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Lana Ray; Aurelio Sánchez Suárez; Kristin Burnett – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
This paper uses the concept of glocality to illuminate the ways in which the global operates as a hegemonic social construct for settler and colonial states to infiltrate and repress other local epistemological domains to assert and maintain control. Identifying four prominent and interconnected themes in the glocality literature: developing deep…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Goal Orientation, Indigenous Knowledge, Accountability
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Kajner, Tania; Fletcher, Fay; Makokis, Pat – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
In this article we introduce a "head and heart" approach to community-engaged scholarship. Through the literatures of Aboriginal scholarship and engaged scholarship we reflect on a community-university research and program development project undertaken in response to health and education concerns of Aboriginal people in Canada. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
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Fisher, Donald; Rubenson, Kjell; Jones, Glen; Shanahan, Theresa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
A policy sociology approach is taken to examine the connections between neo-liberalism, post-secondary provincial education (PSE) policy in Canada and the impact of those policies. Our thesis regarding the broad political economy of PSE is that over the last two decades the adoption of this ideology has been a major cause of some dramatic changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Postsecondary Education, Educational Policy
Beckett, Danielle; Volante, Louis; Drake, Susan – Education Canada, 2010
Despite clear evidence that formative assessment creates vantage points throughout the teaching-learning cycle for both teachers and students, research suggests that teachers are not taking advantage of the full cadre of formative assessment strategies available to them--particularly those that have been associated with improved student learning…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), School Culture, Formative Evaluation, Questioning Techniques
Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2010
This report provides the recommendations made by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology based from its examination on the accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada. Aligned with the needs of employers, and operating on the leading edge of advanced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Research and Development, Private Sector
Logsdon, John M., Ed. – 1982
U.S. research institutions are undergoing significant changes from patterns established in the decade following World War II. Declining undergraduate enrollments are predicted to lead to "steady-state" universities; federal policy is emphasizing industry-university research cooperation and calling for a decreased federal role in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Employment Opportunities, Engineering, Federal Aid
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Shanahan, Theresa; Jones, Glen A. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
This paper analyses changing approaches to system-level governance in Canadian post-secondary education from 1995-2006. A review of major policy initiatives reveals a shift in provincial and federal government roles in and approaches to the coordination of post-secondary education. The federal government has strategically invested in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diversity (Institutional), Research and Development, Federal Government