Examines a curriculum-development project utilizing participatory research to address cultural standards for non-Aboriginal administrators and teachers of Aboriginal schools. Explores premise that to work effectively with Aboriginal children and to enable them to achieve desirable academic standards, administrators and teachers need to abide by…

Traces philosophical appraisals of technology, both as devices for human purposes and, as technological rationality, as ways of thinking and acting. Two applications of communication technology in the context of Canadian coastal communities illustrate the distinction between training and education, and the importance of public space in which to…

Case study of educational finance in Quebec examines policy issues related to the transition from mixed funding (state and local revenue sources) to full state funding and then back to mixed funding. (Contains 59 references.) (PKP)

Essay on the pedagogical value of teacher open mindedness. (Contains 45 references.) (PKP)

The author's musings about the value of knowledge and who owns it intensified when considering the World Wide Web and its effects on the way knowledge is constructed and disseminated. Any peer-reviewed process (print or online) works in opposition to the web's original purpose: to share results openly. (MLH)

Canadian Catholic education has increasingly been defended from a theological rather than a philosophical position. This article reflects on how the contemporary stress on experience and subjectivity influences Canadian religious education and how these qualities may fashion a distinct, pluralistic Canadian Catholic education for the future.…

Analyzed interviews to explore how nine administrators, at three different career stages, perceived career-development and succession planning at a Canadian postsecondary technical institute. Managers attribute career success to possession of varied personal attributes, diverse work experiences, serendipity, and a fulfilling work environment. Job…

Since educational administrators practice within a culturally and ethically diverse context, traditional ethical frameworks grounded in Eurocentric value systems should yield to a collaborative-expressive model. This article traces a history of moral theories, outlines distinctions between the two models, and promotes a facilitative role for…

Case study of four high school principals examines the reciprocal influence between principals and teachers involving the principals' priorities and teacher-identified school norms. Finds that influence flowed from principals to teachers in all four high schools, but the teachers' influence on the principals is present in only two of the high…

Conceptual analysis, using three major arguments, of the relationships among the organizational structure of schools, leadership styles, and the supervision of teaching practices. One argument, for example, is that situational and transformational approaches to supervision are influential forms of professional development. Constructs arguments…

Discusses the role of tenure and its relationship to academic freedom in Canada. Suggests that tenure qua academic freedom is best thought of as a "public good"--its justification chiefly lies in addressing external threats to university faculty. In addition, tenure serves to shield faculty from internal threats. Argues that tenure can also be…

The values of the short-term future are implicit: an unholy Apollonian-Dionysian mix of rationalistic, legalistic, bureaucratic, scientific pragmatics, and a reactive, postmodern, relativistic, hedonistic, narcissistic, materialistic nihilism. For education, this might imply a skew toward the digital, the mathematical, the marketable, and the…

Employs a market perspective to explain why financial returns to college teaching and research are necessarily unequal. Research will receive greater rewards so long as its market reach is longer, research talent is in shorter supply, and the benefits of research can be partially appropriated by individual scholars. (Contains 13 references.) (MLH)

Reviews values evident in early discussions about the social effects of distance education in New Zealand. Public debates and emergent literature are characterized by extreme positions indicating deep value conflicts. Most discussions were driven by ideological commitment to principles, such as egalitarianism, communitarianism, and…

Analyzes current and future directions of educational change in Quebec, highlighting major policy themes: governance and organization, teaching and learning, and human and financial resources. The necessary conditions for achieving intended reform goals may be lacking. Schools lack the capacity to engage in self-development without external…