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Class and the Crisis of Higher Education in North America
Anton L. Allahar(Anton L. Allahar ),James E. Côté(James E. Côté ) 한국캐나다학회 2015 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.21 No.1
A salient theme in the debate over the challenges facing the educational system concerns the failure to make the basic distinction between education, on the one hand, and training, on the other. The former speaks to the formation of well-rounded intellects in the tradition of the humanities and classical liberal studies, while the latter deals more narrowly with the technical and vocational aspects of acquiring specific job related skills. Thus, as Randal Collins notes, “most skills are-or can be-learned on the job so given the evidence that job skills of all sorts are actually acquired in the work situation rather than in a formal training institution” (1979:192-93), what needs to be stressed is the education of students as opposed to their training. This sentiment is captured by James Côté, and Anton Allahar (2011:14-16), who echo the earlier sentiments of Terry Wotherspoon, who states bluntly that: “Formal education is about much more than job training” (1998:133). Thus, if we are to address a key element in the crisis of higher education, we must all guard against the trend which sees universities being converted into pseudo-vocational institutions.
The Filipina Connection: the Face of Exploitation in Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
Angela G. Hick(Angela G. Hick ),Anton L. Allahar(Anton L. Allahar ) 한국캐나다학회 2011 Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS) Vol.17 No.1
In this paper we explore why the primary pool of employees in Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) are temporary migrant workers, particularly Filipinas, as well as how the Canadian government and its related institutions justify discrepancies in the rights and protections between Canadian workers and those who come legally under Canada’s various migrant worker schemes. In this context specific attention is paid to live-in caregivers or those women who come under the domestic worker scheme. The analysis of the Canadian Live-in Caregiver Program will highlight the dominant ideologies underlying and motivating the federal government’s justification for: (a) the continuation of the program despite great external resistance; (b) the subordinate status of live-in caregivers that derives from their position as “non-citizens;” (c) the subordinate position domestic workers experience as working class women of colour; and (d) the reasoning behind a reliance on female temporary migrant workers of a specific demographic to care for Canadian dependents. To frame the entire discussion we ask (rhetorically) how it is possible for a country such as Canada that prides itself on its positive human rights and worker rights reputation, to defend a program such as the LCP that goes against the much-celebrated image of ‘Canada the good.’