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Upholding our moral compass
Equity is teaching and learning that is centered on justice, liberation, truth, and freedom, and is free of bias and favouritism. You cannot talk about true…
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Colonialism, racism and the IHRA
In June 2024, after years of advocacy from Palestinian and Jewish families, the Toronto District School Board voted to include anti-Palestinian racism as part of its Combating Hate and…
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From South Africa to Palestine
In March 2023 at the annual Palestine lecture at the University of London’s School of Oriental African Studies, I said that while Israel has always been…
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Editorial
As editors, we came to this project with both acknowledgementof the risk, and with an an unshakeable sense of resolve.
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2024
If we, as educators and as social justice advocates who have dedicated our lives to anti-racism and equity work, find that the limits of our…
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Anti-Palestinian racism in Canadian schools and what we can do about it
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2024
In the never-ending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
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Costly Gambles
Perhaps you’ve heard the one about Harvard University? That now it’s basically a hedge fund, but with a school attached?
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Connect the dots: School boards, democracy, and human rights
On a gray day last September, I attended a counter-protest at the Grand Parade in Halifax. I was there as part of “Education Saves Lives”…
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From battleground to common ground
In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
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Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations,…
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School grounds turned battlegrounds: War, conflict and peace education
Months after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas fighters on Israelis, and the ensuing and ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces that…
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