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Ancient Mariner Speaks
Examining Regimes of Truth in ADHD
Marion Stordy
The number of children labelled ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has been on the increase since the term entered common medical parlance thirty years ago. Through a deeply personal narrative and an analysis of Michel Foucault’s theories on truth, power and knowledge, The Ancient Mariner Speaks argues that the ADHD label has contributed to the pathologizing of children’s, particularly boys’, behaviour and the further marginalization and exclusion, rather than inclusion… (more information)
Anti-Racism Education
Theory and Practice
George Dei
Dei argues that analyzing the intersections of race, class, gender and sexual oppression is essential if we are to fully address educational equity, social justice and change. He examines how we can value our differences while equitably sharing power, and discusses ways to counter the reproduction of societal inequalities in our schools. (more information)
Becoming an Ally, 2nd Edition
Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in People
Anne Bishop
Praise for the first Edition: After my second reading of Becoming An Ally, I see many more reprints of the well-argued, well-researched, nonpolemical but gentle and helpful book. Absorbing the topic is made that much easier by the comfortable and yet authoritative tone Ms. Bishop uses. The book makes a good friend. It listens and teaches, and it urges courage and trust. Heather Haas Barclay, Ontario Association of Social Workers Western Branch Newsletter, Sept. 2001 This new edition is expanded… (more information)
Between Hope and Despair
Women Learning Politics
Donna M. Chovanec
This book is an empirical account of political learning in social movements based on a study of a women’s movement in Arica, Chile. In the first part of the book the author tells the story of how the women of Arica organized to oppose the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This gripping narrative, told through the women’s own words and experiences, paints a graphic picture of their courage and determination. The second part focuses on the political learning and educational processes… (more information)
Circleworks
Transforming Eurocentric Conciousness
Fyre Jean Graveline
This book is intended to contribute to both the theoretical debate and classroom practice in the field of education. It explores the legitimacy of Aboriginal, holistic paradigms within some of the diverse frameworks available to educators: experiential learning, feminist and anti-racist pedagogies are emphasized. It documents an effort to interrupt current Aboriginal/European power relations by evolving an alternative Aboriginal teaching model and enacting it within university classrooms. This work… (more information)
Class Dismissed
Why We Cannot Teach or Learn our Way out of Inequality
John Marsh
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Confronting Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Their Lives Out of Balance
Robert Locke, J.-C. Spender
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of the economic engines vital to our growth and social progress now seem closer to the rapacious ‘robber barons’ of the 1880s. In effect, responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby… (more information)
Cultural Inclusion
Supporting Children to Value Diversity and Challenge Racial Prejudice
Cultural Inclusion brings together the knowledge, skills and understanding required for early childhood professionals and parents to respond proactively on issues of racism. Not only does it provide culturally appropriate care and education for children, it also supports equitable access for parents from culturally diverse back-grounds, and a range of programming activities and strategies for all children. This professional resource includes a 45-minute video (VHS, CD or DVD) and a training manual… (more information)
Doing Missionary Work
The World Bank and the Diffusion of Financial Practices
Dean Neu, Elizabeth Ocampo
The more things change, the more they remain the same: the image of David Livingstone toiling in Africa has been replaced by the image of a well-dressed World Bank bureaucrat travelling by jet, dropping in to consult with governments in the developing world before returning home. Likewise, the tools of missionary work have changed. While the promise of betterment and salvation remains, a testament that talks about planning mechanisms, performance indicators and financial reports has replaced the… (more information)
Gender and Collaboration
Communication Styles in the Engineering Classroom
Sandra Ingram, Anne Parker
As more women enter male-dominated faculties such as engineering, there is a growing need to understand the set of social processes that impact upon them and the continuing need for curriculum reform. This understanding is crucially important for engineering students because of the increasing demand put on them to work in team-based environments in which they will need the collaborative skills of shared interaction, decision-making and responsibility. (more information)
Intrigues of Archbishop John T. McNally and the Rise of Saint Mary’s University
Peter McGuigan
Archbishop John T. McNally never let a little opposition get in the way of what he believed was a good idea. An educator and a builder, he fought for years to transform Saint Mary’s College into a respected university, despite steadfast opposition from within the church and the Halifax community. This book traces the rise of Saint Mary’s College and McNally’s ironed-will commitment to the generation of students that walk the Halifax campus today. (more information)
Learning to Leave
The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community
Michael Corbett
It has been argued that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of social and cultural elevation, then it must be generic and transcend the specificity of the locale. Corbett’s case study of Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, which shows continuing rates of highschool drop-out among youth in rural and coastal communities, particularly among young men, illustrates the failure of this approach. (more information)
Life at the Intersection
Community, Class and Schooling
Carl James
The intersection of Jane and Finch in Toronto’s north end has long been portrayed as one of Canada’s most troubled neighbourhoods, with images of social dysfunction, shootings and “at risk” youth dominating media accounts. Setting out to discover what it means — and what it takes — to grow up in this economically disadvantaged and racially and ethnically diverse neighbourhood, Life at the Intersection engages young people, parents and educators to explore the… (more information)
Lumpencity
Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
Edited by Alan Bourke, Tia Dafnos, Markus Kip
While it has been fashionable to think that academic research benefits marginalized groups, representational and methodological choices have often served to produce and legitimize marginalizing practices. The contributions to this volume reveal how authors have sought to engage with and transform their scholarly repertoires into tools of analysis useful for political action. We hope to encourage scholars, activists, and activist-scholars to reflect upon the complementarity of their academic and… (more information)
Maternal Pedagogies
In and Outside the Classroom
Edited by Deborah Byrd, Fiona Green
Maternal pedagogies is a term the co-editors use to describe scholarship that examines from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, cultures, and subject positions (1) ways in which culturally dominant ideologies about motherhood are taught or challenged, (2) ways in which various paradigms of maternal thinking, being, and acting are constructed, embedded, enacted or resisted in specific teaching and learning situations—including those that take place outside classroom and school settings, (… (more information)
No Going Back
Women as University Students
Patricia Campbell
Allowing women to tell their stories in their own voices, this book reveals their collective experience in all its complexity. (more information)
On Time! On Task! On a Mission!
