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Peer reviewedMurphy, Alleyne – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1984
Examines the current role of nutrition research as a component of home economics, predicts a greater importance for nutrition research, and offers remedies for problems arising from conflicts between the two disciplines. (JB)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dietetics, Dietitians, Educational Change
Ivry, Robert; Greenwood, John – Education Canada, 1999
Presents various options for schools to consider when shopping for education reform approaches. The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation was established to identify and test social programs and innovative social policy ideas that can improve the wellbeing of disadvantaged Canadians. Examples are presented of random assignment evaluations…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHodysh, Henry W. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1994
A former editor of this journal, 1977-81, selects an outstanding article from his tenure that analyzes the journal's influence on Canadian educational research. Mapping the journal's shifting emphasis over 25 years, the article selected synthesizes central elements shaping the nature of research and examines descriptive, analytic, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textNational Literacy Secretariat, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1996
This publication reports on a policy conversation, the theme for which was defining a research strategy for literacy in Canada. It is a compilation of a variety of documents--some were available at the event, others have been prepared to summarize the policy conversation itself. Section I, National Literacy Secretariat (NLS): Policy Conversations,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Literacy Education
Peer reviewedMacKinnon, David – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1996
In Canada's Exemplary Schools Project, a national committee designed and coordinated 21 case studies. A committee member recounts decisions made about design and method, and highlights differences between method and methodology, as well as variations in conceptualization of qualitative research. Discusses the meaning of "exemplary,"…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Research, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGaskell, Jane – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1996
Canada's Exemplary Schools Project, a study of 21 secondary schools nationwide, involved continual tension between the need for a coherent and shared national research approach and the need to allow local variation and initiative. A member of the national coordinating committee explores how this tension affected research design and the writing of…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Local Issues
Marshall, Victor W.; Mueller, Margaret M. – 2002
Canadian population trends were examined from a life course perspective to identify needed social policy changes. First, the following principles underpinning the life course perspective were discussed: (1) aging involves biological, psychological, and social processes; (2) human development and aging are lifelong processes; (3) individuals' and…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Age Differences, Age Groups, Aging (Individuals)
