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A tribute to David N. Wilson : clamouring for a better world
\"This volume was commissioned by the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, in memory of their Past President, David N. Wilson, who died on December 8, 2006. Professor Wilson was also President of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada, the Comparative and International Education Society (US) and the International Society for Educational Planning. A call for papers was sent out to his colleagues worldwide, and many of his colleagues, friends and former students contributed chapters to this book. David N. Wilson was educated at Syracuse University as an educational planner, and he had a lifelong career at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His main interests are reflected in the five major themes in this book: Africa and Development, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Cross-Cultural Issues, Policy Development, and Comparative Education. Each author places his or her work firmly within these areas of interest and explains how their work or life experiences were influenced by him. Several of his children also contributed to the Introduction, and Crain Soudien, the 2007-2010 President of the WCCES, wrote the Preface. Together, all of the chapters provide a fitting tribute to a man whose heart, in the words of his former student Suwanda Sugunasiri, was always \"clamouring for a better world\". This work was supported financially by the Comparative, International and Development Education Centre at OISE/University of Toronto and morally by his colleagues in every part of the world.\"--Publisher's website.
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Education in a time of terror: an address given at Kent State University
This paper gives an overview of the ideas generated in a course taught by a Canadian academic to American students on the subject of teaching in the post-9/11 period. The four major topics discussed are the technological context in which modern societies are situated, particularly the evolution from agrarian to industrial and now knowledge-based societies, the development of the mass communications media and their role in desensitising children to issues of violence against the 'Other', the need for widespread reform in multicultural teacher education, and the challenges for teachers to gain a broader understanding of their own and other societies' history and culture.
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Multicultural Programs in Toronto Schools
The focus of this paper is a debate about multiculturalism and education in Toronto, a debate which has been waged for many years but which has intensified since 1974.¹ Moreover, this is not just a municipal debate, but a provincial and national debate, having implications for and being influenced by policy decisions by the federal cabinet in relation, for instance, to national language policy and immigration policy. It is a debate that has occurred and recurred in the more than one hundred years since Confederation.
In brief, this paper discusses the responses df the Toronto Board of Education over a
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