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)UCATION

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.rt&rructor: Rawly Lorimer

Intersession, Summer 1979.

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CC 6231

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dpecial Topicn:

The

Politics of Curriculum .'ateriala

This course will examine three different areas of concern;

1.

the social and political ideas and implications contained

within textbooks and other learning materials

currently in use.

Emphasis

will be

placed

on .ocial studies and English

at the

elementary school leveli

2.

the creation of curricular materials,

that

18 to say,

their

writing

and publishing,

and

the adoption process, including

curriculum review committees and school board buying;

3..

the creation of new Canadian alternatives including

new series with

diif'

^

renf

social ideas as well as

trade

publications

which have relevance

f

o

r

school teachers and their

students.

Requirements: 2 E

Beays,

one mii-term ard one at term end approx. 15 pages

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Texts: What Culture?

What

Leritae? ii.B. hojgetts, OIE Toronto, 1968

Unfortunately other readings

on this

topic are Spread thinly

articles

throughout

will

a variety

he

pla

c

ed

of

on

sourrc?s.

re?rve.

Copies of these books and

Books and Articles on Reserve

Hodgette, A.B. What Culture? What heritage?

Toronto:

OISE, 1968

Lorimer,

to 3

R.

reading

et al.

series.

Consi'ler

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Interchange

Content.: a

n

8(4),

analysis

1977-78,

of two

64-78

Grades 1

Lorimer, H. Your Canadian keader

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ighthouse Jeries II, 2

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1978

Lorimer,

rLade

H.

r

e

Textbook

v

i

limeo Paper.

realities, an analysis of two Grades 4

to 6

Pratt,

and

Toronto:

D..

Zuriek

The

1cC1el1and

social

Socialization

z.oie

and

of

.tewart,

scnool

and Values

textbooks

1975

in Canadian

in

Canada.

Society

In Pike

Hill, i.., Lorimer, ti. et

al The Otcr Uuides to Langauge Patterns

Volumes I, II, and

111.

:ororito:

Jthes ?

xrer, 1977

i4artell, G. 04il

l

e, . and iheppard,

L.

where

.e Live Toronto:

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James Lorimer: 1979

Carver,

Toronto:

P. (ed)

Peter

The

Nartin,

1emerts

1979

series, barth

iir

Fire and Water.

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a

Spciai 1

r

pic,e:

The Pitics or Currcu%uti 14i,.1eria1

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3oriir,

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d. ) Z'*1hooks Pitz}wnry and dhiteside, Toronto: 1977

Lorimer, H..

Take me

+o

',our r

adei

This iaázine

ioriner, H..

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in Heview Orbit (to he

publiried)

ru1r1,

Bicuturn1

K. at:d JLin,

OP.U1i5Sjofl,

G.

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anaian

Stdy 5.

History

Textbooks Bilingual and

ohi:r, R. et al

Ontario

aoya.l.

Commiasion on

Book Pub1ihing. See

raateraJ

secti.ns i':

on

both

r iuritior:ai

trte Jaekground

uhiisI.ing

Papers atid

the deport for

Parvin,

V.

The Authorizati:r1 of Textbooks in Ontario Toronto:

U of Tnron f ,o I'rrs

Johnstone,

Feopl's

Jtudy ft2.

J.C.

Images

ntroduction

of

Canada

and summary

13ilinjua1

of

a4

Findings

i3ilcultural

from

Commission

Young

4arte1l, G.

(e4. )

The Politics of the C&nadian rubiic School

Toronto: James Lorir;er, 1974

Myers,

Forum,

and

D.

Stewart:

The

0ct-ov.

Failure

1973,

,

1972

of

Oriiral.Ly

Educati

,

onal

n

specn1

iteform Toronto:

issue of The

McClelland

Canadian

Hodgetts,

Toronto:

A.B.

CIJE,

and

197F.

(aiLah€r, P.

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eachjrCanda for the 080'e

Kirst,

heview

:....

and

of rduc'nal

walker, i).F.

ices.

An

NS,

anul'sis

bee..

1:i7L,

of curriculum

479-509

policy making

Canadian

J.

of ducatjon Jpc±ai Issue: .anadjan Studies

II(j) 1977

allin, J.H..it. The

"O.I.Iti-cs

of Canadian

iducation

Yearbook, 1977

The Canadian Society f':r the itud, of r.ducatjon Fac. of Ed.

F;drnonton, t!ta.

Chaiton,

Toronto:

A.

and

Ga1e,

t4eDontd,

I97

N. Cinajan schools and Canadian

Identity

liodgeon, E.D. Federal Inerveition in iublic Education Toronto:

Can. Educ'n ts'n (oi) 1976

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