Community Colleges in Canada: Future Issues, Future Solutions!

Autor/in	Dennison, John D.
Institution	British Columbia Univ., Vancouver. Faculty of Education.
Titel	Community Colleges in Canada: Future Issues, Future Solutions!
Quelle	(1985), (26 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Collective Bargaining; College Planning; Community Colleges; Curriculum Development; Educational Assessment; Educational History; Educational Planning; Educational Trends; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); General Education; Government School Relationship; Labor Relations; Program Evaluation; State Government; Trend Analysis; Two Year Colleges; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tarifverhandlung; Studienplanung; Community college; Community College; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsplanung; Bildungsentwicklung; Finanzielle Förderung; Ausland; Future; Society; Zukunft; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Arbeitsbeziehung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Trendanalyse; Kanada
Abstract	As their second decade draws to an end, Canada's community colleges are confronted with budgetary constraints and increasing demands for more accountability. While in many ways their performance has been impressive, these institutions face a number of issues which defy satisfactory solutions. Four of the more demanding issues are: (1) increasingly strained relations with federal and state governments, which have begun to exercise greater control over curriculum, program development, and planning; (2) the challenge to fashion a general education curriculum which provides the basis for a lifetime of learning, for adjusting to technological change, and for multi-dimensional literacy; (3) the need for critical evaluations of each facet of college operations and for ongoing professional development of faculty; and (4) the impact of collective bargaining agreements between teaching personnel and their employers on almost every aspect of institutional operations. The solutions to these problems are extremely complex. First steps might include developing long-term, financially workable agreements between federal and provincial governments with respect to the funding of vocational programs; shifting responsibility for general education so that all college teachers, irrespective of their subject area, would accept responsibility for inculcating the goals of general education; developing a coherent system of institutional evaluation; providing protected funds for professional development; and passing legislation recognizing the legitimate needs of teaching faculty and the uniqueness of the community college system upon which collective bargaining agreements can be based. (EJV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC