Explores how experiments in both community development and in community economic development that are based on cooperative education provide fertile ground for research in environmental education. (Author/CCM)

Claims that environmental education in a postmodern world will have to be sensitive to the ill-defined nature of emerging key concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability. (Author/CCM)

Argues that sustainability is a process that links social equity, economic growth, and environmental protection; therefore, sustainable consumption is a mode of consumption congruent with this meaning of sustainability. (Author/CCM)

Advances a possible theoretical approach to education for sustainable tourism and describes a small-scale research project based on this approach. Seeks to integrate education for sustainable tourism into an established management curriculum using an innovative technique based on the idea of an adaptive concept. (Author/CCM)

Discusses four principles useful in mediating continued educational imperialism: (1) reflexivity; (2) respect; (3) dignity; and (4) reciprocity. (Author/CCM)

Presents the story of a community that, with the support of the researcher, endeavored to peel back the layers of debris that had muffled their voices. This constructed debris--social, physical, cultural, and historical--served to reproduce the power of the other through processes of false consciousness. (Author/CCM)

Presents a continuing conversation about the meaning of the term "environment" as it appeared in a newly-released environmental-education-policy statement. Studies how writing plays an important role in getting at the core assumptions and values of reflective teachers and researchers, and representing such thinking to the reader. (Author/CCM)

Describes some experiences of a female associate dean in a university faculty within the framework of a typology of power to reveal its changing nature. The typology contains five components of power: power over others; structural factors; power through others (facilitative power); power with others (empowerment); and personal power. (Author/MSE)

Argues that while the best method for measuring "value added" to skills (e.g., critical and communication skills) by the university experience is through longitudinal analyses using both subjective and objective measures of skills with appropriate control groups, a more feasible strategy used at York University (Ontario) compares the skills of…

Studied the scope, process, and effects of student participation in university governance, including student government through semistructured interviews with 31 faculty and student respondents. Findings show that students are capable of administering their own affairs, satisfying various student needs, and protecting the political interests of…

Studied French-language minority access to higher education in Ontario, Canada, using student enrollment data for 15 to 25 years (depending on the level). Findings show how the provision of French-medium programs is followed by an increase in minority enrollments and a preference for French-medium programs, even as the reduction in French-medium…

Developed an exploratory schema gathering three types of variables defining quality of socioprofessional integration and three other variables that are likely to predict the socioprofessional integration of new workers. Tested the schema with 97 recent graduates of higher education programs. Findings show that all the schema's variables except age…

Three Ontario (Canada) court cases involve challenges to educational regulations or policies resting on traditional assumptions about the religious nature and purpose of schooling. How these cases and two others help clarify the meaning of multiculturalism and whether the Ontario courts hold a particular theory of ethnic relations are discussed.…

The valid interpretation of international testing program results in mathematics and science must recognize inherent limitations to international comparisons, and should give opportunity-to-learn as much importance as achievement data. Canadian test results, looked at in this light, appear better than some critics have suggested. (Author/SLD)

A variety of approaches to gender equity and schooling has developed in Canada over the last 25 years. The recent history of these efforts shows how they have been linked and reveals the body of research on which teachers have drawn in their work in schools. (SLD)