Education
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Campus Confidential100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition) |
In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, … | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 256 | 2013 | View |
![]() Counting Out The ScholarsThe Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education |
Canada’s universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these … | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 274 | 2002 | View |
![]() Degrees of FailureUniversity Education in Decline |
In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show … | Randle W. Nelsen | 152 | 2017 | View |
![]() Freedom To LearnCreating a Classroom Where Every Child Thrives |
Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don’t work. Teachers are … | Art Willans; Cari Williams | 220 | 2018 | View |
![]() In Defiance |
On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will … | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 186 | 2015 | View |
![]() Political CorrectnessThe Munk Debates |
The twenty-second Munk Debate pits acclaimed journalist, professor, and ordained minister Michael Eric Dyson and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg against renowned actor and writer … | Jordan Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg; Rudyard Griffiths; Stephen Fry | 147 | 2018 | View |
![]() The Attack on Nova Scotia’s SchoolsThe story behind 25 years of tumultuous change |
Nova Scotia’s public schools and their students have faced dramatic conflict and drastic change over the past 25 years. While critics charge that schools are failing kids, teachers have … | Grant Frost | 180 | 2020 | View |
![]() Weapons of Mass InstructionA Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling |
John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and … | John Taylor Gatto | 241 | 2010 | View |
From ![]() Foreward, Prefaces and IntroductionFrom: Freedom To Learn |
Not many teachers come to us with a well-formed idea of how students should respond to being in school. The ultimate goal of education is not only developmental and academic accomplishments, but … | Art Willans; Cari Williams | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() Foreword |
Defines Performance Indicators as they relate to universities and describes the effect these have had on the nature of universities, concludes that the effect is negative. Outlines arguments that … | Donald C. Savage; William Bruneau | 6 | 2002 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() Foreword |
- | Grant Frost | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Campus Confidential |
Explains the reasoning behind writing this book and why this discussion is important to Canadian Society today and how the Universities effect the life’s of Canadians | Bill Morrison; Ken S. Coates | 8 | 2013 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Learning to Leave |
- | Michael Corbett | 34 | 2007 | $3.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: In Defiance |
Introduction and background to the events that resulted in the Quebec student strike of 2011 and 2012, including a discussion of the provincial government’s attempts to raise tuition fees. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Michael Eric Dyson In Conversation With Rudyard GriffithsFrom: Political Correctness |
This reading consists of an interview between journalist Rudyard Griffiths and Michael Eric Dyson prior to the Munk Debate on the Political Correctness. The topic of the debate is the role and … | Michael Eric Dyson; Rudyard Griffiths | 9 | 2018 | $1.08 Add |
From ![]() PrologueAgainst School |
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom. | John Taylor Gatto | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |