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Parental rights and the surging demand for censorship in Canadian schools
Libraries are the battleground in censorship wars; academic freedom and critical thinking are casualties. What does this mean for students?
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When violence is the system speaking: What Ontario’s schools are telling us
Violence in classrooms is the result of staffing erosion and the offloading of social crises onto unprepared and underfunded schools
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The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose?
Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?
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Creating safe and inclusive schools in Ontario
The education system in Canada is a multi-faceted institution consisting of public, private, religious and independent forms of schooling. Each province adheres to their own…
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In Alberta, “parental rights” and privatization go hand in hand
In recent years, public education systems have become a battleground in a culture war fomented by the far right. The points of contention include manufactured…
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I am become woke, destroyer of schools
In early 2022, then-elementary school teacher, Caroline Burjoski (or the ‘cancelled teacher,’ as she later self-branded), attempted to expose what she characterized as wildly inappropriate…
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The emotional discourses of parental rights: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act
Across the globe, governments are passing anti-LGBTQ+ curriculum laws that curtail queer and gender-inclusive education initiatives, prohibit trans students’ inclusion in sports, and require the…
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Wrong, again: The political evolution of “parental rights”
As editors, each of us came to this special issue of Our Schools/Our Selves with both shared and distinct concerns about the recent iteration of…
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It was the best of times: Tracing the roots of the “parental rights” movement
I have always been a fan of how historical narratives evolve, and how they influence current contexts. And, often, how that history is then erased…
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Gender shocks, public education, and the crisis of democratic care
The rise of Canada’s parental rights movement isn’t just about sex ed or trans youth—it marks the return of an ideological project that seeks to…
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Parental rights as privatization
As a public education advocate, I am particularly attuned to the ways that the “parental rights” (PR) movement has been used to undermine faith in…
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Discrimination through deception: The parental rights movement’s school board strategy
In spite of the role trustees play in communities across the country, school board elections in Canada have historically been rather perfunctory affairs, often beset…
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