Tom Symons

A Canadian Life
Herausgeber: Heintzman, Ralph

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Produktbeschreibung

The professional biography of influential Canadian educator and statesman, Tom Symons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780776630434
• ISBN-10: 0776630431
• Artikelnr.: 34011804

Autorenporträt

Ralph Heintzman is an adjunct research professor of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. In the 1960s, he served as assistant to Tom Symons. He is a former editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and has served in many senior executive positions with the Government of Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Becoming Tom Symons
-- Ralph Heintzman, University of Ottawa and Massey College
Tom Symons and the Founding of Trent University
-- Denis Smith, author and biographer
Classrooms, Conversations and Communities: Tom Symons's Perspectives on
Learning
-- Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa
He Walked in Our Moccasins and Mukluks: Tom Symons and Native and Northern
Studies and Policy
-- Harvey McCue, former Director General, Policy and Research, Education
Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Quiet Revolutionary: Tom Symons, National Unity and Linguistic Rights
-- Charles Beer, former Ontario Cabinet Minister
Robert L. Stanfield and Tom Symons: A Public Policy Partnership
-- Tom McMillan, former federal Cabinet Minister
To Know Ourselves: Tom Symons and Canadian Studies
-- David R. Cameron, University of Toronto
"It's All About Culture": The Cultural Perspective of Tom Symons
-- Walter Pitman, former President, Ryerson University
Transformative Leadership: Tom Symons and a New Vision of Human Rights
-- Rosalie Silberman Abella, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Tom Symons and the Commonwealth
-- Alastair Niven, former President of English PEN
Peace and International Understanding through Education: Tom Symons and the
United World Colleges
-- Ralph Heintzman
Tom Symons, Independent Schools and the Canadian Educational Standards
Institute
-- John Stevenson, partner emeritus, Gowlings LLP
The Sum of All We Are: Tom Symons and Heritage
-- Christina Cameron, former Director General of National Historic Sites,
Parks Canada
Tom Symons and the National Statistics Council
-- Ivan Fellegi, former Chief Statistician of Canada
Unexplored Frontiers: Tom Symons and the Arctic Landfall of an Elizabethan
Adventurer
-- Stephen Alsford, Canadian Museum of Civilization, retired
Tom Symons and Massey College
-- John Fraser, former editor of Saturday Night magazine and Master of
Massey College
Summer Islander: Tom Symons and Prince Edward Island
-- Edward MacDonald, University of Prince Edward Island
Tom Symons and Peterborough
-- Sylvia Sutherland, former Mayor of Peterborough
Tom the Radical Tory
-- Marco Adria, University of Alberta
A Canadian Life
-- Ralph Heintzman
ANNEXES
Remarks on the occasion of the retirement of Professor T. H. B. Symons as
President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent University, at the Seventy-fourth
meeting of the Trent University Senate, 24 May 1972
-- Stuart Robson, Trent University, retired
Curriculum vitae for Thomas Henry Bull Symons
Notes on Authors