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Dabby, Dia – University of British Columbia Press, 2022
Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with the mandate of socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases involving religion in schools, "Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools" reveals legal processes that are…
Descriptors: Religion, Diversity, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
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Carleton, Sean – History of Education, 2021
This article reveals that, contrary to common knowledge, schooling for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in British Columbia -- Canada's westernmost province -- was not strictly segregated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Officially, government policy stipulated that Indigenous children should attend separate day and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations, Educational Policy
Global Partnership for Education, 2024
GPE works with governments to include refugee children and youth in national education systems and helps strengthen capacity and resources to meet the education needs of refugee children. Refugees have access to public schools in 20 of GPE's partner countries, where GPE is supporting governments to build more inclusive and equitable education…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Public Schools, Inclusion
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Matthew Nielsen; Joseph Amundrud – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2023
As concern for student wellness permeates into educational objectives, educators require high-quality tools to better understand wellness. A content analysis of a representative sample of the Annual Education Results Reports from Alberta public school divisions revealed patterns in the framing of student wellness through the five wellness domains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Wellness, Public Schools, Annual Reports
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Nadeem A. Memon; jeewan chanicka – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Ontario education policy articulates an explicit commitment to equity and inclusion for increasingly diverse classrooms. Despite policy commitments, when equity and inclusion intersect with religion, enactments remain underwhelming. This paper draws on the voices of 30 Ontario public school educators, all of whom self-identify as Muslim, to share…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Public School Teachers, Islam
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Hogan, Anna; Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole; Johnson, Rebecca – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
This paper uses Anderson's notion of 'imagined community' to argue that how people think about the publicness of their school system provides insight into the functioning and flourishing of communities, societies and nations. We focus on the privatisation of public schooling in Alberta, Canada and Northern England to highlight tensions between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Public Schools
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Hogan, Anna; Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole – Comparative Education, 2022
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Privatization, Educational Policy
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McDermid, Paulie; Winton, Sue – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
The establishment of the Commission on Private Schools in Ontario in 1984 renewed long-standing debate over public funding of the Canadian province's public schools. Engaging Maarten Hajer's discourse coalition approach and argumentative discourse analysis, we demonstrate how actors with disparate -- sometimes even competing -- goals and values…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Equity (Finance), Private Schools, Public Schools
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Keddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Canadian Teachers' Federation, 2021
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on public education systems around the world has been both rapid and profound. The global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensuing cancellation of face-to-face kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) classes across Canada, has created the need to document and research its immediate impacts by means of a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Davis, Alexander – in education, 2020
Digital citizenship indicates one's place in digitized society; however academics have not established a cohesive understanding about how digital citizenship is characterized. The Ontario Ministry of Education also does not provide a central conceptualization of digital citizenship and instead encourages Ontario school boards to construct and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
This fact sheet reports on independent schools in British Columbia, including enrollment in independent schools, student composition in independent schools compared to public schools, public funding, and graduation rates. [For the 2018 edition of this fact sheet, see ED586101.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
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Amadi, Chioma Stella – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This comparative study examines the extent to which the 21st-century skills are integrated into the 4th and 8th-grade public school science curriculum in Canada in relation to that of the United States of America (USA) by analyzing the 4th and 8th grade Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes of Canada and the 4th and 8th grade Next…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries, Integrated Curriculum, Elementary School Students
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2017
This fact sheet reports on student enrollment in British Columbia, including enrollment in public schools and independent schools, adult student enrollment, student enrollment in language programs, international student enrollment in public schools, and enrollment of students with special needs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Deer, Frank; Heringer, Rebeca – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Many schools, school districts, and provincial education authorities in Canada are collaborating with Indigenous communities to indigenize content and provide progamming to improve Indigenous student success. With a focus on high school achievement in the area of Indigenous education at the cultural interface of Indigenous communities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Secondary Schools, Indigenous Populations
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