Liberal Education Civic Education And The Canadian Regime

Author : D. W. Livingstone
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773597846

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Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime by D. W. Livingstone Pdf

Shortly after Canadian confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee proclaimed that education was "an essential condition of our political independence" and that its role was to form citizens for the new regime. Comparing this idea of education for citizenship, or civic education, to the modern goals of education, Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime explores the founders' principles, their sources, and the challenges that threaten their vision for Canada. The collection's first essays analyze the political thought of early Canadians such as Brown, McGee, Ryerson, and Bourinot, while later chapters examine enduring principles of liberal democracy derived from Aristotle, de Tocqueville, and Hobbes. The final chapters bring the discussion forward to such topics as the decline of Canadian Catholic liberal arts colleges and the emerging role of our Supreme Court as a self-appointed "moral tutor." Moreover, as it deals with the changing roles of universities in contemporary Canada, Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime engages current debates about the value and place of a traditional liberal education and the consequences of turning our back on the concepts that inspired our founding leaders. Considering whether Canada’s early documents and traditions can revive past debates and shed light on contemporary issues, this highly original collection presents education as an essential condition of our independence and asks whether current educational principles are threatening Canadians’ capacity for self-government.

Author : Peter Christopher Emberley,Waller Randy Newell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015032594270

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Bankrupt Education by Peter Christopher Emberley,Waller Randy Newell Pdf

Scholars of political science, claiming to represent the views of many Canadians, say that the school system is out of step with the requirements of citizenship in a liberal democracy. Educators should promote literacy, convey principles of justice, and develop moral character, they say, and are not doing so. The solution is a reconsideration of the whole tradition of liberal education. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Yvonne M. Hébert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0802078354

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Citizenship in Transformation in Canada by Yvonne M. Hébert Pdf

Contributors argue persuasively that since conceptions of democratic citizenship are changing, so too should operational definitions of citizenship education.

Author : Kenneth Osborne,Ken Osborne
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0921908008

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Educating Citizens by Kenneth Osborne,Ken Osborne Pdf

The Canadian left has over the years paid remarkably little attention to the actual content of education. Apart from occasional bursts of concern about militarism, sexism, racism, or anti-labour bias, the school curriculum has gone largely unquestioned. Socialist values such as cooperation, participation, personal autonomy, and a sense of community do not appear out of thin air. They have to be acquired. Conservatives and liberals have long realized this and have shaped the schools accordingly, so that the capitalist ethic of competitive individualism is now strongly entrenched and is learned early in life. If the vision of cooperative commonwealth is to become a reality, then education will have an important role to play. This book is an attempt to outline what this role might be. Educating Citizens outlines a working class curriculum designed to prepare students for participation in a socialist democracy. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Author : Eamonn Callan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198292586

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Creating Citizens by Eamonn Callan Pdf

Written by one of the most highly regarded philosophers of education in the world today, this timely new study sheds light on the recent debate over federal funding of private schools. Eamonn Callan identifies both the principal ends of civic education and the rights that limit their political pursuit.

Author : Patrick Malcolmson,Richard Myers,Gerald Baier,Thomas M.J. Bateman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781487525378

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The Canadian Regime by Patrick Malcolmson,Richard Myers,Gerald Baier,Thomas M.J. Bateman Pdf

This book provides a concise explanation of the fundamental principles and primary institutions of the Canadian political regime.

Author : Geoffrey C. Kellow
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303095871X

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The Wisdom of the Commons by Geoffrey C. Kellow Pdf

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education. This study distinguishes itself from other works on liberal and civic education by focusing explicitly on the civic and liberal education of those citizens who are not destined for prominent positions within politics and government but are still a part of and relevant to political society. It considers this strand of liberal and civic education, in both its ancient and modern iterations, by focusing on the philosophies of Plato, Cicero, Locke, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

Author : Christine Storm
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773566101

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Liberal Education and the Small University in Canada by Christine Storm Pdf

