Education Project

This week, three hundred thousand students from 178 associations are boycotting their classes in Quebec to protest the provincial government's decision to raise tuition fees $325 a year for the next five years. CBC radio in Quebec City interviewed Erika Shaker, director of the CCPA's Education Project, about the relationship between fees and accessibility to higher education, as well as the social and economic benefits of public investment in our colleges and universities. Click here to listen to the interview.

The common story of why we need to integrate information and communication technology into education has changed. A dozen years ago it was about changing and preparing students. Now it's about changing the schools to fit the kids. This shift generates enthusiasm about changes among many—but not everyone. The speed and breadth of technological change and how it plays out in education is creating many battles.

The Winter 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves -- Every Tool Shapes the Task identifies some of these areas of conflict and how they play out in schools and for students and teachers. The articles in this issue frame some of the many areas of conflict over education — conflicts that grow out of social, cultural, political and technological changes and differences. 

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The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal circumstance, cultural and social relevancy, that is just and empowering and committed to creating and sustaining healthy and diverse communities, and is dedicated to thoughtful and multifaceted critique and analysis so as to work towards constant improvement? The fall 2011 issue of Our Schools / Our Selves -- Instruments of Social Change looks at ways how schools, students and educators are addressing these and other issues, and ways in which wider communities can assist in this goal.  

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We're pleased to introduce our 2012 Calendar: An Agenda for Social Change. This is about more than keeping you organized—each month identifies and describes key dates in Canada's social justice history. Each day provides readers with an opportunity to explore how debates about equality, gender, environment, First Nations, labour, trade and social programs helped shape our development and identity; an appendix includes links and suggestions for additional reading.

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In 1999, Nunavut was officially celebrated and regarded as a governance gem: a masterfully crafted work of public administration that would serve the Inuit in the best way. However, today, more than 10 years after its creation, although it has a government, policies and legislation in place which officially attempt to support Inuktitut, it lacks two essential features of any sustainable society: the protection of its language, and its own education system. For that reason, the summer 2011 issue of Our Schools / Our Selves, The Voice of Nunavut: Learning from the Eastern Arctic's education challenges, focuses on language and education in the region, going beyond the policies that so often obscure what is actually happening on the ground.

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