By amending its Education Act to remove the language of ‘diversity’ and ‘belonging’ and restricting flags that can fly, Alberta is enacting a quiet curriculum of silence.
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Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
Announcing ambitious education policy goals is easier than ensuring institutions, employers and educators have the resources necessary to achieve them.
We are trading one problem — not enough teachers — for another and much deeper problem: lesser qualified teachers.
Recent policy directions introduced by Alberta Education raise alarm bells, with PEN Canada saying the actions of the government pave “the way to a new era of government-sponsored book banning.”
A Walk and Learn workshop series for educators struggling with burnout combines education about compassion fatigue and burnout with walking together outside of Calgary, Alberta.
It simply cannot be left up to individual teachers to enforce cellphone restrictions in schools without significant support from school administrators and work to bring parents on board.
The ideological war waged by Smith will only endanger high-quality research void of political interference from the government.
Alberta’s new social studies curriculum misses the mark on child development, lacks adequate opportunities for critical thinking and neglects teaching about colonization.
Insights from youth about COVID-19 school closures and youth exclusion from pandemic-related decisions suggest we have an opportunity to improve how we support youths’ rights.
Experiential learning took students in a bachelor of education program out of the classroom for their own learning about truth and reconciliation and to prepare them for future classrooms.
School systems need to wake up from ‘business as usual’ learning. Teachers can draw on terror management theory in their work on the front lines with students navigating the climate crisis.
It takes a village to raise a child, but the pandemic showed teachers and parents have different roles.
Accessing “knowledge-rich” content assumes language and literacy competencies that take time for children to develop. Childhood cannot be rushed.
The recent attack on a Black teenager in an Edmonton school demonstrates that much more needs to be done to address racism in public institutions.
Not everyone needs to be on campus to learn. Governments, which subsidize higher education, need to change their funding models to support affordable remote learning.
Necessity truly can be the mother of invention. A new university president explains how the pandemic forced massive changes at his institution — and why smart use of technology was invaluable.
Canadians for the most part have been well served with dispassionate professional judgements about matters of public interest, except when it comes to what kids learn at school.
Leaked curriculum drafts in Alberta show a desire to revive old colonial myths. To face today’s challenges, we need stories that teach how humans are related to each other and to all life forms.
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
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Director, Field Experience (Community-Based), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Adjunct assistant professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Werklund Research Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, Public Health, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Faculty Professor, Adult Learning, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary
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President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Alberta
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Professor of Accounting, Athabasca University
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Assistant Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Adjunct faculty and Associate Lecturer, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University (Calgary)
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Associate professor of curriculum and learning, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary