- The ABC of Communism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1920 Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
- Acadia University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
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.
- The Alberta Teachers' Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Resource Type: Book
- Annie Kidder and People for Education have made a mark on Ontario schools, but have they become part of the system?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A look at the work of Annie Kidder, a public education advocate, who has spearheaded a grassroots movement that has given Ontario parents more of a voice in what goes on inside their children's classrooms.
- 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
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- The Bishop Strachan School
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Boarding School Opens Doors for Ontario Girls. The Bishop Strachan School (BSS) travels Ontario to meet potential students who qualify for enrolment into the unique Boarding program at Canada's oldest private girls school.
- Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids Resource Type: Film Published: 2004 The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences Resource Type: Book These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Brandon University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Brock University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants Inc. (CAPIC-ACCPI)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Centre for Skills Development & Travel College Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Council on Learning
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Union of Public Employees
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadians for Genocide Education
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Can-Fit-Pro
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Centennial College
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Child in the Family
Resource Type: Book
- 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 Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Coming of Age in America
Resource Type: Book
- Commuto Inc.
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Compulsory Education and the Amish
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 Discusses the struggles of the Amish for their own schools.
- Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
Resource Type: Book Published: 1964 Two books combined in a single volume. A far-ranging critique of the state of American eduation.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1994 Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- 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 Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
- Covenant House
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Crescent School
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
- The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article Published: 1967 Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
- Critical Paths
Organizing on health Issues in the community Resource Type: Book Published: 1989
- Critical pedagogy
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness
- CSTD
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- Death at an Early Age
Resource Type: Book
- A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article Published: 1958 No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Deschooling Our Lives
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
- Deschooling Society
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Dewey, John
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
- The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms
Resource Type: Book
- Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Resource Type: Book Published: 2017 After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected.
- Durham College
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Education Academics & Children Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to education, academics, and children in the Sources directory for the media.
- Education and Income
Resource Type: Book
- Education and the Cult of Efficiency
Resource Type: Book
- The Education Deform Fraud
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
- 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
- Encyclopedia of Education
Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- Encyclopedia of Educational Research
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
- Escape from Childhood
The Needs and Rights of Children Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 A book about young people and their place, or lack of place in society today. It is about the institution of modern childhood, the attitudes, customs and laws that define children and locate children in life and determine to a large degree what their lives are like and how we, their elders, treat them.
- Experience and Education
Resource Type: Book
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- The Feminized Male
Resource Type: Book
- FOCALPoint: Focus on education challenges in Latin America, improving quality in Bolivia and Venezuela
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The June edition of FOCALPoint focuses on education challenges in Latin America. It highlights the need to improve quality after significant advances were made in broadening access. Regional perspectives on challenges ahead are complemented by views
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- Freedom and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
- Freedom - Not License!
Resource Type: Book Published: 1966 A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School, responds to questions about cdhild rearing.
- Freedom Schools: The Curriculum
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Oppenheimer analyzes the curriculum taught in the 1964 Freedom Schools, which were designed to help Black students understand oppressive American social structures in and to think about them critically.
- The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet
A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem Solving for Children Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 This is a handy resource book for teachers, parents, and all those who work with children. It contains exercises and plans which help develop a community in which children are capable and desirous of open communication, and have self-confidence in their ability to think creatively about problems and about preventing and solving conflicts.
- Frontier College
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Growing Up Absurd
Resource Type: Book Published: 1962 Goodman offers a fundamental critique of the Organized System of semimonopolies, government, advertisers, etc., and the disaffection of the growing generation.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- The Holistic Curriculum
Resource Type: Book
- Home Sweet Home?
The Impact of Poor Housing on Health Resource Type: Book The authors set out to research three topics: the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious diseases; how and if housing deprivation impacts on overall health and finally the link between housing and health in the context of the range of other possible influences on health.
- Homeless
The Motel Kids of Orange County Resource Type: Film Published: 2010 Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
- How Children Fail
Resource Type: Book Published: 1964 The classroom should be a place of learning. Instead it is the scene of a continual battle in which teacher and child struggle to gain the advantage. The casualties are heavy. Some children fail outright. Others have the seeds of future failure implanted. And practically none come close to realizing their potential.
- How Old Will You Be In 1984?
Expressions of Student Outrage from the High School Free Press Resource Type: Book Published: 1969
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Human Resources Professionals Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- I Won't Learn from You
And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Instead of Education
Ways to Help People Do Things Better Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Holt returns to the old truth that we learn things by doing them. He says this has been forgotten by today's educators, who believe we shouldn't start to do things until after they have been "learned."
