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Bouchard, Nancy – McGill Journal of Education, 2020
This paper presents an innovative analytical model of Ethics Education, and uses it to analyze the major learning components found in England's National framework for religious education (NFRE). The model is based on research on Ethics Education in French­-speaking countries but can be used to characterize Ethics Education within any specific…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Religious Education, Self Concept, Social Cognition
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Adamo Di Giovanni; Lana Parker – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2025
The overarching objective of this study is to become more closely attuned to the politics of curriculum by identifying the discursive practices employed by governments to position curricular reform. In particular, this analysis aims to show how the twinning of neoliberalism and neoconservatism has served to justify shifts in curriculum at three…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Neoliberalism, Curriculum Development, Political Attitudes
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Braun, Rachel – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2020
In this 25-minute conversation café, participants synthesized the findings of Braun, Kaipainen & Usman's (2018) environmental scan of experiential learning (EL) at the University of Calgary with their conference learning to create an experience and evidence-informed hypothesis of the next strengths, challenges, and required supports on the EL…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Scholarship
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Daniel John Anderson – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Across Canada, provincial education mandates cite intellectual development, socialization, and vocational preparation as some of the central goals of public schooling (B.C., 1989; Ontario, 1990). Within Alberta's Guide to Education (2024) yet another objective is offered, which is that schooling ought to promote the leading of "meaningful,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Principles, Intellectual Development, Socialization
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Asfeldt, Morten; Purc-Stephenson, Rebecca; Zimmerman, Thomas – Environmental Education Research, 2022
The roots and goals of outdoor education (OE) in Canada are often linked to the Canadian summer camp tradition that emerged in the early 1900s which centered around character development, and the environmental movement of the 1950s and 1960s. However, a comprehensive understanding of the philosophies, goals, and activities of modern Canadian OE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lapointe, Claire; Langlois, Lyse; Tanguay, Dominique – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2020
Over the past 20 years, improving ethical awareness within organizations has become a priority in the public and private sectors. Ethics is formalized in the workplace, within structures, policies, and practices. However, few studies document the formalization of ethics with regard to its relationship to leadership. Findings from our previous…
Descriptors: Ethics, Values, Leadership Styles, School Culture
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Hughes, Janette; Morrison, Laura; Robb, Jennifer A. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2021
This article reports on the evolution of a STEAM-based teacher professional learning program designed to focus on maker pedagogies. Design-Based Research methodology was used to frame three iterations of professional learning sessions, which collectively involved more than 85 teachers in Ontario, Canada. The article describes the three iterations…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Professional Development, Teacher Education
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Nedelcu, Alexandra; Grégoire, Simon – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2022
This qualitative study concerns the implementation of an intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) within nine postsecondary Canadian institutions. Its goal is to identify the factors that facilitate or hinder the implementation of the Korsa workshops (https://korsa.uqam.ca/), an intervention aimed at reducing psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Mental Health, Health Personnel
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Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
This article describes the findings from a study of the transformation experiences of African war survivors to understand how the process of transformative learning is experienced in posttrauma contexts. A narrative inquiry was conducted based on 12 interviews of African war survivors in Canada and 6 autobiographical accounts of survivors living…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Trauma, Social Change, Moral Development
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Breen, Andrea V.; Twigger, Kate; Duvieusart-Déry, Caroline; Boulé, Jessica; Borgo, Alessia; Ferandes, Reisha; Lychek, Mercerina; Ranby, Sarah; Scot, Christine; Whitehouse, Emma – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Knowledge Translation (KT) is increasingly a requirement for scholars and non-academics working in applied settings. However, few programs provide explicit training in KT. In this article we systematically explore our experiences as a multi-disciplinary group of course facilitators and students in a newly redeveloped graduate course in Evidence…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Learning Experience, Decision Making
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Groen, Janet – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2016
Do spiritual retreat centres have a role to play in fostering environmental awareness and action? Using an interpretive case study methodology, this research study explored the perspectives of staff members working at two religiously based spiritual retreat centres in Western Canada to explore this question and to determine how this is translated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Spiritual Development, Religion, Foreign Countries
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Valk, John – Religious Education, 2017
In this article, the author John Volk, professor of Worldview Studies at Renaissance College, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, looks forward toward the November 2017 Religious Education Association Conference, which is entitled "Learning in Encounter: Crossroads, Connections, Collaborations", and says that…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Self Concept, Trust (Psychology), Beliefs
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Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne, Ed.; Cherrstrom, Catherine, Ed.; McGinty, Jacqueline, Ed.; Rhodes, Christy, Ed. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) was founded in 1982 as the result of a merger between the National Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education (NAPCAE) and the Adult Education Association (AEA). This prestigious association is dedicated to the belief that lifelong learning contributes to human…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
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Chow, Angela; Krahn, Harvey J.; Galambos, Nancy L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Employing a life span developmental systems perspective, this study used a 5-wave (1985-1992) Canadian longitudinal data set (N = 404) to examine trajectories of intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs from age 18 to 25. Piecewise growth models (Slope 1: age 18-20; Slope 2: age 20-25) showed intriguing patterns of change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Employment, Young Adults
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Baker, Stephen J. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
A concern for Catholic educators is how to keep Catholic schools viable and healthy in a milieu of diminishing numbers of religious as well as a very complex and changing world. This article addresses the Augustinians' response to the challenge to keep the Order's mission of education alive and thriving in the 21st century. This article hopes to…
Descriptors: Values Education, Values Clarification, Values, Catholic Schools
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