"Real School" and the Changing Realities of Toronto's Alternative High Schools

• In Event: 43.074 - Aspects of Teacher's Work and Learning in Canadian Schools

Abstract

This paper explores student and teacher engagement, and how teachers and students negotiate the curriculum, in two contrasting Toronto secondary alternative schools, providing an assessment of current tensions between historic conceptions of “alternative” schooling and the changing realities with which they are contending.

Author

• Nina Bascia, University of Toronto - OISE