论加拿大双语问题的历史、现状与趋势

加拿大是一个多民族多文化的移民国家,英法双语特色是其文化多元性的一个重要表现。本文简要地回顾加拿大双语问题的几个历史发展阶段,论述加拿大政府制订的双语政策及其相关法令的变革,分析双语问题的现状,并对双语问题今后的发展趋势作出推测。     

Strategies and Intervening Factors Influencing Student Social Interaction and Experiential Learning in an Interdisciplinary Research Team

Faculty have long incorporated students into interdisciplinary research projects to meet increasingly common demands for collaborative research by federal funding agencies. Despite the critical role of experiential learning in building student research skills and capacity, few have explored social interaction mechanisms used to facilitate student experiential learning in an interdisciplinary research team. Drawing upon the New Rural Economy project as a case study, interviews with 13 students from eight Canadian universities were conducted to explore these social interaction mechanisms. While findings revealed an array of social interaction mechanisms used to develop student learning networks, the quality of these mechanisms were mixed; thereby influencing the utilization of these networks for guidance and feedback. As faculty organize social interaction mechanisms, they should consider factors such as previous experience, student and faculty relationships, finances, language, gender, ethnicity, and other issues, that will have an impact on student engagement with experiential learning.

加拿大高等学校的网络教育

网络教育究竟是新的突破,还是对传统的破坏?它能否为学生提供优质的服务,或许它将破坏加拿大良好的现行教育体制?加拿大高校的网络教育正在探索中,它与全球化网络教育所面临的主要问题相似。     

Transnationalism,parenting, and child disciplinary practices of African immigrants in Alberta,Canada

Child discipline remains a topic of public health interest across the globe. Despite this enduring interest, very little is known about the child disciplinary practices of African immigrants in Canada. This paper explores the disciplinary practices of African immigrant parents in Alberta, a Canadian province with a recent surge in the population of African immigrants. Employing a critical ethnographic methodology, informed by transnational theory, we collected data through in-depth qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of African community leaders (n = 14), African immigrant parents (n = 32), policymakers (n = 2), and health and immigrant settlement workers (n = 10). As members of the African immigrant community, we were deeply immersed in the research settings, which afforded us the opportunity to collect pertinent observational data in the form of reflexive notes. Thematic analysis of the data revealed child disciplinary approaches that incorporate Canadian and African parenting practices, as well as practices that appear somewhat unique to this demographic. We found that African immigrant parents used corporal discipline, persuasive discipline, and a hybrid of the two, as well as emerging practices involving transnational fostering and emotional isolation of children who persistently misbehaved. These practices, in their totality, appeared to be influenced by the transnational experiences of parents and precepts that are traceable to Canada’s legal and educational systems. We present theoretical, policy, and service implications of our findings, including a recommendation to incorporate sociocultural dimensions of child discipline into Canadian child welfare policies and practices.     

Creating an LNG ready worker: British Columbia’s blueprint for extraction education

Since 2011, the government of British Columbia (BC) has focused on building the Canadian province’s economy through the development of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sector. In service of this endeavour, the government launched the Skills for Jobs Blueprint, which attempts to more clearly align BC’s education system with resource extraction industries. In this paper, I argue that at the heart of this policy is the idea of education for, through, and as extraction. Conceptually, ‘extraction education’ focuses on supply (what we can take out of the earth, institutions, and individuals) rather than demand (what is needed to put into the educational system to meet needs of the land, institutions, communities, and individuals), and is problematic on environmental, economic, employment, equity, and educational fronts. In theorising ‘extraction education’ I extend Freire’s ideas on ‘banking education’ and briefly explore dialogic, problem-posing counters to it.     

加拿大职业教育特点及对我国高职教育的启示

本文通过研究加拿大教育体系和职业教育特点,探讨对我国高职教育的启示。     

加拿大学校道德教育的内容特色及其思考

道德教育一直是加拿大学校教育的重要内容。在长期的教学实践中,加拿大各学校积累了较为丰富的道德教育工作经验,形成了独具特色的道德教育内涵。深入分析与反思这些内容特色,对推进全球化时代我国学校道德教育的发展具有重要的理论和现实意义。     

今日加拿大小学教育的特点

今日加拿大小学教育有其鲜明的特点：学校教育以学生发展为重；家长与教师密切合作；课程设置多样综合。而正是这些鲜明的特点每年吸引着来自世界各国人们的参观与访问。本文通过介绍当代加拿大小学教育的几个主要特点，以期更多的人对加拿大小学教育有所了解，并且也希望对我国正在进行的基础教育改革有所启发。     

体制改革后会计师事务所面临的问题与发展策略

改制之后的会计师事务所内部管理面临新的课题，各事务所应努力建立一套规范的事务所内部治理结构，积极追求品牌服务。拓展多元化服务，培育高素质人才。探求国际化发展。     

Transitioning to a more sustainable society: unpacking the role of the learning–action nexus

In recent years, action on sustainability has been highly influential around the globe and many now recognize the importance of individual and social learning for inspiring action and achieving sustainability outcomes. Transformative learning theory has been criticized, however, for insufficient development of the link between learning and action. The purpose of this paper is to deepen our understanding of the learning–action cycle among adult learners in the sustainability context. We consider this through insights from two studies in Kenya and Canada, utilizing a qualitative approach. Both studies employed semi-structured interviews as their primary data collection instrument and used other tools such as focus groups and journal writing. Three broad nodes of social action—individual, interpersonal and collective—are identified and defined based on the data collected. Results show that while all three types of action were evident in the outcomes of participants, individual social action was the most common and collective social action was the least. Barriers to applying learning in action are also derived from the data, including situational, personal, interpersonal, sociocultural and environmental obstacles. Factors that assist in overcoming such barriers include community support networks and skills training.