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Heyes, Joshua M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Thinking sexuality education and religion together often results in antagonisms that pit religious and secular values against each other. Political theology provides new insights into this tendency by showing how modern concepts of political legitimacy are based on secularised Christian theology. Neoliberal schooling, public sexual health and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Religion, Religious Factors
Berdahl, Loleen; Hoessler, Carolyn; Mulhall, Stephanie; Matheson, Kimberley – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Many argue that critical thinking is a democratic necessity, a valuable career readiness skill, and a key learning outcome of political science education. Research suggests that critical thinking training is most effective when students are explicitly taught critical thinking skills and develop valuation of and self-efficacy in utilizing these…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Political Science, Case Studies, Thinking Skills
Piotrowski, Marcelina – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2015
This article examines the comment culture that accompanies documentary films on YouTube as a site of (geo) political education. It considers how viewers try to teach each other about the proper "place" of critique in response to the global, national, and local rhetoric featured in one environmental documentary film. YouTube viewers use…
Descriptors: Political Science, Political Issues, Documentaries, Video Technology
Murphy, Michael P. A. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
Building on prior research into active learning pedagogy in political science, I discuss the development of a new active learning strategy called the "thesis-building carousel," designed for use in political theory tutorials. This use of active learning pedagogy in a graduate student-led political theory tutorial represents the overlap…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Active Learning, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
Choudry, Aziz; Rochat, Désirée – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Working and writing together as supervisor and graduate student in a Canadian university, the authors bring their community/activist/adult education learning backgrounds into dialogue--and tension--with doctoral studies by reflecting on their personal learning paths and thinking about what this means for teaching and learning in academic contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Bialystok, Lauren – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
This article reports the findings of a web-based survey of Ontario health and physical education teachers conducted in 2017. The purpose of the study was to understand teachers' views of the aims of the 2015 revised "sex ed" curriculum and the public debate that surrounded it, as well as to explore their own values around the teaching of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; Kummen, Kathleen; Hodgins, B. Denise – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Despite the burgeoning literature that describes the most effective ways of engaging early childhood educators in professional learning, very little empirical work in North America has examined the processes, dialogs, and engagements in which educators participate to address quality as a social construct. This article (1) describes a model of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Educational Quality
Browning, Kimberly; Elnagar, Abdelhady – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
International education has become a policy sector of increasing importance to the Canadian province of Manitoba. Provincial governments with opposing political ideologies can impact international education policy differently. Using narratives as an analytical framework, we identify themes by examining the approaches taken to the international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
Bell, Stephanie; Lewis, J. P. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
In recent years, the pressure for educators to cultivate civic participation among Canada's apathetic youth voters has been mounting. Between 1998 and 2007, a national wave of curriculum reform introducing or enhancing civic engagement education occurred at the secondary level. In this study, we explore the role and place of civic engagement in…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Course Descriptions, Assignments, Curriculum
Bell, Stephanie; Lewis, J. P. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
Traditionally in Canada, attention to political or civic education has been at the primary- or secondary-school level. This study focuses on the place of civic engagement in introductory Canadian politics and government university courses in Canada by surveying instructors on their attitudes and approaches to civic engagement in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Introductory Courses, Citizen Participation
Mullen, Carol A. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2019
Certain global leadership forces -- competitiveness, tolerance, and creativity -- are so pervasive they can be illustrated on the part of any country. However, nations also have unique dynamics to consider within our interconnected world. This is the overarching issue being expressed in this essay wherein the author deconstructs Canada's official…
Descriptors: Creativity, Competition, Prosocial Behavior, Educational Change
El Masri, Amira – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This paper explores Ontario's international education policy landscape through illuminating the discursive struggles to define international student funding policies, in particular the international doctoral students' Trillium Scholarship. Adopting Hajer's (1993, 2006) Discourse Coalition Framework, the study engages with three research questions:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
Mindzak, Michael – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
For 20 years, charter schools have held a precarious existence in Canada. Implemented in the province of Alberta in 1994, only a handful of charter schools remain in the entire nation. In this article, I explore the ideas of school choice and charter schooling and how they have largely disappeared as educational policy issues for Canadians. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Policy
Shin, Hyunjung; Sterzuk, Andrea – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This "Perspectives" article explores the changing sociolinguistic realities of Canadian postsecondary institutions focusing on tensions and contradictions around two prominent discourses: internationalization and indigenization of higher education. In doing so, we focus on a common challenge: English dominance in Canadian universities.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Language Usage, Universities
Viczko, Melody; Lorusso, Jenna R.; McKechnie, Shannon – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
The mismatch between graduates' skills and the needs of the labour market is a continuing discourse in Canada and on a global scale. Yet, arguments on how to restructure PSE are not united. Given these competing discourses, we ask the following research questions: What should we make of the various representations of the skills gap, and how are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Graduates, Job Skills