Reshaping the University
Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift
Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States
This volume compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge in educational systems.
Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.
Supporting Indigenous Children's Development
Community-University Partnerships
The authors show how an innovative program – an unexpected partnership between an Aboriginal tribal council and the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care – has strengthened community capacity to design and deliver culturally appropriate programs to support young children’s development.
Student Affairs
Experiencing Higher Education
This collection reveals how much institutional change has occurred in the social organization of postsecondary education, and how much more change is required to achieve equitable access and inclusion.
Earth in Mind
On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
The crises we face, noted educator David Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
Growth and Governance of Canadian Universities
An Insider's View
A veteran of university administration considers the effect of remarkable change on the growth and governance of the modern Canadian university.
No Place to Learn
Why Universities Aren't Working
Arguing that too much emphasis is placed on specialized research and too little on teaching, this book contends that students seeking higher education in Canada are being short-changed.
Aboriginal Education
Fulfilling the Promise
Documents the significant gains in recent years in fulfilling this promise of education – the heart of the struggle of Aboriginal peoples to regain control over their lives as communities and nations.
Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada
Past, Present, and Future
Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field.
Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University
Lively, impassioned and informed, these essays provide insight into the relationship between academic freedom and the inclusive university.
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision
This inspiring volume elaborates a new inclusive vision of a global and national order and articulates new approaches for protecting, healing, and restoring long-oppressed peoples, and for respecting their cultures and languages.
Education, Student Rights and the Charter
How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other human rights legislation apply to education.
The Power of Words
Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95
This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.
First Nations Education in Canada
The Circle Unfolds
Written mainly by First Nations and Metis people, this book examines current issues in First Nations education.
Taking Control
Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Challenge and Opportunity
Canada's Community Colleges at the Crossroads
This book provides a critical analysis of the most significant developments in the college systems in every province and territory since 1895.
Alex Lord's British Columbia
Recollections of a Rural School Inspector, 1915-1936
These memoirs invite the reader to experience the British Columbia that Alex Lord knew. Through his words, we endure the difficulties of travel in this mountainous province.
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2
The Challenge
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1
The Legacy
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.