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  • Macleans

    Ontario Teachers Return to Class (Nov97 Updates)

    Over the past few weeks, Jamie McAlpine and his wife, Ann, had several intense and emotional discussions across the kitchen table about the provincewide teachers' strike that gave 2.1 million Ontario children an unscheduled holiday.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 17, 1997

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    Open Learning Agency

    The Open Learning Agency (OLA), located in Burnaby, BC, is a fully accredited public educational institution, committed to providing lifelong learning opportunities to British Columbians and learners around the world.

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    Orff Approach

    The Orff approach, also known as Orff-Schulwerk or Music for Children, is an approach to music education conceived by the German composer Carl Orff (1895-1982). It was developed in the 1920s and 1930s while Orff was music director of the Günther-Schule, a school of dance and music in Munich. The guiding principles were contained in his publication Orff-Schulwerk (Mainz 1930-5), to which revisions came later.

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    Palaeontology

    Palaeontology is the study of fossils, gives us knowledge of past life, helps us understand the nature of ancient organisms and provides information about the composition of the biomass of past times. 

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    Parasitology

    Parasitology is a branch of biology dealing with organisms (animals or, rarely, plants) which live in or on other species (hosts) from which they derive nourishment. 

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    Philosophy: Historical Scholarship

    Philosophy is distinctive among the areas of the humanities and social sciences for its interest in texts from its own distant past and for its investigation of that past.

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    Physical Education (Kinesiology)

    Kinesiology, a branch of the educational curricula of every province in Canada which originated with a variety of forms of activity and concepts such as drill, calisthenics, gymnastics, physical training and physical culture.

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    Piano Playing and Teaching

    The piano has maintained a position of prominence in many Canadian homes since the late 18th century. Canadians have thrived on this instrument, and Canada has produced some of the best pianists, piano instructors, and piano methods in the latter part of the 20th century.

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    Playing and teaching woodwinds

    The woodwind instruments in wide use in Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries were flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, and recorder; and, in the orchestra, piccolo, english horn, bass clarinet, and contrabassoon.

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    Private School

    Fee-supported educational institutions at the primary and secondary level not under direct government control have existed in Canada from the earliest years of white settlement to the present day. Until the 1830s, most schooling was private.

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    Professional Education

    Music education, professional. The musical training needed by a performer, composer, teacher or scholar if he or she is to function at a level of adequacy or excellence both artistically and economically.

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    Public School

    Public school refers to provincially controlled, tax-supported schools which are normally available to school-age children who live within a school district.

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  • Macleans

    Public School Shakeup

    To some, it heralded a decisive victory for fiscal sensibility and grassroots democracy. To others, it was a crushing defeat.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 3, 1997

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    Quebec Music Educators' Association

    Quebec Music Educators' Association (QMEA). An association of English-speaking music educators of Quebec formed in 1968.

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    Queen's Quarterly

    The Queen's Quarterly, founded 1893 at Queen's University, largely on the initiative of Queen's president G.M. GRANT, is the oldest of Canadian scholarly journals.

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