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Bennett, Paul W.

 
9780228000846: The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada's Schools
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ISBN 10: 022800084X ISBN 13: 9780228000846
Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 2020

Sinossi

Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Paul W. Bennett is director of the Schoolhouse Institute in Halifax and national coordinator for Canada of researchED.

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Editore
McGill Queens Univ
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
022800084X
ISBN 13 
9780228000846
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
306
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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