Howard Woodhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 461048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Woodhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodhouse |
| SIGNATURE | WOODHOUSE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Reflections on Teacher Education
Critical Reflections on Teacher Education argues that educational philosophy can improve the quality of teacher education programs in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book documents the ways in which the market model of education propagated by governments and outside agencies hastens the decline of philosophy of education and turns teachers into technicians in hierarchical school systems. A grounding in educational philosoph…
Experience, Emotion, and Aesthetics
The Contested Terrain of Academic Freedom in Canada's Universities
Academic freedom has been a contested concept throughout its history, but it is a necessary condition for the advancement and dissemination of shared knowledge. It is an integral part of university education and research, and is intimately connected with collegial governance and the common good. In Canada's research-intensive universities, the threats to academic freedom are both internal and external. This article examines these issues and sugge…
Learning for Life
This article stems from the author’s experience as one of the organizers of an alternative form of higher education, which drew its inspiration from the civil commons. In the early years of the new millennium, the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) offered a wide variety of courses to members of the public without charge, adopting as its founding principle the belief that “Everyone can learn, Everyone can teach.” As a form of communit…
Eastern, Western, or Pan-European? Recent Educational Change in the Czech Republic
Introduction: In a recent book, Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet, philosopher, former president of Czechoslovakia, and now president of the Czech Republic, poses the following question: "What will our schools be like?" Havel answers the question as follows: At all levels, schools must cultivate a spirit of free and independent thinking in the students. Schools will have to be humanized, both in the sense that their basic component must be the human…
Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country
(1987). Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country: Nigeria and cultural dependency. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 119-136
The hidden curriculum and beyond
Learning for Life
This article stems from the author’s experience as one of the organizers of an alternative form of higher education, which drew its inspiration from the civil commons. In the early years of the new millennium, the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) offered a wide variety of courses to members of the public without charge, adopting as its founding principle the belief that “Everyone can learn, Everyone can teach.” As a form of communit…
Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country
(1987). Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country: Nigeria and cultural dependency. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 119-136
The hidden curriculum and beyond
Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country
(1987). Knowledge, Power and the University in a Developing Country: Nigeria and cultural dependency. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 119-136
Eastern, Western, or Pan-European? Recent Educational Change in the Czech Republic
Introduction: In a recent book, Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet, philosopher, former president of Czechoslovakia, and now president of the Czech Republic, poses the following question: "What will our schools be like?" Havel answers the question as follows: At all levels, schools must cultivate a spirit of free and independent thinking in the students. Schools will have to be humanized, both in the sense that their basic component must be the human…
Learning for Life
This article stems from the author’s experience as one of the organizers of an alternative form of higher education, which drew its inspiration from the civil commons. In the early years of the new millennium, the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) offered a wide variety of courses to members of the public without charge, adopting as its founding principle the belief that “Everyone can learn, Everyone can teach.” As a form of communit…
The Contested Terrain of Academic Freedom in Canada's Universities
Academic freedom has been a contested concept throughout its history, but it is a necessary condition for the advancement and dissemination of shared knowledge. It is an integral part of university education and research, and is intimately connected with collegial governance and the common good. In Canada's research-intensive universities, the threats to academic freedom are both internal and external. This article examines these issues and sugge…
Experience, Emotion, and Aesthetics
Critical Reflections on Teacher Education
Critical Reflections on Teacher Education argues that educational philosophy can improve the quality of teacher education programs in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book documents the ways in which the market model of education propagated by governments and outside agencies hastens the decline of philosophy of education and turns teachers into technicians in hierarchical school systems. A grounding in educational philosoph…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)