Challenging Society’s Perceptions About Poverty
The harshness of the neoliberal agenda and the deep entrenchment of poverty and inequality was underscored earlier this year when several homeless people died on Toronto’s streets in the bitter cold. It reinforced the desperate need for a drastic shift in our national priorities to develop an antipoverty strategy that ensures basic dignity, security and community for everyone, but particularly our most vulnerable.
This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on how we as a society perceive what it means to live in poverty, or our perceptions about poverty. It also looks at how surveillance is naturalized, the continuing debates over Teach For Canada, new curriculum for teaching about climate justice, and much more.
Attachments
[Preview] Winter 2015: Table of Contents & Editorial
[Preview] Winter 2015: Organized Lightning: The liberal arts against neoliberalism
[Preview] Winter 2015: Invisible Lives: Vignettes of the working poor
[Preview] Winter 2015: Climate Justice in the Classroom: It connects everything together
About the author
Erika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began her career at the CCPA in 1997 as director of the Education Project. Originally established to monitor corporate intrusion in public education, the project broadened its focus to include standardized testing, social justice and anti-racism education in schools, educational equity, school finance, child care and early childhood education, tuition and user fees, technology, surveillance and privacy, the arts, and community-based education. In 2000 she also became editor of Our Schools/Our Selves, the popular education journal founded in 1988. It provides commentary and analysis on a wide variety of education-related topics. Erika has a BA in History from McGill University and an MA in English (critical literary analysis) from the University of Guelph. Prior to coming to the CCPA, she worked in Washington DC researching the corporatization of childhood, and was one of the founders of UNPLUG (which became the now-defunct Center for Commercial-Free Public Education). She spends far too much time on social media.
