Manitoba School Research Articles

Empowering Nurses for Politically Astute Change in the Workplace

While studies of the shortage of nurses have documented the need for nurses to play a greater role in decision-making processes in their workplaces, it cannot be assumed that nurses have the confidence or skills for making changes in the workplace in politically astute ways that will be effective. This article describes a continuing education program that was designed to prepare nurses to realize their potential power and to develop skills for effectively bringing about changes in their workplaces. Based on a feminist model of empowerment, the program content and methods reflected three dimensions of empowerment: consciousness-raising, building self-esteem, and skill development. Both short- and long-term evaluations (immediate and at 7 months) demonstrated that education can be a vehicle for empowering nurses to effectively bring about changes in their workplaces. The program was sponsored by the Manitoba Nurses Union, The University of Manitoba Continuing Education Division, and The University of Manitoba School of Nursing.

Examining School Environmental Constraints: A Comparative Study of Manitoba and Hong Kong Schools

Examining School Environmental Constraints: A Comparative Study of Manitoba and Hong Kong Schools

Parents' Reactions to Teacher Practices of Parent Involvement

The Elementary School Journal Volume 86, Number S O 1986 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0013-5984/86/8603-0002$01.00 Teachers have strong opinions about parent involvement. Some believe that they can be effective only if they obtain parental assistance on learning activities at home. Others believe that their professional status is in jeopardy if parents are involved in activities that are typically the teachers' responsibilities. The different philosophies and beliefs of teachers reflect the two main, opposing theories of school and family relations. One perspective emphasizes the inherent incompatibility, competition, and conflict between families and schools and supports the separation of the two institutions (Parsons, 1959; Waller, 1932; Weber, 1947). It assumes that school bureaucracies and family organizations are directed, respectively, by educators and parents, who can best fulfill their different goals, roles, and responsibilities independently. Thus, these distinct goals are achieved most efficiently and effectively when teachers maintain their professional, general standards and judgments about the children in their classrooms and when parents maintain their personal, particularistic standards and judgments about their children at home.

The Relationship between Academic Achievement and Teacher Expectations of Native Children in a Northern Manitoba School.

Age-grade retardation and academic deceleration among Native learners have motivated the authors to investigate the relationship between academic achievement and teacher expectations in a small northern Manitoba community school. Grade three and four children were administered the Canadian Test of Basic Skills to estimate their academic achievement. The Teacher Rating of Pupil Attitude was used to ascertain teacher expectations. Correlations were obtained using the Pearson Product- Moment correlation technique. The correlation between academic achievement and teacher expectations for grade three (N = 22) was statistically significant at .64 (p < .05); for grade four (N = 19) .45, significant at (p < .05); and for the total group (N =41) .50, significant at(p< .05). Recommendations center on the need to advance consciousness among teachers of Native learners of their potential influence on the achievement levels of their students. Communication of high expectations and related teaching competencies, specifically of a diagnostic-prescriptive nature, might be helpful in alleviating a problem that is already approximating crisis proportions. It is also suggested that a follow-up study with a larger sample, opportunities for cross-validation, and pre- and post-measures be carried out.

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Erna Schilder is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba School of Nursing, Manitoba, Canada.

Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896 Paul Crunican Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Pp. 369

Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896 Paul Crunican Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Pp. 369

Paul Crunican, Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. 323

Paul Crunican, Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974, pp. 323

CRUNICAN, Paul, Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1974, xii-369 p. $17.50.

CRUNICAN, Paul, Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1974, xii-369 p. $17.50.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 29, numéro 2, septembre 1975, p. 163-313) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

D'Alton McCarthy, Equal Rights, and the Origins of the Manitoba School Question

CANADIAN HISTORIANS have not been kind to D'Alton McCarthy, the maverick Tory. Even during his lifetime McCarthy was no stranger to public attacks, for, while his friends regarded him as 'a heroic nation-builder,' his opponents tended rather to view him as 'an irresponsible fanatic' who endangered the unity and stability of Canada in the last quarter of the nineteenth century? However, even his most critical contemporaries normally paid tribute to his ability and dedication, while wringing their hands at the uses to which his able mind was put and the consequences of his determined approach to the solution of cultural problems? Since McCarthy's death the tendency among historians has been to inter the good along with his bones, while keeping green forever the memory of his incendiary career and its evil consequences. McCarthy the able debater and acute legal mind fades from sight, and McCarthy the 'demagogue,' 'bigot,' or 'fanatic' assumes centre stage. Nowhere is the historians' one-sided treatment more clearly demonstrated than in what might fairly be called the standard or traditional explanation of the Manitoba school controversy ofthe 189OS. McCarthy's prominent role, first as leader of the Equal Rights League after 1893 , and then as counsel for the Manitoba government in the court cases that stemmed from the school legislation, has misled historians and caused them to attribute motives and purposes toMcCarthy's actions in 1889 that he had not yet acquired. According to the standard interpretation of the genesis of the Manitoba school controversy, McCarthy had become stranged from his party and prime minister

CLARK, Lovell, The Manitoba School Question: Majority Rule or Political Rights. "Issues in Canadian History", Copp Clark Publishing Company, Toronto, 1968. 230 p. $2.95.

