Cargando…

Curriculum Reform in Ontario : 'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities /

"This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally. Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pinto, Laura Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • The ideal of critical-democrative policy production
  • The politics of 'Common Sense' policy production
  • Restructuring education
  • Hidden privatization in the institutional culture: policy actors, of 'Hired Guns'?
  • Policy writers, power and politicization: were the books already cooked
  • Citizen (dis)engagements in selection and consultations
  • Perceived policy outcomes and their absence of democracy
  • An exploration of possibilities: Porto Alegre, Brazil as an analytic foil contrasting Ontario
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: policy actor profiles
  • Appendix B: understanding and participating in curriculum change
  • Appendix C: ministry of education organization chart, 1999
  • Appendix D: policy formulation timeline.