Educational Reform : An Investigation of Democracy and the Place of the Self in Québec Education

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Educational Reform : An Investigation of Democracy and the Place of the Self in Québec Education
Abstract
The Quebec government launched a province-wide reform of its schools and adult education centres in 1997 to respond to the exigencies of an increasingly multicultural population, and the requirements of a knowledge-based society. The author points out that this reform was aimed at enhancing democracy and citizenship in students. Based on the explosion in philosophical literature about varying models of democracy, and the concept of self advanced by each model, the author notes that it is important to investigate what vision of democracy and concept of self was proposed for Quebec through this reform, and what institutional measures were being adopted by the educational community to ensure its realization. The author uses the principles of applied philosophy for an investigation of the reform from three perspectives: a study of theories about democracy, education, and the development of self; a critical text analysis of the reform's formative document; the creation of a study group inside a school board implementing the reform in its schools. Her conclusion is that a model of deliberative democracy and dialogical concept of self was not the model of democracy that dominated Quebec's reform project despite evidence that such a model was most likely to ensure that this reform would successfully address the needs of the population.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
2005
# of Pages
v-300p.
Language
en
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Citation
Rabinovitch, Lori Diane. “Educational Reform : An Investigation of Democracy and the Place of the Self in Québec Education.” PhD dissertation, McGill University, 2005. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/jh343s673.
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