Education Project
Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it
With a wide circle of research associates representing all aspects of the education sector, accessible research, case studies and thoughtful commentary and analysis, the Education Project provides a welcome—and often humorous—balance to the rhetoric of market-based education reform that continues to erode our public education system at all levels.
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2010
Teach outside the box The fall 2011 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, edited by Larry Kuehn, explores the ways in which neo-liberal forces and the power of capital continue to…
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 provincial governments aren’t doing enough…
Climate Change – Who’s Carrying the Burden?
The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma The devastating impacts of climate change are clear. But there are disturbing revelations about how global elites are tackling the issue. Al…
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 by David Clandfield and George…
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 educational spectrum, from primary school…
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. This issue of Our Schools…
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 December 2009, Stephen Lewis laments…
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 the Educator’s Freedom to Teach…
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 a range of topics relevant…
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 the kind of society in…
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 education, the impacts of colonization…
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 nineteenth century. Their vision of…
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