The issue here is how the power of the teacher's role can be abused with less attention, the extent to which reasoning processes in classroom investigations are sought, and the extent to which the authority figures of our children allow or encourage challenge. Far more work is required concerning how values can be handled in a classroom if such dogmatic teaching is to be prevented, and students are to be better equipped to deal with dogma when it does occur. The potential of such dogmatism must be acknowledged since to ignore it will not make it go away.
La perception du mariage chez les futurs martres. Une crise de sens non resolue. Ce que revele une enquete
Authors: Michaud Claude
Published: September 2024

Marriage is losing ground in Canada. Although what is probably one of the oldest institutions in the world is not about to disappear, the meaning of marriage has undergone a transformation. This article identifies the perception of marriage among Franco-Ontarian student teachers. Several student teachers report that marriage is a shared personal project; the legal constraints as well as the social commitments associated with matrimony are generally rejected. This position is mitigated however by student teachers who profess religious convictions.
Resisting Resistors: Resistance in Critical Pedagogy Classrooms
Authors: Filax Gloria
Published: September 2024

It is my contention that resistance is not adequately problematised in the critical pedagogy literature. Even while many writing about critical pedagogy support a Foucauldian understanding of power, resistance to power is often cast in terms which contradict this. Nowhere is this more evident than in discussions about resistances of students to teachers. Situating resistance with students assumes that resistance to social inequality is only initiated by teachers; that students may not already be resistors to social inequality prior to coming to the classroom; and that teachers may not also resist social inequality. By positing resistance with students, teachers, including critical pedagogues, never have to examine their own resistances.
Identity Politics: The Dialectics of Cynicism and Joy and the Movement to Talking Back and Breaking Bread
Authors: Kanpol Barry
Published: September 2024

The author argues that critical pedagogues can overcome their postmodern cynicism by connecting areas of personal and public narrative to forms of alienation, oppression, and subordination. Whether narrative is about structural elements of schools or society (such as religion) the author argues that to overcome one's own cynicism one has to joyfully and symbolically talk back and break bread - making the enlightenment and modernistic ideals of freedom, justice, and liberation a genuine possibility. The fusion of modernism and postmodemism and cynicism and joy intertwined with personal narrative becomes a "method" to answer the question critical theorists always have to ask in order to remain honest with themselves: To what end do we do what we do?
Shapes and Spaces: Inside Joseph Lancaster's "Monitorial" Laboratory
Authors: Newman Neville F.
Published: September 2024

In this article I examine the nature of discipline in the monitorial school. Recognizing that much post-Discipline and Punish research has concentrated on contemporary educational institutions, I return to Lancaster's original school model not simply to identify the presence of discipline, but to describe its function. In other words I define what discipline is. Particular attention is paid to the architecture of the school, showing how the design of the school room operates to discipline and place the pupil. I also examine in detail two engravings that appear in Lancaster's treatise, The British System of Education (1810) in order to suggest that an identifiable anxiety underlies his ostensible confidence in the monitorial system. Finally, I look at the influence which the British monitorial school had on its North American counterpart and advance theories for the system's failure.
Teacherly Love: Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment in Classroom Life
Authors: Goldstein Lisa S.
Published: September 2024

Teachers often s peak about loving their students; academics, too, take teachers' love for students to be a commonplace of education. However, there has been no attempt to theorize how love operates in the classroom lives of teachers and children. In this article I identify and describe a particular constellation of feelings which I have labeled "teacherly love," a distinct and unique variety of love both like and unlike other varieties of love that have been previously explored.
La contribution des praticiens dans la formation a l'enseignement en milieu universitaire
Authors: Gervais Fernand
Published: September 2024

In this article the author examines the special contribution of in-service teachers when they take responsibility for a teacher education course. The article underlines the main elements of sharing the experiential knowledge by referring to the results of a research study examining the links between theory and practice. This study discusses the use of the "example" as an important part of the teacher's contribution. From the results of the research study, the author has identified three global dimensions regarding the sharing of experiential knowledge; first, the modelling of efficient process, then the transfer of the teacher's work context and, finally, the ethical and moral perspective of the profession. In conclusion, the author details the teachers' best perspective when training their future colleagues.
The Dimensions of Classroom Assessment: How Field Study Students Learn to Grade in the Middle Level Classroom
Authors: Kusch James W.
Published: September 2024

