Laura Elizabeth Pinto

Curriculum Reform in Ontario

'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on interviews with key policy actors, including ministry bureaucrats, curriculum policy writers, stakeholder consultation participants, and political staffers, Curriculum Reform in Ontario provides a critique of conventional policy formulation processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612853
• ISBN-10: 1442612851
• Artikelnr.: 34760630

Autorenporträt

Laura Elizabeth Pinto is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership Program at Niagara University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Ideal of Critical-Democrative Policy Production
Chapter 2: The Politics of 'Common Sense' Policy Production
Chapter 3: Restructuring Education
Chapter 4: HIdden Privatization in the Institutional Culture: Policy
Actors, of 'Hired Guns'?
Chapter 5: Policy Writers, Power and Politicization: Were the Books Already
Cooked
Chapter 6: Citizen (Dis)Engagements in Selection and Consultations
Chapter 7: Perceived Policy Outcomes and their Absense of Democracy
Chapter 8: An Exploration of Possibilities: Porto Alegre, Brazil as an
Analytic Foil Contrasting Ontario
Chapter 9: Conclusion
References
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
End Notes