CLARK, Lovell, The Manitoba School Question: Majority Rule or Political Rights. "Issues in Canadian History", Copp Clark Publishing Company, Toronto, 1968. 230 p. $2.95.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 25, numéro 3, décembre 1971, p. 309-463) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Some Letters from Archbishop Taché on the Manitoba School Question

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Some Letters from Archbishop Taché on the Manitoba School Question

Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of medieval, Renaissance, Italian, Iberian, Slavic, and urban studies, as well as studies in book and print culture.

The Campaign for a French Catholic School Inspector in the North–West Territories 1898–1903

MUCIt HAS BEEN WltITTEN ABOUT the Manitoba school question since Sir Charles Tupper failed to carry the 1896 general election on a platform of remedial egislation for that province's aggrieved Roman Catholic minority? Some attention has also been given to the less dramatic North-West school question which held the national stage briefly in 1894, after Sir John Thompson's Conservative government refused to disallow the School Ordinance (passed in December 1892) establishing state control of public education in the North-West Territories. 2 Little, however, has been written about subsequent developments, particularly those in the North-West. Of these, perhaps the most interesting are the negotiations between the Roman Catholic Church and the governments at Regina and Ottawa over the appointment ot• a French Catholic school inspector. During a five-year period church efforts, on occasion, approached the heroic. Neither government yielded, however, and the church came away empty-handed, only to regroup its forces for the next encounter. The inspectoral issue had its roots in a school law passed by the territorial Legislative Assembly in January 1892, transferring the

The First Flag of the Canadian Merchant Marine

THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL STEP by a Canadian government along the road to the legal establishment a d official recognition ofa distinctive Canadian flag was taken for the Canadian merchant marine. The events took place between 1888 and 1892 and involved three prime ministers, Macdonald, Abbott, and Thompson; the ministry principally concerned was the Department of Marine and Fisheries. When it began Macdonald was in the second year of his last full term as prime minister. The son of his steadfast old friend of Confederation days, Sir Charles Tupper, had recently been named Minister of Marine and Fisheries. The young Charles Hibbert Tupper, still in his 'thirties, energetic to the point of brashness, would see this matter through to its conclusion, beyond the death of the ageing leader. The events were widely spaced. Delays were not entirely deliberate; nor were they merely the evidence of a more leisurely pace when despatches moved by surface vessel and a mission to Washington was a maior undertaking. The marine flag was a secondary item of ministerial nd governmental business. Lesser matters tend to be set aside when larger subiects are pressing and many more important topics were troubling the administration. Norquay in Manitoba had ndt given up his battle against the C.P.R. monopoly. In the east, Mercier was striving to kindle fires of regionalism that could harm the federation. The Atlantic Fisheries Conference in Washington took time and attention, as did the later meeting held there to discuss disputes over sealing in the Behring Sea. The controversy over the Jesuit Estates Act in Quebec had no sooner begun to fade than the Manitoba schools question was in the offing. The Prime Minister himself was weary and concerned about his own future. In this atmosphere the flag question was from time to time pushed to one side-but never forgotten.

Testing the Cuisenaire method

The foregoing were some of the conclusions from the MTS (Manitoba Teachers' Society) Cuisenaire arithmetic experiment that involved eight Manitoba schools, sixteen classrooms with their teachers, and upwards of- five hundred children in Grade 3.

Respiration in Health and disease

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Uiversity of Manitoba School of Medicine; Director, Respiratory Division, Clinical Ivestigation Unit, and Assistant Physician, Winnipeg General Hospital: Cousultant in Respiratory Diseases to Children's Hospital and Municipal HospitalAssistant Professor of Medieine, University of Manitoa Schol of Medieine; Associate Physician, winnipeg General Hospital; Physician, Division of Medieine, Winnipeg Clinic, winnipeg, Canada. IllustratedAssistant Professor of Medical Illustratio, University of Manitoa School of Medicine, Winnipeg, Canada

Church, Schools, and Politics in Manitoba, 1903–12

Church, Schools, and Politics in Manitoba, 1903–12

Manitoba Schools and Canadian Nationality 1890-1923

Manitoba Schools and Canadian Nationality 1890-1923. Un article de la revue Report of the Annual Meeting / Rapports annuels de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 30, numéro 1, 1951, p. 1-86) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

The Manitoba School Question. — (I.)

The Manitoba School Question. — (I.)

The Manitoba School Question. — (II.)

The Manitoba School Question. — (II.)