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How Corporate Business Practices are Transforming Education: Case Studies of Five Canadian Secondary Schools
Author(s): Robert E. White (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 412 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773438955
- ISBN-13: 9780773438958
Book Description
This research inquires into the nature of corporate involvement in schooling and strives to understand its impact. It describes the extent, variety and effects of corporate involvement in the process of schooling and to identify processes by which transactions between businesses and educational institutions occur. It also clarifies views held by business partners and secondary public school educators towards corporate investment in schooling. The school systems’ acceptance of responsibility in providing the latest technological skills to students, combined with funding cuts, has created a dilemma: inferior technological skills or private sector support.
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This research inquires into the nature of corporate involvement in schooling and strives to understand its impact. It describes the extent, variety and effects of corporate involvement in the process of schooling and to identify processes by which transactions between businesses and educational institutions occur. It also clarifies views held by business partners and secondary public school educators towards corporate investment in schooling. The school systems’ acceptance of responsibility in providing the latest technological skills to students, combined with funding cuts, has created a dilemma: inferior technological skills or private sector support.
About the Author
Dr. White, a graduate of the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba, began teaching in secondary education in Manitoba. After completeing a Master of Education degree at the University of British Columbia, he taught English as a Second Language and Humanities, was a Department Head and School District Consultant proir to obtaining a doctotate at OISE/UT. Currently, as Associate Professor at St. Francis Xavier University.
