La "gouvernance" de l'éducation au Canada: Tendances et significations

Abstract

This text examines the education policies of Canada's provinces and territories from the angle of governance evolution. It is based on the analysis of empirical data from case studies (approximately 25 pages each) about the education policies of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories as well as their evolution since 1990. It is argued that the importance of standard-based governance (defined by education managers in keeping with international institutions), the centralisation of curriculum and assessment observable in many provinces and territories, the will to grant more powers to parents (wider school choice for example) point to the externalisation of education. What is meant is the relatively autonomous process of penetration and transformation by strategies external to a field of activity. The free market-oriented governance extends this policy of externalisation and gradually transforms education into a market product.