{"id":221,"date":"2011-06-02T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:27:23","slug":"future-of-canadian-education-vis-a-vis-supple-edu-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/06\/02\/future-of-canadian-education-vis-a-vis-supple-edu-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sense of the Future of Canadian Education vis-a-vis Supplementary Education in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, I wrote an article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea-ace.ca\/education-canada\">Education Canada<\/a>, published by the Canadian Education Association, that a) reported on the current state of (research on) supplementary education in Japan, and b) speculated a bit about what an understanding of juku implies for the trajectory of Canadian education. In this discussion of the Canadian context, I relied on a quick-and-dirty survey of supplementary education institutions in the Lower Mainland that I did together with intern Sabrina Lohner in the summer of 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In this survey, we found 74 tutoring centres and other supplementary education institutions in the Vancouver area.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly half of these supplementary education businesses promoted themselves in more languages than just English and many of them seemed to be branding themselves specifically in a way to appeal to Asian-Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The full article is freely available on the Education Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea-ace.ca\/education-canada\/article\/supplementary-education-global-growth-japans-experience-canadas-future\">website<\/a> or as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea-ace.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/EdCan-2008-v48-n4-Dierkes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarizes a 2008 &#8220;Education Canada&#8221; article on supplementary education in Japan and its spread in Canada, more specifically in Vancouver. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/2011\/06\/02\/future-of-canadian-education-vis-a-vis-supple-edu-2008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247693,68,247658,247694,247661,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertizing","category-canada","category-juku-in-japan","category-julian-dierkes","category-supplementary-education-general","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jukupedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}