A Year in the Life of a Middle School Principal
Christopher M. Spence
On his first tour of Lawrence Heights Middle School, Chris Spence was led past defaced bulletin boards in hallways scribbled with graffiti. Peering into the library, he saw kids with their feet on the tables, competing to see who could throw books farthest out the window. Police were called routinely to break up fights. Two boys had recently been suspended for “mooning” their female teacher. More than half the teachers transferred annually. It was June 1997 and Lawrence Heights was… (more information)
Out of the Depths (New Extended Edition)
The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Childrn at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Isabelle Knockwood
“The Residential School experience had serious negative consequences for many of our people who have suffered in silence for too long. It is time to take the first step and let others know they are not alone in their suffering. No matter how painful, the stories of our people must be told and heard. Through sharing our past, we can begin to heal ourselves, our communities, our people as we look to a better tomorrow.” —Phil Fontaine, Grand Chief, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, former… (more information)
Partners for Progress
A Canada-Africa Venture in University Building
Edited by Michael J. Larsen, James H. Morrison
Education is the only self-generating energy source ever discovered by human beings, and higher education has proven to be the most effective and efficient route to our social, cultural and economic growth and well-being. Tragically, the poorer nations of the developing world must send many of their most promising students abroad for higher education only to lose them to the brighter prospects of the developed world. This was a dilemma known all too well to the people of The Gambia, West Africa.… (more information)
Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education
A Critical Reader
Edited by Margarida Aguiar, Agnes Calliste, George Dei
This book addresses questions of anti-racism and its connections with difference in a variety of educational settings and schooling practices. The focus is on systems, structures and relations of domination, and particularly the racist, classist and sexist construction of reality that serve as dominant paradigms for viewing and interpreting lives and historical realities. The contributors contend that anti-racist concerns with difference matter only if they contribute to an understanding of difference… (more information)
Teaching Controversy
Lisa Jakubowski, Livy Visano
Typically, all teaching is challenging but this challenge becomes most apparent when it involves controversy. Teaching invites the process of experiencing the connection between oneself and the “other.” It is also the expression of power and cultural control. Customarily, courses are produced to protect and promote particular perspectives, and their meanings are always negotiated among more powerful participants. Courses that refuse to grapple with controversial topics affirm a certain… (more information)
Tech High
Globalization and the Future of Canadian Education
Edited by Marita Moll
This collaboration of critical essays on the computerization of Canada’s schools examines the current technological revolution in the broader perspective of globalization and the neo-liberal agenda. The authors question the assumptions that technologically-enhanced education will save money, help students and teachers, and create a generation of well-paid knowledge workers. Computers may inform, but only teachers can help students analyze and interpret this information. The authors call for… (more information)
The Illusion of Inclusion
Women In Post Secondary Education
Jackie Stalker
Women have had limited access to some higher education in Canada for over a century, but their participation has never been equal to that of men. Both as students and as faculty, women continue to be discriminated against on Canadian campuses in ways ranging from the most systemic and institutional to the most interpersonal and subjective. Contributors to this anthology explore and explain various dimensions of the “illusion of inclusion,” the contradiction between the widespread belief… (more information)
The Skin I’m In
Racism, Sport and Education
Christopher M. Spence
This book discusses the role that sport participation plays in the lives of Black male high school students. As a former professional athlete himself, the author brings a firsthand personal quality to this study. As an educator he strives to counteract the problems associated with students who place sport participation ahead of academic achievement. Dr. Spence also seeks to educate educators to fight against inequality and racism in mainstream education and all of us to fight injustices in society… (more information)
The University as Text
Women and the University Context
Carol Schick
This book is an excellent analysis of how male-centric approaches and methods dominate university life. “Schick effectively raises stimulating questions that challenge the status quo of university education.” - Britta Santowski, Canadian Book Review Annual (more information)
Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities
The Contested Schoolhouse in Maritime Canada
Paul Bennett
Traditional schoolhouses and neighbourhood schools are disappearing at an alarming rate, making way for ”big box” schools that serve multiple communities and adhere to the logic of modernization, centralization and uniformity. In Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities, author Paul W. Bennett explores the phenomenon of school closures, focusing on Maritime Canada from 1850 until the present day. Here is a lively, stimulating book that examines the rise of common schooling from one-… (more information)
You Must be a Basketball Player
Rethinking Integration in the University
Anthony Stewart
“Courageous and peerless, accessible and engaging, Stewart’s critique of the unseemly whiteness of the academy is a tour de force. His account of white academic privilege, homogeneity, cowardice, and hypocrisy with respect to matters of race and integration proceeds with keen insight and telling intellectual rigor. His analysis of white academia’s ‘theoretical’ evisceration of race and its practical and discursive actualities is nothing short of brilliant. The indictment… (more information)