- International Encyclopedia of Education
Resource Type: Book
- An International Fraud
Resource Type: Book
- It's Our Own Knowledge
Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training Resource Type: Book
- Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
- John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging childrens rights movement.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Lakehead University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- Merle Langbord Levine, Learning Challenges and Remedial Education Expert
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- The Little Red School-Book
Resource Type: Book
- Living and Learning
The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario Resource Type: Article Published: 1969 The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
- Lutheran Church -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 A history of American English.
- Marxism & Education
Resource Type: Website Documents on education and Marxism.
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 An analysis of American capitalism.
- A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The religion of self-improvement is a way of redirecting criticisms or outrage from socio-economic structures back to the individual, imprisoning any reformist or revolutionary impulse within our own feelings of inadequacy which is why the process of improving our nations schools has taken on the tone of a spiritual cleansing rather than a political reckoning. Now, instead of saying our socioeconomic system is failing us, an entire generation of children will learn to say, I have failed myself.
- National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- National Union of Public and General Employees
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Neill, A. S.
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
- Neo-Racism in the Southwest
The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
- New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like these, I find I am pretty ready to think away all other political economic, and technological advantages."
- Un nouveau cours en ligne gratuit intitue Une introduction au rayonnement est maintenant disponible sur le site web de l?Institut de radioprote
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Un nouveau cours en ligne intitule 'Une introduction au rayonnement' est maintenant disponible sur le site web de l'Institut de radioprotection du Canada, au www.radiationsafety.ca.
- On Education
Especially in Early Childhood Resource Type: Book Published: 1960
- Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An article exploring elements of education in the USA.
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Professional Foresters Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Other Public Humanities
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Among the conclusions frequently drawn about the heavily reported "crisis in the humanities" is that humanities departments are woefully out of touch with today's students, with the new economy, with the public at large.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1964
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 4 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Physics Student to Physics Researcher - Top Scientists to Share Wisdom with the Researchers of Tomorrow
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Canadaâ##s Perimeter Institute, in partnership with University of Waterloo, has launched Perimeter Scholars International (PSI), a concentrated Masters level course for exceptional students who wish to become researchers in theoretical physics.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- The Present Moment in Education
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- The Process of Education
Resource Type: Book
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- 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.
- Revolution of the Deaf
Resource Type: Article
- Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- School's Out
The Catastrophe in Public Education And What We Can Do About It Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30 Resource Type: Book Published: 1972
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools? Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
- The Social Ideas of American Educators
Resource Type: Book
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Society of Citizens of the World
Resource Type: Book
- Sources Select Education Experts
Resource Type: Website Education experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Centre for Skills Development & Travel College Canada
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Louise Blazik is a Travel & Tourism Expert often interviewed by the media on TV and radio; world traveller; author; consultant and Training and Development Specialist.
- Strangers in Their Own Country
A Curriculum Guide on South Africa Resource Type: Book Strangers in Their Own Country introduces students and teachers to the lives and struggles of the people of South Africa. Designed as a manual for high school teachers, the book incorporates short stories, poems, role plays, simulations, news articles and historical readings to reveal the drama unfolding in Southern Africa.
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player Resource Type: Book Published: 1968
- Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Teach for America, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teachers unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.
- Teach My Celebrates Screen-Free Week April 18-24
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Children are spending too much time with screensand it's not good for them. For this reason, Teach My is pleased to recognize Screen-Free Week!
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Their Schools... Our Kids
Resource Type: Article
- Things My Students Don't Know
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 One of the discussion exercises I use in my course on corporate power begins with the bare text of the First Amendment projected on screen at the front of the room. I tell students that this is a recently proposed piece of federal legislation and invite their comments. I also say that if anyone has heard of the proposal, they should remain quiet for the time being and let others speak first.
- 36 Children
Resource Type: Book
- This Book Is About Schools
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970 A collection of articles from This Magazine is About School containing many first person narratives that argue that the current school system is rife with inequality and repression. Repo points out that "free" schools have less freedom than most people expect. One theme that does emerge is that through the emergence of common responsiblities in the 'free" system adult and children alike have started to feel like members of a large intense clan -- they have begun to feel like citizens for the first time.
- This Magazine is about Schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1973 A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 1971 issue Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1971
- Toronto District School Board twinning with injustice, says Jewish group
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Jewish solidarity group asks Toronto School Board to reconsider its links to joint project with the Jewish National Fund.
- The Training Trap
Ideology, Training and the Labour Market Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- The Tyranny of Testing
Resource Type: Book
- Uk needs modern mosques
The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
- Underground Times
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The University of Toronto
A History Resource Type: Book Published: 2002
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A Witness to Destroying Schools
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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