Education, Student Rights and the Charter
How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other human rights legislation apply to education.
Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada
Past, Present, and Future
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.
No Place to Learn
Why Universities Aren't Working
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.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
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.
Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
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.
Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States
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.
Reshaping the University
Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition
The Exchange University
Corporatization of Academic Culture
This book critically examines the commercialization of today’s universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.
Mobile Learning
Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
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.
A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
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.
A Designer's Log
Case Studies in Instructional Design
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.
Accessible Elements
Teaching Online and at a Distance
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.
Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic
The first history of educational policy, practice, and decision making in the Eastern Arctic, now Nunavut.
Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
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.
A Beginner's Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders
Essential Information for Parents and Professionals
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.
New Possibilities for the Past
Shaping History Education in Canada
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.
Child and Youth Care
Critical Perspectives on Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy
This book reconceptualizes child and youth care by bringing critical and postmodern perspectives to bear on practices, programs, and policies.
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice
Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
Extending the reach of higher education through flexibility.
Valences of Interdisciplinarity
Theory, Practice, Pedagogy
A collection of essays on interdisciplinary theory, research, and teaching.
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments
Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry
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.
Online Distance Education
Towards a Research Agenda
Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.
Teaching Crowds
Learning and Social Media
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement
Educational Practices and Cultural Sustainability
A timely assessment of a successful initiative to support Aboriginal cultural ways and worldviews in one Ontario high school.
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) educational concepts, this book provides a new theoretical and practical model for teaching Indigenous students.
Believing You Can is the First Step to Achieving
A CBT and Attribution Retraining Programme to Improve Self-Belief in Students aged 8-12
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.
Educating Children and Young People in Care
Learning Placements and Caring Schools
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.
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
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.