The devastating impacts of climate change are clear. But there are disturbing revelations about how global elites are tackling the issue. Al Gore—on one hand — promotes carbon emissions trading and green technologies as a solution, and—on the other—profits handsomely from his timely investments in those same initiatives. Infamous climate change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg recommends free market solutions to fight global poverty and disease. And it’s these solutions that almost exclusively receive the attention of world leaders, so-called experts and media pundits.
Climate Change—Who’s Carrying the Burden? rallies the call of climate justice advocates and activists concerned with ‘system change not climate change’. This call demands control of local resources, the restitution of past wrongs, and the willingness to conceive and accept different modes of living and seeing.
The contributors to this book draw attention to the disparity between climate change and social justice concerns. They seek to confound, confuse and extend what constitutes the meaning of climate change. They juxtapose and make connections between climate change and the chilly climates that exclude and marginalize groups and individuals who live and imagine different ways of interacting that are more respectful of social and environmental relationships.
What kinds of messages are today's youth receiving in their lives? What
normative values are educational institutions creating for them? Where does
racism fit? What impact is it having? Is it being challenged and, if so,
how and by whom?
These are some of the questions the spring issue of Our Schools/Our Selves - Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action seeks to answer. In so doing, it identifies many of the challenges faced by Aboriginal and racialized people in our classrooms at all levels of the education system, and offers theoretical and practical approaches to addressing these challenges through educational policy and programs. It also examines the relationship of educational institutions to other public and private sector bodies as well as to broader societal values. Edited by author, poet and playwright Charles C. Smith, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action is an exciting, ambitious, timely and challenging collection of articles by some of the founders of the anti-racism in education movement, as well as a number of new voices.
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In partnership with RealRenewal, CCPA Saskatchewan is proud to present an education workshop for people who want a voice in the system.
Featuring Jacqui Strachan, Parent Involvement Coordinator, People for Education, Ontario.
Discussion Roundtables on Saskatchewan Aboriginal/First Nations, Rural and Urban Education Issues
Sunday, March 14, 2010
1:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Pasqua Neighbourhood Centre, Regina
263 Lewvan Dr. (off Wascana St.)
Free of Charge - Childcare Provided.
Limited seats. Please register online at www.realrenewal.org or call 585-4449.
For more information, visit us here.
In the Winter 2010 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves editors Larry Kuehn and Erika Shaker delve into the struggle between the demands for standardization and the reality of diversity in education.
Our Schools/Our Selves: The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? looks at different concepts that question "the Achievement Agenda", something that repeatedly appears to privilege narrow evaluation over broad, authentic education and learning, and standardization over diversity.
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A new CCPA report on education funding in Ontario by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie finds the province lags far behind most peer jurisdictions in North America. Forty-five U.S. states and eight Canadian jurisdictions spend more per-student than Ontario. The study calls for a major overhaul in Ontario's education funding formula. Click here to read more and download the full report.
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