Description
First published in 1974, this book is a collection of some of the best articles on Canadian education from This Magazine, formerly This Magazine is About Schools.
Included is material on school textbooks, teaching the children of recent immigrants, "special education" for working-class kids, and the official use of drugs in the schools. In the introduction George Martell develops a radical reinterpretation of the development of the Canadian school system.
The Politics of the Canadian Public School offers radical critiques of the nation's education system published at a time of great change and upheaval.
About the author
GEORGE MARTELL teaches is in the Social Science Department of Atkinson College, York University. He is one of the founders of This Magazine and Our Schools/Our Selves.
