Education

A fun and interactive way to record your child's school years.

When completed, School Year Chronicles becomes a child's own personalized yearbook. The roomy notebook format provides the perfect spot to collect all those mementos, keepsakes and memories from nursery school to fifth grade. The creative pages guide and motivate the child and parent(s) …

Schooling in the Age of Austerity details how neoliberal privatization, austerity, and militarized policing are subverting the educative and human development capacity of urban public schools. Through a richly textured case study in a public high school in the city of Chicago, Means foregrounds the voices of educators and youth to create a vivid th …

Schooling in Transition offers students a broad survey of key themes in the history of education, bringing together ground-breaking research on developments from across Canada with the best work published in the field. Looking back over two centuries of education history in Canada, this textbook highlights the degree to which key issues — such as …

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES
1. Social justice in education
2. Poverty and compensatory education
3. Knowledge and society
4. Curricular justice

PART TWO: PRACTICALITIES
5. Work for teachers
6. Assessment
7. Learning from experience: The Disadvantaged Schools program
8. Work for researchers

Appendix: Examples of practice in disadvantaged schools

Notes

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