Community Colleges in Western Canada: A Study of the Development of Provincial Colleges and College Systems. Education 570: The Community and Junior College, Winter Semester, 1972.

Autor/in	Ratcliff, James L.
Titel	Community Colleges in Western Canada: A Study of the Development of Provincial Colleges and College Systems. Education 570: The Community and Junior College, Winter Semester, 1972.
Quelle	(1973), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Admission; College Role; Community Colleges; Community Control; Educational Philosophy; Educational Policy; Postsecondary Education; Surveys; Vocational Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Community college; Community College; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Kanada
Abstract	A survey of the development and current state of community colleges in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia is presented. The data collected generally reflects developments to 1971. Due to the traditional elitism of higher education in Canada, the community college movement has had to justify its existence as useful without duplication of services of either the universities or institutes. Community colleges as open-door institutions with potential student mobility between vocational and academic programs have been slow to arrive. Western Canada has virtually no community colleges if one uses the strict definition of comprehensive colleges articulated and controlled by communities. But the speculation can be made that the idea of provincial service has grown out of the relative autonomy of the individual provinces and has constituted one of the major Canadian adaptations to the comprehensive community college idea. Looking west to east in the four provinces discussed, a steady increase in developmental level and organization of community colleges can be seen. The dominance of university affiliation also has seemed to decrease moving to the west in the provinces discussed. The concept of post-secondary educational service to the entire populace of the province is also more developed in the west than in the east. A constant characteristic throughout the four provinces has been the coupling of community college development with the idea of provincial service. (KM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC