CFP: An International Examination of Teacher Education: Exposing and...
The Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies Special Issue: Spring 2012 An International Examination of Teacher Education: Exposing and Resisting the Neoliberal Agenda Chief Editor: Professor Dave...
View ArticleThe ‘Highly Qualified Teacher’ Trope: Democratic Professionalism and...
Critical Education Volume 2 Issue 11 (September 21, 2011) The ‘Highly Qualified Teacher’ Trope: Democratic Professionalism and Educational Policy in the Face of Risk, Uncertainty, and Blame JoVictoria...
View ArticleNew issue of Critical Education: Ecologically and Culturally Informed...
Critical Education has just published its latest issue at. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Critical Education...
View ArticleNew issue of Critical Education: Accreditation and the struggle for critical...
Critical Education 4(3), March 15, 2013 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/182433 The Struggle for Critical Teacher Education: How Accreditation Practices Privilege Efficiency...
View ArticleBC Ministry of Education looks to 19 year old to revolutionize teacher...
Yes, apparently it has come to this. The brilliant folks in the British Columbia Ministry of Education have contracted with a 19 year old to figure out how to transform teaching and teacher education,...
View ArticleWould BC Libs send Port Mann Bridge drivers to Europe to research...
In what is perhaps the most bizarre government sponsored “research” project ever in the history of British Columbia, the Ministry of Education has given two contracts to a 19 year old high grad to...
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Education for Revolution special issue of Works & Days + Cultural Logic launched
Education for Revolution a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days and Cultural Logic has just been launched. Check out the great cover image (Monument to Joe Louis in Detroit)...
View ArticleATEE Winter : Social Justice and Diversity in Teacher Education (Budapest)
Association for Teacher Education in Europe Winter Conference 15-17 April 2014—Budapest Social Justice and Diversity in Teacher Education CALL FOR PAPERS Extended NEW deadline: 20th February 2014 The...
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Page 2 — The weird saga of how the BC Ministry of Education funded a teenager...
Hello British Columbians, stand by for news! As Paul Harvey used to say, now it’s time for “Page 2,” in the weird saga of the $16,000 sole-sourced “research” contract handed out by Rick Davis, the BC...
View ArticleBC’s teacher surplus, is it more than a math problem?
In today’s issue of The Province, columnist Michael Smyth drops some startling numbers about teacher supply in British Columbia (“Let’s all do the math on BC’s teacher surplus”). There’s no doubt it’s...
View ArticlePage Three: Move along, there’s nothing to see here. Or, how seriously does...
Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation of British Columbia, has been exploring the question of why the BC Ministry of Education would finance a teenager to conduct research on teacher...
View ArticlePage Four: BC Ministry of Education to investigate teacher ed research debacle
[Updated] The British Columbia Minister of Education has announced an investigation into the research contracts that funded a teenager’s “study” of teacher education programs at the University of...
View ArticleTime to find another outrage, but one last bit on the BC Education Ministry’s...
The news cycle for the “BC Ministry of Education official commissions a $16,000 education report from a 19-year-old high school graduate he met at a wedding” got extended one more day, catching the...
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No, don’t call me “Cassandra” (she had the curse of never being believed)....
On Tuesday May 6, 2014, the “Amazing E. Wayne”—renowned mystic, soothsayer, prophet, knower of things about BC politics—wrote the following about BC Minister of Education Peter Fassbender’s...
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Cultural Logic Releases Three Volumes of Critical Scholarship In One Day
Cultural Logic has just announced an epic launch of three volumes of critical scholarship addressing a wide range of issues. Cultural Logic, which has been on-line since 1997, is a open access,...
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Teacher education: Demands from the boundaries
The Institute for Critical Education Studies presents: TEACHER EDUCATION: DEMANDS FROM THE BOUNDARIES Héctor Gómez Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Santiago, Chile) Fernando Murillo Universidad...
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New book by UBC doctoral student: Teacher Education: Demands from the Boundaries
The new book Teacher Education: Demands from the Boundaries, by Hector Gomez and Fernando Murillo Munoz intends to generate a space of discussion, reflection and dissemination of outlying or peripheral...
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Teaching and the ideology of neutrality
This week, in my course on secondary social studies curriculum, we discussed various ideological stances toward curriculum. Predictably, the issue of “neutrality” in social studies teaching came up....
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Be Realistic Demand the Impossible: A Rejoinder to Peter Seixas [updated with...
“Be Realistic Demand the Impossible”[1] Rejoinder to Peter Siexas’s Dangerous indeed: A response to E. Wayne Ross’ ‘Courage of hopelessness’ University of British Columbia Department of Curriculum and...
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