How are assessment practices of student teachers formed by their experiences in methods courses and practicum classrooms? By contrasting the approaches of two groups of student teachers to pupil assessment, the small-scale case study research described in this report shows how student teachers emphasize the dimensions of assessment that demonstrate, both, their control of procedure and content, and their control of student behavior and learning in the classroom. These control-related aspects of the practicum experience derive primarily from pressure exerted by cooperating teachers to maintain the established classroom order, and derive secondarily from approaches that have been propounded in methods courses.
The Christian Philosophy of Education and Christian Religious Education
Authors: D'Souza Mario O.
Published: September 2024

Philosophy and education are concepts that enjoy an ancient association. In addition, it is maintained in this paper that the discipline of the philosophy of education can make an important contribution to the discipline of Christian religious education as both are concerned with the dimensions of an integral education. There is also an important relationship between the Christian philosophy of education and a Christian philosophy of life. All this leads one to reflect upon the connection between philosophy and theology in the con text of Christian religious education. This is of particular interest in multicultural and pluralist Canada where Catholic education defends itself from the position of its theological distinctiveness. Five first principles are examined to show the unity between a Christian philosophy of education and a Christian religious education.
Bilingual School Teachers' Cultural Mission and Practices in Alberta Before 1940
Authors: Mahé Yvette T. M.
Published: September 2024

This socio-historical paper explores how bilingual school teachers in the past responded to competing Francophone and Anglophone ideological cultural reproduction discourses in their curriculum practices. An in depth study of the cultural curriculum of 265 teachers who taught in public schools in French-speaking communities in Alberta during the period 1934 to 1939 sheds some light on how the exercise of power can influence teachers ' decisions to either give legitimacy or resist reproducing in their classrooms certain forms of know ledge and cultural orientations .
The Practice of Integrity Within the University
Authors: Calabrese Raymond L. , Barton Angela Calabrese
Published: September 2024

This paper examines the practice of integrity within the university and its relationship to university programs, faculty, and community. Integrity is framed within the construct of the university's social contract with the community. Examining integrity as occurring in faculty actions, programs, and the university's relationship to the community demonstrates the vibrant nature of organizational behavior through interdependent relationships within the university and in the university's relationship to the community. True stories are used to demonstrate the complex nature of organizational integrity and the difficulty the university and its members have aligning espoused values with theories-in-use. Aligning espoused values with theories in-use requires a commitment to ethical action and integrity to fulfill the tenets of the university's social contract.
Whatever Happens to Him Happens to Us: Reading Coyote Reading the World
Authors: Clifford Patricia , Friesen Sharon , Jardine David W.
Published: September 2024

This paper explores how a young child, heavily laden with psychologistic "troubles" was recast by a fellow classmate into the trickster figure of Coyote and what differences such recasting made for all concerned.
Croyances des futurs enseignants et l'utilisation des technologies de l'information en milieu scolaire
Authors: Isabelle Claire , DesJardins Richard , DesJardins Yvon
Published: September 2024

Few studies have been undertaken exploring the basic question of attitudes of student teachers concerning the integration of information technologies and communications (ITC) in school settings. Nevertheless, we recognize that the motivation of the primary players is essential for ensuring the integration of microcomputers into educational settings. The student teachers live in a techno-educational paradox. This paper discusses the results of a research study concerning beliefs of future teachers regarding the educational integration of ITC into school settings. The data revealed that the participants interviewed expressed favorable opinions regarding the presence of technology in today's society and for the future.
Inward: The Journey Toward Authenticity Through Self-Observing
Authors: Bergsgaard Mike , Ellis Monica
Published: September 2024

Early models of professional development commonly directed pre-service and practicing teachers to the external environment for guidance and strategies . Subsequent reflective models acknowledged that personal development was an antecedent to professional development but rarely provided specific maps for teachers to follow in this quest. The purpose of this discussion is to offer a paradigm and process through which educators may become more practiced and astute observers of their own thoughts, feelings and behaviors to enhance their personal lives and the quality of their interactions with students .
Herding Elephants: Coping with the Technological Revolution in our Schools
Authors: Tunison Scott
Published: September 2024

The focus of this paper is two-fold: to what extent do schools need to address computer technology and what strategies could be employed to maximize the benefits and minimize the difficulties in integrating computer technology into the current educational framework. It advocates the incorporation of computer technology into the educational practices of classroom teachers recognizing that computers are merely tools which can be utilized effectively by well-informed practitioners. It employs basic change theory in a discussion centering on managing and coping with change. Particularly, it encourages educators to make an orientational change to ensure that technology is used in "new" ways rather than simply to replace "old" tools.
The Relevance of Poetry in School Leadership Today
Authors: Richardson Lystra M.
Published: September 2024

It could be said that poets serve society primarily by their attention to detail, their insights into life, and their contribution to the human spirit. In destitute times the role of the poet becomes even more critical, since people are likely to move from crisis to crisis without time for reflection. Inspired by the line: "What are poets for in a destitute time" from the German poet Holderlin's poem, "Bread and Wine" (Watts, 1993), this paper examines the role poets play in society, and the context in which public education exists and makes a linkage between poetry and school leadership. Combining the craft and artistry of poetry with reflective practice, the author delineates ways in which school leaders can use aspects of the poet's craft to enhance their ability to read and interpret their environment, and sharpen their communications in ways that can help them maneuver the rapids of educational change.
Lessons Learned in Feminist Classrooms in the United States
Authors: Donaldson E. Lisbeth
Published: September 2024

Two recent publications provide opportunity to discuss an emergent area of research: the feminist academic. Quite extensive research has now been conducted in many disciplines about the education of women. As a result, there is a substantive body of knowledge about how personal identity is formed, about access to education issues, about career equity limitations, about gender biases in society, and about the need to formulate effective activist networks.
L'Enseignant: Intellectuel et Professionel
Authors: Mellouki M'Hammed , Gauthier Clermont
Published: September 2024

Although trends increasingly consider the teacher as a professional, the above definition more clearly suggests his or her real level of knowledge and work. Nevertheless, this perception only partially reveals the teacher's participation in social initiatives, and obscures the part played in ideological or educational activities. Drawing inspiration from scholars' analyses, this paper characterizes the teacher as an intellectual or mediator, at the crossroads of social interaction as an heir, an interpreter, a critic, a producer and a reproducer of education and ideology. As one whose part is to make the young understand the concepts, ideals, and the value of collective regulation. This concept does not interfere with the teacher's professional work, however, it underlines the fact that we cannot understand the specialization of the teacher's knowledge and work without referring to the teacher as an intellectual, and without revealing the vicissitudes of his or her social heritage.
The Method of Anschauung: From Johann H. Pestalozzi to Herbert Spencer
Authors: Takaya Keiichi
Published: September 2024

One of the major inventions of modern education is the instructional use of Anschauung. It was a kind of experience/based learning and had two major influences - first as a method of instruction which was more effective than mere book learning and rote memorization, and second, as a rejection of old social arrangements which inculcated traditional values through deductive and authoritarian teaching. In this article I will examine how the implications of appealing to Anschauung have changed according to socio-historical changes.
"Is There a Class With This Content?" WebCT and the Limits of Individualization:
Authors: Rose Ellen
Published: September 2024

This essay traces the provenance of Internet-based course delivery and management systems such as WebCT and Blackboard, and thereby seeks insight into the ideologies and assumptions underlying the current diffusion of such systems into institutions of higher education. A historical perspective reveals that these purportedly revolutionary pedagogical tools originated with the low-tech teaching machines with which behaviourists of the 1950s and 1960s sought to individualize instruction. Although widely touted as an educational panacea and source of learner empowerment, individualization emerged from a drive to make instruction more efficient by replacing the human teacher with a machine that delivered standardized content to a large number of students. This goal underlay further developments in computer-assisted instruction, computer-managed instruction, and integrated learning systems. The potential of contemporary Web-based systems to enhance classroom dynamics in higher education is therefore severely constrained by the legacy of individualization and the long-standing premise, embedded within the design of such systems, that the goal of technology-based instruction is to achieve efficiencies by replacing human interaction in the classroom with access to mediated, individualized content.
Digital Expressions: Media Literacy and English Language Arts
Authors: Paul Jim
Published: September 2024

Paul reviews Digital Expressions: Media Literacy and English Language Arts edited by R. C. Hammet and B. R. C. Barrell.
Issues in Design and Technology Teaching
Authors: Li Qing
Published: September 2024

