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Indigo’s “For the Love of Indigo” school library fundraising campaign
Did you know that parents want their children to have access to well-stocked libraries in their schools? Were you aware that they’re very concerned that…
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Climate Change – Who’s Carrying the Burden?
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…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2010
The School as Community Hub: Beyond Education’s Iron Cage The summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, the third in the “Iron Cage” series, is edited…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2010
Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action “Anti-Racism in Education: Missing In Action, a book I am glad to be part of, addresses needs across the…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2010
The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? A struggle dominates education these days. It is a struggle between demands for standardization and the reality of diversity.…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2009
Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Challenging how we think about environmental education In the lead-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2009
Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: Professional judgment, authentic learning and creative classrooms Attachments Table of Contents and Editorial The Student’s Freedom to Learn Requires…
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The Gifts Within
Carrying Each Other Forward in Aboriginal Education This timely volume explores Aboriginal education from the perspectives of those who work within it. The book covers…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2009
Beyond Child’s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada How we care for our children says everything about the communities we create and…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009
Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, sexuality and communities of colour This issue of OS/OS unravels the seemingly impenetrable and often unquestioned connections between youth, sex…
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Education for the World, Education for All
Quebec education in the context of globalization Today’s cheerleaders for globalization are actually advocating a form of ultraliberalism reminiscent of the unregulated capitalism of the…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2008
Breaking the Iron Cage: Resistance to the Schooling of Global Capitalism When we published the first of what we are beginning to call our “Iron…
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