CANADIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Educational Systems
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Agricultural Age Educational System:
Invention of writing with need to keep records of planting and harvests, taxation and barter, in agricultural age; education limited to an elite. (Earlier focus on oral traditions--from elders, during hunting and gathering age).
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Industrial Age Educational System:
Mass public education: similar stanadrds for all, which was considered democractic; an educated middle class seen as foundation for a democractic society; traditional educational institutions have monopoly on learning.
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Information Age Educational System:
Diversified educational models necessary to meet diverse needs of students of all ages and different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; lifetime learning necessary to keep updated in one's field, as technological and social changes escalate; retraining of industrial workers necessary; community and corporate learning centers, in addition to traditional educational institutions; also distance learning computer/multmedia/interactive educational packages, internet, and virtual reality as additional tools for learning
Information/Data on Canada's Educational System
Each province of Canada is responsible for its own educational system. In all provinces, education is cumpulsory for eight years beginning at the age six or seven, Primary and secondary education is free. New Foundland has a public-donominational system; every school uses similar curricula, but the schools themselves are operated by different religious groups. All provinces have their own public universities. College attendance has rise from 16 percent (of college age people) in 1960 to nearly 10% today. About 10% of the total population holds university degress. The literacy rate is 99%.
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Educational System)
Agricultural age (Its Educational System)
Additional Online Sources on Canada's Educational System
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canada's Educational System
Cultrgram 96
World fact book
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