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Reading the Room

Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom

Concordia University Press
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Making the Case

2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools

UBC Press, Purich Books

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ students in Canadian schools.

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Transforming the Canadian History Classroom

Imagining a New "We"

UBC Press

Transforming the Canadian History Classroom is a call for a radically innovative practice that places students – the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of – at the centre of history education.

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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Indigenous Education in Canada

UBC Press, Purich Books

Knowing the Past, Facing the Future offers a sweeping account of Indigenous education in Canada, from the first treaty promises and the failure of government-run schools to illuminating discussions of what needs to change now to work toward reconciliation.

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Sharing Breath

Embodied Learning and Decolonization

Athabasca University Press
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Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning

Foundations and Applications

Athabasca University Press
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Learning in Virtual Worlds

Research and Applications

Athabasca University Press

In this authoritative collection, a team of international experts outline the emerging trends and developments in the use of 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning.

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Educating Children and Young People in Care

Learning Placements and Caring Schools

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Bringing together research and practice on the theme of the educational well-being of children in care, this book aims to help professionals to improve these children's potential for educational attainment.

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Believing You Can is the First Step to Achieving

A CBT and Attribution Retraining Programme to Improve Self-Belief in Students aged 8-12

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This easy-to-implement programme helps educational professionals to engage and motivate students aged 8-12 who are underachieving or have low self-belief. Based on techniques from CBT and AR, the workbook, games and activities in this programme teach students how negative and positive thinking can affect learning.

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Teaching Each Other

Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies

UBC Press

Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) educational concepts, this book provides a new theoretical and practical model for teaching Indigenous students.

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Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement

Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability

UBC Press

A timely assessment of a successful initiative to support Aboriginal cultural ways and worldviews in one Ontario high school.

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Teaching Crowds

Learning and Social Media

Athabasca University Press
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Online Distance Education

Towards a Research Agenda

Athabasca University Press

Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.

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Teaching Health Professionals Online

Frameworks and Strategies

Athabasca University Press
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Teaching in Blended Learning Environments

Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry

Athabasca University Press

Provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning, the integration of complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies.

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Valences of Interdisciplinarity

Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

Edited by Raphael Foshay
Athabasca University Press

A collection of essays on interdisciplinary theory, research, and teaching.

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Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice

Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education

Athabasca University Press

Extending the reach of higher education through flexibility.

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Child and Youth Care

Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy

UBC Press

This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.

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New Possibilities for the Past

Shaping History Education in Canada

Edited by Penney Clark
UBC Press

Canadian historians and educators discuss current debates about history education and historical knowledge to develop an innovative agenda for research and practice in the new millennium.

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A Beginner's Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders

Essential Information for Parents and Professionals

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This concise and straight-talking guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder will ensure parents, carers, teachers and other professionals feel confident, informed and able to cope with the road ahead.

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Emerging Technologies in Distance Education

Athabasca University Press

A one-stop knowledge resource, this book showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance.

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Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic

UBC Press

The first history of educational policy, practice, and decision making in the Eastern Arctic, now Nunavut.

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Accessible Elements

Teaching Online and at a Distance

Athabasca University Press

This collection informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, as well as the relevant educational theory.

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A Designer's Log

Case Studies in Instructional Design

Athabasca University Press

A unique contribution to the field of online learning, this designer’s log documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction.

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A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

UBC Press

This book explores the history of kindergartens and infant schools in three settler colonies, revealing how discourses and developments in the past have shaped early childhood education in the present.

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Mobile Learning

Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Edited by Mohamed Ally
Athabasca University Press

Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research.

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The Exchange University

Corporatization of Academic Culture

UBC Press

This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.

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Reshaping the University

Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift

UBC Press
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Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States

UBC Press

This volume compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge in educational systems.

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Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

UBC Press

This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.

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Training the Excluded for Work

Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income

UBC Press

In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.

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No Place to Learn

Why Universities Aren't Working

UBC Press

Arguing that too much emphasis is placed on specialized research and too little on teaching, this book contends that students seeking higher education in Canada are being short-changed.

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Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada

Past, Present, and Future

UBC Press

Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field.

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Education, Student Rights and the Charter

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other human rights legislation apply to education.

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