Li reviews Issues in Design and Technology Teaching edited by S. Sayers, J. Morley, and B. Barnes.
The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact and Fulfilling the Potential
Authors: Kowch Eugene G.
Published: September 2024

Kowch reviews The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact and Fulfilling the Potential edited by C. D. Maddux and D. LaMont Johnson.
Response to "Moral Education and Non-Utilitarian Ideals" by John Wilson
Authors: Malikail Joseph S.
Published: September 2024

In the hands of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, ethicsfocused on the question of how to live, or how to live well.The Utilitarians and Kantians, the modern moralphilosophers, have hijacked the subject, and have given ita new set of preoccupations. For one thing, they haveentrenched a very narrow conception of ethical experience... they have tended to take a very abstract view of whatmatters morally about and to human beings. Thesatisfaction of rational preferences, the more the better,matters crucially in utilitarianism and is the basis ofmoral obligations; the joint and mutual promotion ofautonomy matters crucially to Kantians. Obligationsbased on these values can conflict very sharply with therequirements of living well. ( Sorell, 2000, p. 32)
Transcending the Commonplace: Spirituality in the Curriculum
Authors: Van Brummelen Harro , Koole Robert , Franklin Kimberly
Published: September 2024

This paper explores the importance of including spirituality in the curriculum. It describes how the absence of spirituality in the curriculum has left a void in the official curriculum of public education in English-speaking Canada. The paper describes examples of programs that provide opportunities for students to explore life's ultimate questions of heart and soul. After considering some obstacles, it then proposes guidelines for including the spiritual dimension of human life in public education in ways that do not indoctrinate but allow students to investigate how individuals and cultures have addressed spiritual concerns and issues.
Repressing Lacan: Relating a Psychology of Meaning to the Discourse of Second Language Education
Authors: Mantero Miguel
Published: September 2024

Grounded in socioculturalist theory, this article further defines the individual psychological responses of students in formal, second language education settings according to Jacque Lacan's theory of language. By placing Lacan's concepts of repression, the signifier, and the signified within outline of the practice of education we are able to approach language learning from a psychological perspective and not just from a purely linguistic stance. While analyzing the theoretical constructs of goal-directed action and the activity setting, this paper supports and builds on the role of language as a tool in the construction of activity and consciousness during negotiation of meaning in light of Lacan's contribution to the understanding of discourse in second language education. Finally, the present work clarifies and applies the Sausseurian constructs of the signifier and the signified as interpreted by Lacan to second language education theory.
Transformative Practice and the Problem of Self-Thematization
Authors: Piper David
Published: September 2024

An understanding of transformative learning is inseparable from close analysis of selfhood and subjectivity in late modern cultural circumstances. While traditional approaches to transformative practice have led to valuable insights, they continue to embody modes of reflexive analysis that may limit rather than expand opportunities for personal change. Recent phenomenological investigations into varieties of self-awareness oppose many of the objectifying tendencies apparent in contemporary interpretations of the self, and cast further light on the meaning of subjective freedom and transformative learning.
Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Plea for Integration
Authors: Agbo Seth
Published: September 2024

Agbo reviews Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Plea for Integration by J. W. Friesen and V. L. Friesen.
The Other Parent, The Inside Story of The Media's Effect on Our Children
Authors: VanCamp Jami
Published: September 2024

VanCamp reviews The Other Parent, The Inside Story of The Media's Effect on Our Children by J. P. Steyer.
The Intentional Teacher: The Mediator of Meaning Making
Authors: Roessingh Hetty
Published: September 2024

Current educational discourse promotes the notion that our instructional efforts must focus on helping our learners make meaning. Practitioners have adopted myriad ways for realizing this goal. The arrival of significant numbers of English as a second language (ESL) learners in our classrooms signals the need to reconsider what we mean by "making meaning." Dropout, failure, and underachievement of academically competent ESL learners suggest that we are failing to educate them at the level where meaning resides. An integrated framework for thinking about meaning highlights the need to transcend our commonly held views of the journey and the destination. Along the way, perhaps we will gain insight into the needs of other youngsters in their struggle to make sense of the world of school and the classrooms where they spend so much of their time.
World Class Schools: International Perspectives on School Effectiveness
Authors: Agassi Joseph
Published: September 2024

