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  1. 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.
  2. Acadia University
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    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Aga Khan Foundation Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. 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.
  5. The Alberta Teachers' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. 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.
  7. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

    Resource Type: Book
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
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    Resource Type: Organization
  11. 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.
  12. The Bishop Strachan School
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    Resource Type: Organization
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Brandon University
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    Resource Type: Organization
  18. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  19. 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.
  20. Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants Inc. (CAPIC-ACCPI)
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    Resource Type: Organization
  21. Canadian Centre for Skills Development & Travel College Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  22. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. Canadian Council on Learning
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  24. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. 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.
  26. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  27. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  28. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  29. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  30. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  31. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  32. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  33. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  34. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  35. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  36. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  37. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
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    Resource Type: Organization
  38. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  39. Canadians for Genocide Education
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  40. Can-Fit-Pro
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  41. Centennial College
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  42. The Child in the Family
    Resource Type: Book
  43. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
  44. 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.
  45. Coming of Age in America
    Resource Type: Book
  46. Commuto Inc.
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    Resource Type: Organization
  47. Compulsory Education and the Amish
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Discusses the struggles of the Amish for their own schools.
  48. 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.
  49. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  50. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  51. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  52. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  53. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  54. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  55. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  56. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  57. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  58. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  59. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  60. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  61. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  62. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  63. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  64. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  65. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  66. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  67. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  68. 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
  69. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  70. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  71. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  72. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  78. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  79. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  80. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  81. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  82. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  83. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  84. Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
  85. Covenant House
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    Resource Type: Organization
  86. Crescent School
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  90. 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
  91. CSTD
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    Resource Type: Organization
  92. 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.
  93. Death at an Early Age
    Resource Type: Book
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. Deschooling Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  98. Dewey, John
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
  99. The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms
    Resource Type: Book
  100. 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.
  101. Durham College
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  102. 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.
  103. 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.
  104. Education and Income
    Resource Type: Book
  105. Education and the Cult of Efficiency
    Resource Type: Book
  106. 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.
  107. 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.
  108. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
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    Resource Type: Organization
  109. Encyclopedia of Education
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  110. Encyclopedia of Educational Research
    Resource Type: Book
  111. Encyclopedia of Higher Education
    Resource Type: Book
  112. 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.
  113. Experience and Education
    Resource Type: Book
  114. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  115. The Feminized Male
    Resource Type: Book
  116. 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
  117. 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.
  118. Freedom and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
  119. Freedom - Not License!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    A.S. Neill, the founder of Summerhill School, responds to questions about cdhild rearing.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. Frontier College
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  123. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. 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."
  127. The Holistic Curriculum
    Resource Type: Book
  128. 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.
  129. 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.
  130. 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.
  131. How Old Will You Be In 1984?
    Expressions of Student Outrage from the High School Free Press

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  132. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  133. How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  134. Human Resources Professionals Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  135. 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.
  136. Illich, Ivan
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
  137. In the Corporate Interest
    The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  138. 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."
  139. International Encyclopedia of Education
    Resource Type: Book
  140. An International Fraud
    Resource Type: Book
  141. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training

    Resource Type: Book
  142. 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.
  143. 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 children’s rights movement.
  144. 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.
  145. Lakehead University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  146. 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.
  147. Merle Langbord Levine, Learning Challenges and Remedial Education Expert
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  148. 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.
  149. The Little Red School-Book
    Resource Type: Book
  150. 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.
  151. Lutheran Church -- Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  152. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    A history of American English.
  153. Marxism & Education
    Resource Type: Website
    Documents on education and Marxism.
  154. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
  155. 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 nation’s 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.”
  156. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  157. National Union of Public and General Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  158. Neill, A. S.
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
  159. 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.
  160. 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."
  161. 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.
  162. On Education
    Especially in Early Childhood

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
  163. Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An article exploring elements of education in the USA.
  164. Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  165. Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  166. Ontario Professional Foresters Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  167. Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  168. Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1964
  172. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  173. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 4

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  174. 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.
  175. 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.
  176. 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.
  177. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  178. The Present Moment in Education
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  179. The Process of Education
    Resource Type: Book
  180. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
  181. 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.
  182. 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.
  183. 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.
  184. Revolution of the Deaf
    Resource Type: Article
  185. 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.
  186. Royal BC Museum
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  187. Savage Inequalities
    Children in America's Schools

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  188. School's Out
    The Catastrophe in Public Education And What We Can Do About It

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  189. Schule und Fabrik
    Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  190. 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.
  191. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  192. 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.
  193. 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.
  194. The Social Ideas of American Educators
    Resource Type: Book
  195. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  196. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  197. Sources Select Education Experts
    Resource Type: Website
    Education experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
  198. 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.
  199. 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.
  200. 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.
  201. 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.
  202. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  203. Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  204. 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 teacher’s 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.
  205. Teach My Celebrates ‘Screen-Free’ Week April 18-24
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Children are spending too much time with screens—and it's not good for them. For this reason, Teach My is pleased to recognize Screen-Free Week!
  206. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  207. Their Schools... Our Kids
    Resource Type: Article
  208. 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.
  209. 36 Children
    Resource Type: Book
  210. 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.
  211. This Magazine is about Schools
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
  212. This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
    Spring 1971 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1971
  213. 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.
  214. 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.
  215. 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.
  216. The Tyranny of Testing
    Resource Type: Book
  217. 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.
  218. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  219. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  220. The University of Toronto
    A History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  221. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  222. 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.
  223. 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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