Teacher preparation for vocational education and training in Germany: a potential model for Canada?     

Antje Barabasch 《Compare》2013,43(2):155-183

Germany's vocational education and training (VET) and corresponding teacher-education programmes are known worldwide for their integrated framework. Government legislation unifies companies, unions and vocational schools, and specifies the education and training required for students as well as vocational teachers. Changing from the Diplom programme model to the Anglophone Bachelor and Masters degree model has raised concerns for VET teacher preparation. It is within this context that we explore Germany's VET teacher-education system and current academic debates. We further investigate challenges in the development of Canada's VET teacher-education programmes and suggest some policy borrowing from the German model.  相似文献   

Current state of inclusion of children with special needs in child care programmes in one Canadian province     

Gary Thomas  Georgina Glenny 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(4):345-369

We suggest that most inquiry in special education is misconceived. We examine the consequences of an allegiance to the erstwhile knowledge of special education in professional assumptions about learning difficulty and the research and practice of special education. We assert that obeisance to that knowledge has proven unfruitful for the children and young people it is intended to serve. Suggesting that the preferred inquiry methods of special education have led only into culs-de-sac, we argue that inclusive education should reinstate the importance of teachers' own experience, insights, and values—restore the significance of reflective practice. It is these that should provide the lead for new developments in inclusion. We suggest that arguments for inclusion have to emerge less out of the kind of supposed knowledge so respected by 20th-century educators—less out of notions of success and failure (of children or of schools)—and more out of ideas about social justice and human rights.  相似文献   

Educational inclusion/exclusion of Turkish immigrant youth in Vancouver,Canada: a critical analysis     

Dilek Kayaalp 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(7):655-668

This empirical research analyses an understudied population, Turkish immigrant youths' educational experiences of inclusion/exclusion in Vancouver. My information was gathered from in-depth interviews and participant observation with the first- and second-generation, Muslim and non-religious female and male Turkish immigrant youth from working and middle-class families. The findings of this study indicate that teachers' racism, linguicism and general Islamophobia are the factors of discrimination against Turkish immigrant youth in the education market. The findings suggest that cultural background, immigration status, class and religious affiliation are significant elements in students' relations to the school culture and their educational experiences of inclusion/exclusion in Canadian schools.  相似文献   

Factors associated with middle school students' perceptions of the quality of school-based sexual health education     

E. Sandra Byers  Heather A. Sears  Lyndsay R. Foster 《Sex education》2013,13(2):214-227

This paper examines factors associated with middle school students' perceptions of the quality of the sexual health education (SHE) they received at school. Participants were 478 predominately White young people (256 girls, 222 boys) in grades 6–8 who completed a survey assessing their demographic characteristics; dating and sexual experience; and perceptions of the content, delivery and quality of the SHE they had received. Boys and students in a lower grade and with less sexual experience rated the quality of their SHE more positively. After accounting for student characteristics, students who more strongly agreed that their SHE matched their interests and covered sexual health topics more adequately, as well as who viewed their teacher as being more comfortable talking about sexual topics and doing a better job answering questions, reported higher quality SHE. Students' perceptions of the adequacy of coverage of 10 sexual health topics were also positively correlated with their reports of higher quality SHE, although only two topics (correct names for genitals and puberty/physical development) contributed uniquely to the prediction of this variable. These results reinforce the need for a comprehensive SHE curriculum as well as adequate preparation of teachers if SHE is to be engaging to students.  相似文献   

Police-Civilian Interaction,Compliance, Accommodation,and Trust in an Intergroup Context: International Data     

《Journal of International and Intercultural Communication》2013,6(2):93-112

Abstract

Prior cross-cultural research has produced models of police-civilian interaction that highlight the effect of officers’ communication accommodation and reported trust in police on attitudinal outcomes. The present study, conducted in Korea, Japan, Guam, and Canada and involving 684 university students, continued this program of research by testing a theoretical model exploring the influence of perceived police officer communication accommodation and reported trust in police on attitudes about compliance with police requests. Findings indicated that across study locations perceived police officer communication accommodation predicted trust in police which, in turn, predicted attitudes about compliance with police requests.  相似文献   

Communication for Public Decision-Making in a Negative Historical Context: Building Intercultural Relationships in the British Columbia Treaty Process     

《Journal of International and Intercultural Communication》2013,6(2):158-180

Abstract

Encouraging involvement in local, regional and national communities in order to develop a healthy democracy is a laudable goal for society. However, culturally marginalized groups that have been historically excluded from such participation, and who utilize communication patterns that differ from the dominant culture, cannot take all the responsibility for becoming engaged. The aboriginal peoples of North America are one such marginalized cultural group. Utilizing data from the current British Columbia treaty process, this study posits communication structures, attitudes, and behaviors that dominant culture groups must adopt in order to build positive long-term relationships for public engagement with historically marginalized cultural groups.  相似文献   

“我们怎样做才能对学生最好？”——加拿大基础教育考察行与思     

傅贵成 《江苏教育研究》2013,(8):45-47

在对＂我们怎样做才能对学生最好？＂的反思和追问中,加拿大基础教育给出了自己的回应：教育质量问责是为更好地提升学校的社会公信力服务;＂公平不等于一致＂,教学计划的多样性决定教育的公平性,旨在促进每一个学生的发展;学校品质教育渗透在学校生活的每一个细节中,从而培养了守规则、会合作、懂感恩的高素质公民。  相似文献   

Border work: Teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school     

Rachel Heydon^{Author Vitae}  Rosamund StookeAuthor Vitae 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2012,28(1):11-20

This paper reports on a case study of teachers’ expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school located in Ontario, Canada. The paper construes the work of the teachers as “border work” and argues that their literacy teaching work was complex and tied to an ongoing legacy of colonialism. Four interrelated themes are discussed. The paper recommends improving compensation and job security for educators in First Nations schools and supporting them to see themselves as knowledgeable professionals who can entertain sophisticated notions of literacy that consider its relationship to situation including culture.  相似文献   

加拿大多元文化政策缘起之新探     

王建波 《巢湖学院学报》2012,(4):89-93

加拿大多元文化政策的完整内涵是双语框架下的多元文化政策。其特别的内容特征折射出加拿大复杂的族群关系和政治难题。加拿大版本的多元文化政策是加拿大联邦自由党总理特鲁多基于自己的政治理念,为应对魁北克政治分离主义的挑战并谋求最终化解这一政治难题而出台的战略国策。移民族群和原住民在加拿大多元文化政策的出台中所起的促动作用,不宜过分夸大。  相似文献   

中加刑事司法协助制度的发展与存在的问题     

张坚 《闽江学院学报》2012,33(3):78-82

加拿大是最早与我国进行刑事司法合作的西方国家,但由于赖昌星案件的负面影响,双边的刑事司法协助制度的发展速度迟缓。目前,在两国的刑事司法协助制度中,有关引渡、移管判刑人以及犯罪资产分享等内容均没有任何涉及。因此,两国应当借鉴西方其他国家与我国签订相关协议的经验,加快上述三项内容的协商并签订条约,以完善中加两国刑事司法协助制度。  相似文献