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Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
Gaskell, Jane; Levin, Benjamin
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hardcover. Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JNF; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years.
This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in Toronto and Winnipeg from the 1960s onward. Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin identify important contrasts between the experiences in each city as a result of their different demographics, institutional structures, cultures, and politics. They also highlight the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802098726
SKU
V9780802098726
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About Gaskell, Jane; Levin, Benjamin
Jane Gaskell is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Ben Levin is Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy and a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in ... Read more
Reviews for Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
‘I would recommend the use of this text in its entirety for graduate level seminars… The authors have provided a valuable study for students interested in exploring the background of urban reform movements in two important Canadian cities.’
Casey Jakubowski
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol 60:03:2014
Casey Jakubowski
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol 60:03:2014