Alternative schooling and student engagement : Canadian stories of democracy within bureaucracy /: Canadian stories of democracy within bureaucracy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nina Bascia, Esther Sokolov Fine, Malcolm Levin, editors.
• Editors: Bascia, Nina; Fine, Esther Sokolov; Levin, Malcolm
• Contents: 1. Curriculum Development in Alternative Schools: What Goes on in Alternative Schools Stays in Alternative Schools -- 2. Alpha Alternative School: Making Democracy Work -- 3. Tracing Tensions in Humanization and Market-based Ideals: Philadelphia Alternative Education in the Past and Present -- 4. Alternative schooling and Black students: Opportunities, challenges and limitations -- 5. Reverberations of Neo-Liberal Policies: The Slow Dilution of Secondary Alternative Schooling in the Toronto District School Board -- 6. Private to Public: Alternative Schools in Ontario 1965-1975 -- 7. Looking Backward and Forward: Fifty Years of Alternative Schools -- 8. From the Release of the Hall-Dennis Report to the Founding of Alpha II Alternative School—My Personal Journey -- 9. An Administrator's Perspective on the Politics of Alternative Schooling in Toronto -- 10. Learning to Teach and Becoming a Science Teacher at City School -- 11. New Beginnings -- 12. Notes on Big Ideas and Incremental Change -- 13. Contact – An Alternative School for Working-Class and Racialized Students -- 14. Inglenook: A Cozy Place by the Fire -- 15. The Name Unspoken: Wandering Spirit Survival School -- 16. The Triangle Program: Canada's Only High School Program for LGBTQ Students -- 17. Credit Factory or Alternative Education for Adults? Student Re-engagement through Multi-Media Arts and Social Justice Education, a Transdisciplinary Pilot Project -- 18. Resistance: Student Activism, SEED Alternative School and the Struggle against Streaming -- 19. Some Last Words. .
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.040971; Education; Alternative schools -- Canada; Curriculum planning; EDUCATION / Administration / General; EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions; Alternative schools; Education -- Administration -- General; Education -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General; Education -- History; Organization & management of education; Educational strategies & policy; History of education; Education -- Curricula; Curriculum planning & development; Canada; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319542591; 3319542591
• Related ISBNs: 9783319542584; 3319542583
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2017).
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