Education Project

In spring 2009 we dedicated an entire issue of Our Schools / Our Selves to the topic of child care in Canada, and over a year later Beyond Child’s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada remains one of the most detailed, up-to-date and thorough publications on the subject. It brings together Canada’s leading researchers, writers and activists who have contributed so much to the debates about -- and knowledge of -- how we can best care for and educate our most vulnerable, and how we must support families in this enormously important responsibility. 
 
Recent comments by Conservative MP Diane Finley have once again propelled child care into the public spotlight; sadly, they have also refueled a number of myths and misperceptions about the subject: who benefits, who uses it and how we should pay for it. To provide you with the best information there is about child care in Canada, we are making the entire issue of Beyond Child’s Play available for download. Read, enjoy, and pass this information on. 

Pre-orders have started for a new CCPA book with a critical eye on feminism, edited by Jessica Yee: a frequent CCPA contributor, founder of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, and one of The Toronto Star's 'people to watch' of 2010.

Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism provides thoughtful, honest and unapologetic insight into how marginalized communities; including Indigenous and women of colour, sex workers, disABLEd, queer, Two-Spirited and trans youth define and relate to feminism; what it means to them -- and more importantly, what it doesn't mean.

• Click here to pre-order your copy of Feminism FOR REAL.
• Are you on Facebook?  Join the discussion and follow along as the book launches across Canada. Be sure to "Like" the Feminism FOR REAL Facebook page to stay up-to-date.
  
• In Toronto on Feb. 25?  Then don't miss the Feminism FOR REAL national book launch.
  

A new commentary by Erika Shaker asks whether an Ipsos Reid poll indicating overwhelming public support for corporate sponsorship of public school libraries has anything to do with the sponsor of the poll: Indigo Books.  Click here to read about the campaign.

Join us on October 4, 2010 for a one-day conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough celebrating the release of "Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action." The day will feature Charles C. Smith (editor) and prominent thinkers including George Dei, Tim McCaskell, Tina Lopes, Carol Schick, Carol Tator, Frances Henry, Leanne Taylor and others to discuss the role of education in fighting racism. We hope you can join us for an event that promises to be exciting, informative and provocative.

Click here for more information.