Terry Wotherspoon

 Terry Wotherspoon

Terry Wotherspoon

  • Courses6
  • Reviews12

Biography

University of Saskatchewan - Social Science


Resume

  • 1997

    University of Saskatchewan

    Head and Professor of Sociology

    University of Saskatchewan

    Department Head

    Sociology

    University of Saskatchewan

    President

    Canadian Sociologial Association

    University of Saskatchewan

    MA

    Sociology

    Simon Fraser University

    Ph.D.

  • The Sociology of Education in Canada

    The Sociology of Education in Canada - By Terry Wotherspoon from Oxford University Press Canada

    Teaching

    Social Sciences

    Higher Education

    Program Evaluation

    Qualitative Research

    Theory

    University Teaching

    Academic Writing

    Grant Writing

    Research Design

    Lecturing

    Policy Analysis

    The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling

    The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling

    The hopes and frustrations of Indigenous students are given focus in this work

    which examines prospects for improved educational outcomes and experiences against a background that includes historical legacy of residential schooling and other school practices that have suppressed and oppressed Indigenous people.

    The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education

    Oppression

    and Emancipation (with Bernard Schissel)

    Informed by sociological perspectives on education

    the book offers a critical understanding of education systems and issues in the Canadian context. Major themes include analysis of the historical development of education in Canada

    educational policy and practices

    teachers and teaching

    social inequality

    school work pathways

    and emerging educational challenges and controversies

    The Sociology of Education in Canada: Critical Perspectives

    5th edition.

    Analyses of several dimensions associated with efforts to transform education in Canada through fiscal cutbacks and resource reallocation

    organizational change

    and other initiatives. The work focuses on the impact of these processes on particular groups of educational participants

    with special attention to class

    race and gender relations.

    Hitting the Books: The Politics of Educational Retrenchment

    This work offers a critical analysis that enables us to understand the diverse realities of Aboriginal people within changing Canadian and global contexts. The book provides an extended analysis of how changing social dynamics

    organized particularly around race

    class

    and gender relations

    have shaped the life chances and conditions for Aboriginal people within the structure of Canadian society and its major institutional forms

    First Nations: Race

    Class

    and Gender Relations (with Vic Satzewich)

    A critical analysis of the distinct ways in which two nations

    Canada and the Netherlands

    have adopted multicultural policies in order to address changing forms of social and economic diversity.

    Multicultural Education in a Changing Global Economy: Canada and the Netherlands (coedited with Paul Jungbluth)

    Terry

    Wotherspoon

    Canadian Sociologial Association

    University of Saskatchewan

SOC 233

4.2(5)

SOC 303

3.7(3)

SOCTHEORY

4(1)