Challenge and Opportunity - Canada's Community Colleges at the Crossroads

This book provides a critical analysis of the most significant developments in the college systems in every province and territory since 1895.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Community College Development in Canada since 1985
2 The Challenge of Leadership
3 Organization and Function in Postsecondary Education
4 Organizational Culture and Community Colleges
5 Values in the Canadian Community College: Conflict and Compromise
6 A Matter of Survival: Emerging Entrepreneurship in Community Colleges in Canada
7 Aboriginal Education in Community Colleges
8 Accountability: Mission Impossible?
9 The DACUM Technique and Competency-Based Education
10 Promise Fulfilled, Promise Pending
Conclusion
Index

About the author

John D. Dennison is a professor of Higher Education at the University of British Columbia and co-author of Canada's Community Colleges: A Critical Analysis (1986).

Summary

This book provides a critical analysis of the most significant developments in the college systems in every province and territory since 1895.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Dennison
• Assisted by: John Dennison (Editor), John D. Dennison (Editor)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780774805162
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0516-2
• No. of pages: 295
• Weight: 900 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system