Shifting roles and approaches: government coordination of post‐secondary education in Canada, 1995–2006

Shanahan, Theresa; Jones, Glen A.

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“…Part of this ideology was demonstrated in targeted cuts to programs and services serving some of the most marginalized members of society: those experiencing violence; children; racialized people; and poor people (Lightman & Baines, 1996). Cuts to the education system were also devastating; tuition rates in Ontario dramatically increased (Bezanson, 2006;Rajagopal, 2002;Shanahan & Jones, 2007;Schwartz & Finnie, 2002). Previously, students could apply for social assistance to meet their living costs and student loans to assist in their educational costs.…”

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“Single Mothers by Choice”: Disrupting Dominant Discourses of the Family Through Social Justice Alternatives

Ajandi

2011

IJCYFS

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This paper seeks to disrupt the dominant narrative of victimhood associated with the single mother family status. There are many barriers and difficulties associated with this status such as economic insecurity and political and social stigma. However, there are also many rewards and possibilities that make this family status desirable and rich with possibilities. Single mother families challenge the dominant paradigm of heteronormativity found within the notion of traditional nuclear family households. Drawing on critical feminist and queer theoretical perspectives and qualitative research from my doctoral studies, I will discuss how participants created a new narrative for themselves and their children. In particular, I focus on single mothers engaged in critical pedagogy and curriculum and community activism to seek connections with others who also viewed their families from a strengths perspective. "Single mothers by choice" establishes itself in its own right as a formidable alternative to dominant notions of the "family".

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Section: Reviewing the Literature And Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

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“Single Mothers by Choice”: Disrupting Dominant Discourses of the Family Through Social Justice Alternatives

Ajandi

2011

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“…Depending on the ideology of the government in power, provincial governments took different approaches to funding higher education institutions (Shanahan and Jones 2007). Against this context, Canadian university administrators took note of the Ivy League universities' investment in MOOCs.…”

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Fixing higher education through technology: Canadian media coverage of massive open online courses

Dumitrica

2017

Learning, Media and Technology

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The popularization of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been shrouded in promises of disruption and radical change in education. In Canada, official partnerships struck by higher education institutions with platform providers such as Coursera, Udacity and edX were publicized by dailies and professional magazines. This print coverage of MOOCs captures the contemporary ideological struggle over the meaning of both technology and higher education. By means of a thematic analysis of the English Canadian print coverage of MOOCs (2012MOOCs ( -2014, this paper shows that both online educational technologies and higher education are constructed through an economic frame. However, this frame does not go unchallenged. Where newspapers construct MOOCs as an easy fix for an allegedly inefficient and outdated higher education system, professional magazines question the relationship between technology, higher education and money. These different representations point to the efforts of academic communities to develop alternative social imaginaries of education as public good within a dominant neoliberal framing of MOOCs and of the higher education system. In conclusion, the paper reflects on how the academic community can create alternative discursive spaces by shifting the discussion of MOOCs from economic concerns to civic goals. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Under Canada's constitutional arrangements, the responsibility for higher education policy is assigned to the provinces, though the Government of Canada has come to assume a central role in a number of related policy areas, including research and development. While the federal government is the major sponsor of university research, most Canadian provinces have now developed university research initiatives and funding mechanisms (Fisher et al 2006;Shanahan and Jones 2007). We therefore focused attention on the two levels of authority associated with research policy at the superstructure level of Canadian higher education, and we reviewed policy initiatives associated with the federal Government of Canada and with the government of a single province, Ontario.…”

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“…We therefore focused attention on the two levels of authority associated with research policy at the superstructure level of Canadian higher education, and we reviewed policy initiatives associated with the federal Government of Canada and with the government of a single province, Ontario. Much of this analysis draws on previous policy research (Bond and Lemasson 1999;Fisher et al 2006;Jones 2006;Jones and Young 2004;Shanahan and Jones 2007).…”

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The internationalization of Canadian university research: a global higher education matrix analysis of multi-level governance

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Oleksiyenko

2010

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To date, much of the research on internationalization and globalization of higher education has focused on the institution or higher education system as the unit of analysis. Institution based studies have focused on the analysis of institutional practices and policies designed to further internationalization. System-level studies focus on state policy initiatives or approaches. In this paper we explore the inter-relationships among multiple levels of authority within a higher education system through an analysis of research policies and activities related to internationalization. While we are interested in the internationalization of university research, our primary objective is to explore the relationships between policy initiatives and approaches at different levels. Using the ''Global Higher Education Matrix'' as a framework, we discuss the policy emphasis on the internationalization of research at the federal, provincial (Ontario), and institutional levels of authority, as well as the international research activities associated with two large professional schools operating at the understructure level. By focusing on the inter-relationships among initiatives at different levels of authority, this study explores the complexity of policy perspectives within the internationalization of research in the context of multi-level governance. IntroductionThe interdependencies among global, national and local are of increasing interest in the higher education literature. Researchers seek a more integrated framework of analysis in order to understand the complexities caused by the internationalization of university research (Marginson and Rhoades 2002;Enders 2004). A more scrupulous investigation of each plane in the new framework reveals a series of fragmented elements that suggest that the internationalization of research is an incoherent and sporadic process, rather than an amalgamated and planned course of actions (Oleksiyenko 2008). The interrelationships among federal, provincial and institutional policies are one of the areas where such disconnections transpire. This paper sheds more light on the nature of such interdependencies. Before delving into the depths of the multifarious policy linkages in the internationalization of university research in Canada, we consider the broader global perspective of higher education internationalization.

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Shifting roles and approaches: government coordination of post‐secondary education in Canada, 1995–2006

Cited by 74 publications

References 2 publications

“Single Mothers by Choice”: Disrupting Dominant Discourses of the Family Through Social Justice Alternatives

“Single Mothers by Choice”: Disrupting Dominant Discourses of the Family Through Social Justice Alternatives

Fixing higher education through technology: Canadian media coverage of massive open online courses

The internationalization of Canadian university research: a global higher education matrix analysis of multi-level governance

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