Back in January, the Globe and Mail reported it had
learned that parts of Dr. Spence’s dissertation, submitted in 1996 for his Ph.D. from OISE appear to have been copied from unattributed sources. The 239-page dissertation is entitled “The Effects of Sport Participation on the Academic and Career Aspirations of Black Male Student Athletes in Toronto High Schools” and was partly based on interviews with student athletes and educators.
However, passages are substantially similar to prior work which Dr. Spence does not attribute, and rely very heavily, in one section, on a 1991 book edited by Grant Jarvie, Sport, Racism and Ethnicity.You would think that the cancellation of Spence's PhD would be big news, but so far the media have remained mum on the subject. Do they know about it? If so, are they manifesting cricket chirrups to spare the man and the TDSB any further embarrassment and/or because they feel sorry for the compulsive copy-cat?
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That would be an Ed.D
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