Agassi reviews World Class Schools: International Perspectives on School Effectiveness edited by D. Reynolds, B. Creemers, S. Stringfield, C. Teddlie, and G. Schaffer.
The Most Unnatural Act: Interdisciplinarity and Working Across the Arts
Authors: Martini Clem , Panayotidis E Lisa , Moss Michelle
Published: September 2024

In this paper we report on our initiative over the last several years to articulate and deepen our understanding of interdisciplinarity across disciplines, but particularly through the arts. In this paper art and analysis attempt to speak across disciplines to one another. By incorporating our ideas regarding the interdisciplinary properties of art in an alternative article form -one unlike the traditional formal schema of academic publishing -we invite readers to engage in an intertextual interpretation, and to consider the many forms that may express research. Reading across, over, behind and in the margins of the intertexts we have provided, may contribute to a better appreciation of individual and collective ways of understanding, being, and acting.
Between Tradition and Innovation
Authors: Soerensen Jane Buus , Gedionsen Anders , Sondergaard Else
Published: September 2024

Teaching, as an occupation, spans the gap between tradition in a society and needed innovations that invade as new tendencies from the outside world, in the form of legislation, curriculum revisions, changes in the larger society, and so on. This paper deals with the problems of accommodating innovative trends in Greenland teacher training. It is not our intention to present a solution to the problem, but to raise questions about innovation in a society that has a profound conservative tendency.
Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence
Authors: Motamedi Vahid
Published: September 2024

Motamedi reviews Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence by Julie A. Webber.
Improving Teaching: An Alternative To Supervisory Evaluation
Authors: Musella Donald
Published: September 2024

Improved teaching, one of the ultimate objectives of much educational activity, continues to pose problems for theorists and researchers, as well as for practitioners. Although the practitioners need to look to researchers and theorists for guidance in the decision-making activity necessary to the operation of the institution, no cause-effect relationships have come forth to assist the evaluator of the teaching process. Decision-making affecting personnel in the school setting must continue to rely on experience-based intuitive prediction and assessments that constitute the best judgments at the time.
Public Education and the Retreat from Culture
Authors: Cameron Jack R.
Published: September 2024

In an attempt to clarify the phrase, "Retreat from Culture," I would like to offer the concept of "culture" published exactly a century ago by Matthew Arnold, the English poet and critic. He spoke of culture in terms of "the pursuit of perfection," by which he meant "the harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature." The cultured man has "a liberal and intelligent eagerness about the things of the mind." He wants to "see things as they are."
An Integrated Approach to Teaching Effectiveness
Authors: Cheong George S. C.
Published: September 2024

This paper takes at least four basic positions which should be made explicit at the outset. First, the teacher is the key figure in a teaching­learning situation. (This may sound like a cliche.) A, corollary of this position is that all other contingencies of the educational enter­prise, such as para-professionals, clerical and custodial staff, administra­tion, instructional materials and educational technology, and the like, are peripheral in the sense that their fundamental role is to facilitate the emergence of pupils' learning. The second position is that the goals of education are essentially similar, if not the same, for all of us engaged in education. To state this position broadly and bluntly, the goal of our education in the ultimate analysis is to promote the well-being of mankind through the provision of quality education. The third position is that teaching effectiveness can be identified and determined only on the basis of growth in pupils' knowledge, skills, and action patterns. The fourth position which is quite obvious from the title of this paper is that classroom discourse is a means for determining teaching effectiveness.
The Significance, Interrelationships, and Ordering of Value Systems
Authors: Dahlke H. Otto
Published: September 2024

As we look around the world today, we readily see in what an educa­tional turmoil it is. There is hardly a country in which university students have not revolted against established procedures and values. In the United States the issue has spread into the high school systems. We find, in short, a revolt of the consumer of educational fare. What he is getting, he doesn't like. One can look at this as a generation struggle, youth versus intellectually atrophied elders, or as a struggle against de-humanized educational bureaucratic structures, i.e. against the style of life foisted upon the student by such social systems, or as a power struggle by contending groups for the direction and administra­tion of educational institutions, or what is perhaps more decisive and underlying all the foregoing, a value conflict which includes not only the universities and lower schools but extends to the society at large.
After Student Protest, What University Reforms?
Authors: Parker Franklin
Published: September 2024

