Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy - Hardcover

Jane Gaskell; Benjamin Levin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080209872X ISBN 13: 9780802098726

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years.This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in Toronto and Winnipeg from the 1960s onward. Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin identify important contrasts between the experiences in each city as a result of their different demographics, institutional structures, cultures, and politics. They also highlight the common issues and dilemmas faced by reformers in these two cities, across Canada, and globally -- including many that persist and remain controversial to this day.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Gaskell is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Ben Levin is Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy and a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080209872X
• ISBN 13: 9780802098726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232