School and community engaged education (S.C.E.E.): Final Report

Through the project, participating teachers and administrators focused on seven areas: • Learning inclusive education practices for school effectiveness; • Adopting strategies for infusing culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy into the Ontario curriculum; • Linking inclusive practice to assessment and evaluation; • Initiating discussions of difference: teacher understanding of students within socio-educational discourse and the impact on learning; • Engaging parents and community as a part of inclusive practice; • Examining identity and culture; and, • Understanding the profile of the school-community, the learners and families within it, including such methods as community walks.Situated within a collaborative approach for supporting schools, the School and Community Engaged Education (SCEE) project was a three-year university/school board partnership (2008-2011, culminating in the TDSB/YCEC 2012 Summer Institute), created to examine ways of co-developing more inclusive forms of curriculum that are appropriate for students’ diverse needs, considerate of their cultural experiences, and supportive of their aspirations. Recognizing the critical links between inclusive and equitable teaching and learning scenarios, and student achievement and engagement, the project was an opportunity for five “high–needs” schools (Barrett, Ford & James, 2010) in the Toronto District School Board to examine ways that schools can integrate the histories, cultures, experiences and contributions of all students, thereby improving marginalized students’ participation and achievement.Toronto District School Boar

Innovación en la educación rural: reporte de una experiencia de formación de profesores en servicio en el norte de Perú

Este artículo documenta la experiencia de un proyecto colaborativo para el desarrollo profesional de profesores rurales basado en el modelo de la investigación-acción que se implementó durante el 2004 el Programa de Mejoramiento de la Educación Básica (Promeb) en Piura, Perú. El programa se desarrolló mediante un acuerdo de colaboración norte-sur entre tres universidades del continente americano y con el financiamiento otorgado por la Agencia Canadiense de Cooperación Internacional (ACDI). El trabajo aborda tres temáticas centrales: a) describe el contexto de la escuela rural en el Perú y los objetivos y características del proyecto Promeb; b) presenta el modelo de formación de profesores adoptado; y c) hace una revisión de las experiencias de investigación-acción desarrolladas por los participante

"From Refuge to Polis: Shifting the Rationale for Religiosity in Schools"

This article responds to Bruce Collet's article "From Refuge to Polis: Shifting the Rationale for Religiosity in Schools." In this rejoinder my intention is to shift the discussion from school-as-refuge to school-as-polis and to ask whether the integration interests of recent immigrants and refugees might not be better served by a more inclusive approach to religiosity in schools that is less about collective exception and more about social transformation

Occupational Analysis and Work Education

This paper will explore the question of whether developments in the field of occupational analysis can be used to help redefine the aims and purposes of work education in such a way as to provide students with the kinds of ''really useful knowledge" (Waugh, 1982; Johnson, 1981) that will enable them to participate more fully in the social and economic changes which characterize the contemporary work world.

Simon, Roger, and Don Dippo, Dramatic Analysis: Interpretive Inquiry for the Transformation of Social Settings, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2(Winter, 1980), 109-134.

Shows purpose and processes of doing dramatic analysis of social life and schooling