What Could a University Be?
Revolutionary Ideas for the Future
What Could a University Be? identifies new ideas that can help refocus the university on educating its students and having a greater positive impact in society.
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition
A Canadian Obligation
Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.
Drumming Our Way Home
Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Drumming Our Way Home takes readers on an autobiographical journey to recover Indigenous identity, demonstrating how storytelling – aided by a hand drum – can open up a new world of pedagogy and culture-based learning.
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers
Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers amasses vital, data-driven research that both corroborates enduring accounts of inequality for women academics and offers pathways toward substantive policy change.
Fighting Feelings
Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life
Fighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.
The Deliberate Doctorate
A Values-Focused Journey to your PhD
The Deliberate Doctorate shows postgraduate students how their PhD journey can be driven by purpose when it is grounded in their core values and aligned with their future plans.
Lessons in Legitimacy
Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia
Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.
Braided Learning
Illuminating Indigenous Presence through Art and Story
In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi educator Susan Dion inspires engagement with the histories and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, cultivating capacities for understanding, attunement, and respect.
The Successful TA
A Practical Approach to Effective Teaching
Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with course instructors to giving students feedback on their work.
Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools
Rethinking the Role of Law
This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.
Making the Case
2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools
Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ students in Canadian schools.
You @ the U
A Guided Tour through Your First Year of University
In this essential guide, university counsellor Janet Miller draws on her wit, wisdom, and decades of experience to help first-time students – of whatever age – prep for and survive their first year of university.
Transforming the Canadian History Classroom
Imagining a New "We"
Transforming the Canadian History Classroom is a call for a radically innovative practice that places students – the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of – at the centre of history education.
It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not)
Mental Health Tips and Self-Care Strategies for Your Undergrad Years
It’s All Good (Unless It’s Not) explores frequent sources of undergraduate mental distress and the steps students can take to meet those challenges head-on.
Knowing the Past, Facing the Future
Indigenous Education in Canada
Knowing the Past, Facing the Future offers a sweeping account of Indigenous education in Canada, from the first treaty promises and the failure of government-run schools to illuminating discussions of what needs to change now to work toward reconciliation.
Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949
Bringing together the world’s leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives within a comparative context to expose the role of military education in maintaining empire.
Postsecondary Education in British Columbia
Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960–2015
Postsecondary Education in British Columbia is a thoughtful critical analysis of the role of social justice, human capital, and the market in the development of institutions and public policy in BC education since 1960.
Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law
This powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.
Am I Safe Here?
LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools
Am I Safe Here? treats LGBTQ students as the experts in their own schools, revealing that, to achieve safety and equity, nothing less than a total culture change is needed.
The Equity Myth
Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
Challenging the myth of equity in higher education, this is the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and Indigenous faculty members’ experiences in Canadian universities.
Learning and Teaching Together
Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
An inspirational account of how a group of pre-service teachers, working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers in British Columbia, developed an indigenist approach to education that can be applied in a wide variety of classrooms.
Queering Social Work Education
The first book of its kind in North America, this collection of original works promises to transform the future of social work education by equipping scholars and students with a new appreciation of queer strengths and experiences.
Museums and the Past
Constructing Historical Consciousness
This vibrant examination of the museum’s role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents.
What We Learned
Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
Moving beyond the more familiar stories of residential schools, two generations of Tsimshian students recall their experiences attending day and public schools in northwestern British Columbia.
So They Want Us to Learn French
Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada
So They Want Us to Learn French examines how and why Canadians both embraced and virulently opposed the ideal of personal bilingualism over the past fifty years, detailing and analyzing the strategies that social movements on both sides used to advance their goals.
Insider’s Guide to K–12 Education in BC
This comprehensive guide offers real-life answers to real-life questions about British Columbia’s school system.
How to Succeed at University (and Get a Great Job!)
Mastering the Critical Skills You Need for School, Work, and Life
This practical, easy-to-read guide shows you how to master the critical skills needed for school, work, and life.
More Indian Ernie
Insights from the Streets
Retired Police Sergeant Ernie Louttit heads back to the streets in his second book, giving readers a rare glimpse of the realities a street cop faces dealing with prostitutes, street gangs, drunk drivers, and other offenders.
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) educational concepts, this book provides a new theoretical and practical model for teaching Indigenous students.
Engaging Imagination in Ecological Education
Practical Strategies for Teachers
This book illustrates how to connect students to the natural world and encourage them to care about a more sustainable, ecologically secure planet.
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
A timely assessment of a successful initiative to support Aboriginal cultural ways and worldviews in one Ontario high school.
The Public Sociology Debate
Ethics and Engagement
Leading Canadian experts discuss when – and if – sociologists should intervene in public debates and engage in social activism.
Unthinkable Thoughts
Academic Freedom and the One-State Model for Israel and Palestine
This book presents a case study of an academic conference where various actors sought to circumscribe the exploration of a controversial idea – the one-state model for Israel and Palestine – and it throws into stark relief the vulnerability and importance of academic freedom.
Indian Ernie
Perspectives on Policing and Leadership by Ernie Louttit
Retired police sergeant Ernie Louttit shares stories from the streets of Saskatoon, struggling to bring justice to communities where the lines between criminal and victim often blurred.
Decolonizing Education
Nourishing the Learning Spirit
An impassioned argument for Aboriginal education and critical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and traditions.
Nutrition and Health Teacher Resource
This resource provides teachers with everything they need to plan, teach and assess in on comprehensive resource, supporting the use of the Nutrition and Health Student Resource.
Living Indigenous Leadership
Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities
Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.
“Don’t Be So Gay!”
Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe
Queer students speak out in a book that seeks to address the problem of homophobic bullying in schools.
A School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China’s early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed.
MathWorks 12 Student Workbook Solutions
This resource provides complete worked solutions to the questions in the MathWorks 12 Workbook.
Child and Youth Care
Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy
This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
New Possibilities for the Past
Shaping History Education in Canada
Canadian historians and educators discuss current debates about history education and historical knowledge to develop an innovative agenda for research and practice in the new millennium.
Keeping the Nation's House
Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China
Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women – home economists – who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.
Contesting White Supremacy
School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
By drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.
Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic
The first history of educational policy, practice, and decision making in the Eastern Arctic, now Nunavut.
A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
This book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present.
Braiding Histories
Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences and Perspectives
The Exchange University
Corporatization of Academic Culture
This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.