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Designing A New Resourcing Model For Rural Schools In Labrador, April Blake
Designing A New Resourcing Model For Rural Schools In Labrador, April Blake
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
The motivation of this Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) is rooted in attaining more equity and social justice for marginalized groups in rural, geographically isolated sections of Labrador. The focus of the change process within the social justice frame is the lack of resources in these rural schools. The broad base of the resourcing issue encompasses lack of rural staff, books, manipulatives, technology, games, funding, community supports, consumables and all other standard school accompaniments. Departmental funding for our schools is very limited, this is an extensive and significant issue in most rural schools in the area, and this OIP plans change …
The Ethics Of Contracting For Education Within A Neoliberal Framework, Deej James
The Ethics Of Contracting For Education Within A Neoliberal Framework, Deej James
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
No matter how lightly you tread, you can not cross a beach without leaving footprints, nor without carrying a little sand away with you. Open systems theory states that an organization has permeable boundaries “dependant on its environment for survival and will go out of existence unless it is actively attended to” (Burke, 2011, p. 61), and it is with this consideration that the tenets of social justice are understood to be a responsibility of all entities, as “the public” is not a target group that can be somehow isolated so as to be impacted by only public administrators. Private …