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Author: Rodney Clifton

Rodney A. Clifton is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Manitoba, where he has been teaching since 1979. He was born in Jasper, Alberta, and he taught at Memorial University for six years before moving to Manitoba. Dr. Clifton has a B.Ed. and a M.Ed. from the University of Alberta, a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Fil.Dir. in Comparative Education from the University of Stockholm. Over the last 30 years, he has published more than ninety research articles and five books and monographs. Dr. Clifton has won a number of research awards: the Spencer Fellowship from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement; the R.W.B. Jackson Research Award from the Canadian Educational Researchers' Association; and both the Edward Sheffield Award and the Distinguished Research Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.

Balancing Indigenous claims of institutional discrimination

If we go beyond the increasingly shrill voices, we can find stories of compassion and equality

Published April 26, 2018
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics Tagged Discrimination, Aboriginal Canadians, Racism, Public sector

A fundamental flaw at the centre of the Truth and Reconciliation report

The commission seems to have begun its work with a conclusion in mind, then spent six years and more than $60 million amassing evidence to support it

Published December 22, 2017
Categorised as Education, Viewpoint, Life, Politics Tagged Religion, Christianity, Aboriginal education, Residential Schools, Aboriginal Canadians, Aboriginal Politics

Undergraduate teaching needs to improve

university class speech

Our future depends on it

Published September 13, 2015
Categorised as Viewpoint, Today, Education

How to get Aboriginal kids’ grades up

A voucher system would ensure teachers have incentives to increase the time their students spend on literacy and numeracy

Published August 5, 2015
Categorised as Education, Politics, Today, Viewpoint Tagged Aboriginal Canadians, Aboriginal education

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