Student protest 1969-style is a major world-wide phenomenon of our time, one whose effects historians and other scholars will long ponder. The flappers of the 1920's, the campus radicals of the 1930's, the "beats" of the 1950's - all seemingly had slight influence and with few ripples were absorbed into the mainstream of society. They were rebels without a cause, or so it would appear. Yet James Dean in his time meant something to a segment of youth who watched on screen this prodigal son veering away from accepted mores and values, searching for answers in a troubled world he inherited but did not make.
Religion and Education in Canada: A Call for an End to Hypocrisy
Authors: Lupul M. R.
Published: September 2024

In a subject as controversial as this, it is well to define one's terms and to admit one's biases at the outset. The term "education" is used synonymously with schooling, even though strictly speaking it is a much broader concept. The term "religion" is understood in the traditional sense of belief in a Supreme Being, a belief which in my agnosticism I do not share. Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to be what one is not.
Marshall Mcluhan's Understanding Media
Authors: Fen Sing-Nan
Published: September 2024

Understanding Media was published in 1964. Its content could be summarized in McLuhan's own words: It explores the contours of our own extended beings in our technologies, seeking the principle of intelligibility in each of them. In the full confidence that it is possible to win an understanding of these forms that will bring them into orderly service, I have looked at them anew, accepting very little of the conventional wisdom concerning them. One can say of media as Robert Theobald has said of economic depressions: 'There is one additional factor that has helped to control depressions, and that is a better understanding of their development.' Examination of the origin and development of the individual extensions of man should be preceded by a look at some general aspects of the media, or extensions of man, beginning with the never explained numbness that each extension brings about in the individual.
Structure of the Disciplines and History
Authors: Meisterheim Matthew
Published: September 2024

The purpose of this paper is to examine the phrase "structure of the disciplines," a phrase currently in vogue in educational circles. My intent is to explore the meaning or meanings of structure, with specific attention to the ramifications for history. I hope to lend some insight into answering the following questions. To what are we referring as structure of a discipline? Must every discipline have a structure? What is the educational value of structure? Lastly, what is the structure of history?
Les Biais ou Sources D'erreurs dans les Attributions Causales des Enseignants du Collégial à Propos de L'échec et de la Réussite de Leurs Élèves
Authors: Bouchamma Yamina
Published: September 2024

The distribution system aims at giving meaning to the world which surrounds us and at acquiring a greater control of our behaviour and that of others. The explanation of failure and success can be affected by several skews or sources of errors such as that of kindness, humility, the position of actor or observer, fundamental error, the effect of polydoxy, and the type of question. This article examines the results of research undertaken with 324 teachers who came to conclusions about causes of the failure and the success of their pupils. The results show that the teachers allot the success and the failure primarily to the pupil. They related failure to the social and institutional context while they related success to the pupil and the teacher.
Leadership Recruitment and Selection in School Districts: Trends and Issues
Authors: Normore Anthony H.
Published: September 2024

This article offers a theoretical perspective on the various trends and issues in the recruitment and selection of school leaders that have drawn much attention as a result of the leadership shortages experienced in school districts across Canada and the United States. Drawing from a review of extant literature published over the last two decades the article identifies various issues within the scope of recruitment and selection systems and posits that when developed and implemented appropriately effective recruitment and selection can help replenish the pool of applicants for leadership positions in public schools. Combining themes developed during the literature review with author's personal communication, a list of implications and recommendation are provided that can assist school district personnel with their efforts to effectively integrate recruitment and selection into leadership development for effective schools.
Trial: The Loss of Constitutional Rights in Education in Newfoundland and Labrador: The Roman Catholic Story
Authors: D'Souza Mario O.
Published: September 2024

Repeated offers by the three denominations to reform their educational systems (including economic reforms), while preserving its distinctiveness, were met with the often contradictory, but nonetheless relentless march, that led to the suppression of the constitutional rights and guarantees of these minority groups. [...] while Fagan does make brief mention of such a philosophy, one can hear the responses of other denominations, both Christian and non-Christian, claiming the distinctiveness of their own faith traditions and education system, including religious education and pastoral care, thus leaving the constitutional guarantees of Catholic education open to challenge.