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Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities: The Contested Schoolhouse in Maritime Canada
Paul W. Bennett
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Description for Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities: The Contested Schoolhouse in Maritime Canada
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBTB; JNF; JNKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 286.
Exploring the phenomenon of school closures, this study highlights how traditional schoolhouses and neighborhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for big-box schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization, and uniformity. It focuses on Maritime Canada from 1850 until the present day and examines the rise of common schooling from one-room schoolhouses that encouraged local democratic control to the rise of super-sized schools governed by a vast bureaucracy that silences public participation. The relationship between school closures and a decline in community is clearly shown and the ... Read more
Exploring the phenomenon of school closures, this study highlights how traditional schoolhouses and neighborhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for big-box schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization, and uniformity. It focuses on Maritime Canada from 1850 until the present day and examines the rise of common schooling from one-room schoolhouses that encouraged local democratic control to the rise of super-sized schools governed by a vast bureaucracy that silences public participation. The relationship between school closures and a decline in community is clearly shown and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
286g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552664018
SKU
V9781552664018
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Ref
99-1
About Paul W. Bennett
Paul W. Bennett is an education commentator, a school reformer, and the founder of Schoolhouse Consulting, an independent educational policy consulting firm. He is the author of The Grammar School: Striving for Excellence in a Public School World. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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