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Residential Schools and Reconciliation

By (author) J.R. Miller
Categories: Ethnic studies

In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. This timely and provocative work ...

Making a Global City

Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities and shows how education plays a vital role in shaping and integrating immigrants in liberal democracies.

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

By (author) Larry Prochner
Categories: Education

In the early nineteenth century, governments introduced kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in England ...

The New Buffalo

By (author) Blair Stonechild
Categories: Ethnic studies

Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain ...

St. John's College

By (author) J. M. Bumsted
Categories: History of the Americas

With roots going back to the Red River Settlement in the 1850s, Winnipeg’s St. John’s College is the oldest Anglophone educational institution in Western Canada. First founded as a school for the ...

Creating Citizens

How does one learn to be a good citizen? A good Canadian? Creating Citizens looks at the role schools have played in creating and sustaining a sense of Canadian identity for generations of Alberta students. ...

Voyage to Discovery

By (author) Rex Brown
Categories: History of education

Designed for Grade 8 students, Voyage to Discovery explores the development and growth of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1800 to present, analyzing and exposing those key elements and individuals that ...

Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada

By (author) Larry Prochner
Edited by Nina Howe
Categories: History of education

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: What programs are currently available ...