- Acadia University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
- Association of Canadian Community Colleges
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
The national and international voice of Canada's colleges, institutes, cégeps, university colleges and polytechnics. ACCC represents, promotes and markets the strength of 150 member institutions to national and international governments, private sector firms and funding agencies.
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- Class Bias in Toronto Schools
Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
- EducationSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The author looks at gender segregation, drawing on her own personal experiences in Iran but also in a broader context and the resulting psychological damage done to girls from a very young age.
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
- No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Power of Critical Thinking
Effective Reasoning about Ordinary and Extraordinary Claims
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Discusses cognitive research on critical thinking and teaching strategies as well as excercises. Diagramming, verbal reasoning, and drawing are employed in the practice of critical thinking.
- The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
- This Magazine is about Schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1966
A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
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