Whatever the goal of a liberal education, whether it is acquiring a core body of knowledge, a style of thinking, or the development of character, these essays suggest the importance of the academic community, characteristic of the small university, in the shaping and survival of liberal education. Small classes, a sense of community, and personal dialogue between students and faculty are ingredients that can best be provided by the small university and that make a unique contribution to the intellectual development of students. Contents The Purpose and Content of a Liberal Education - Hans vanderLeest Theme and Variations in the Arts and Science Curriculum - Tom Storm and Christine Storm Perception of the Undergraduate Experience: Graduates of a Small University, 1960-1984 - Christine Storm, Tom Storm, and Michelle Strain Access to excellence? The Social Background of Mount Allison Students - Berkely Fleming and Brian Campbell Science within the Liberal Arts: Mount Allison and the Maritime Universities - Paul Bogaard Art at Mount Allison: A History - Virgil Hammock Drama, the Campus, and the Curriculum at Mount Allison: "This Green Plot Shall Be Our Stage ..." - Mark Blagrave Religion at the Small University: A Comparison of Three Maritime Universities - Mark Parent The Financial Problems Facing Canadian Universities: Some Unpleasant Economic Principles - Frank Strain Unbalanced Productivity Growth and the Financial History of Mount Allison University - Frank Strain Helping the Student Learn: Special Assistance to Undergraduates - Jane Drover, Brian MacMillan, and Lex Wilson Technological Innovation and Liberal Education - Paul Cant, Bob Hawkes, and Nancy Vogan.

Author : Canadian Education Association
Publisher : Canadian Education Association
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Citizenship Study and teaching Canada
ISBN : 0920315372

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Canada and Citizenship Education by Canadian Education Association Pdf

This document contains papers on the following topics: Canadian citizenship for a progressive state; the current status of teaching about citizenship in Canadian elementary and secondary schools; Canadian society in the year 2000; the Charter and the teaching human rights and citizenship; the Charter and legal literacy; literacy for citizenship; ways of teaching values; theories and attitudes towards political education; thoughts on education for global citizenship; role-play and citizenship education; co-operative learning; and an exercise in simulations and citizenship education.

Author : George H. Richardson,David W. Blades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820476056

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Troubling the Canon of Citizenship Education by George H. Richardson,David W. Blades Pdf

The discourse of civic education privileges liberal democratic understandings of citizenship. Yet we know that such understandings do not accurately represent the complex, plural, and problematic nature of citizenship in contemporary society. To stimulate discussion about new possibilities for teaching citizenship, this volume brings together the work of Canadian and American curriculum scholars to «trouble» the existing canon of citizenship education. Addressing themes as diverse as gender, sexual orientation, globalization, agency, ontology, and interdisciplinarity, the essays that make up this collection seek to enlarge and expand upon the ways educators, curriculum developers, and policymakers might approach teaching citizenship.

Author : Jody Mason
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773559592

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Home Feelings by Jody Mason Pdf

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of the organization that became Frontier College in 1919. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, Home Feelings investigates how the reading camp movement used fiction, poetry, songs, newspapers, magazines, school readers, and English-as-a-second-language and citizenship manuals to encourage ideas of selfhood that were individual and intimate rather than collective. Mason shows that British-Canadian settlers' desire to define themselves in relation to an expanding non-British immigrant population, as well as a need for immigrant labour, put new pressure on the concept of citizenship in the first decades of the twentieth century. Through the Frontier College, one of the nation's earliest citizenship education programs emerged, drawing on literature's potential to nourish ""home feelings"" as a means of engaging socialist and communist print cultures and the non-British immigrant communities with which these were associated. Shifting the focus away from urban centres and postwar state narratives of citizenship, Home Feelings tracks the importance of reading projects and conceptions of literacy to the emergence of liberal citizenship in Canada prior to the Second World War.

Author : Emberley,Newell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0802006183

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Liberal Education and Citizenship by Emberley,Newell Pdf

Author : Robert J. Jackson,Doreen Jackson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canada
ISBN : PSU:000032323603

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Politics in Canada by Robert J. Jackson,Doreen Jackson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460910258

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Civic Education and Youth Political Participation by Anonim Pdf

Why does it appear that many young people are disengaging from democracy and political participation? For many governments, politicians, academics, social commentators and researchers this is a serious and challenging problem. Consequently widespread interest exists on how to engage young people in politics and democracy.

Author : Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000858884

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Canadian Conservative Political Thought by Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko Pdf

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.