Education / Elementary

This book brings notions of play and place as cultural constructions into conversations about language and literacy.

In Schooling the Next Generation, Dan Zuberi documents the challenges facing ten East Vancouver elementary schools in diverse lower-income communities, as well as the ways their principals, teachers, and parents are overcoming these challenges.

This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning.

Supporting Refugee Children offers practical advice for teachers, social workers, and counsellors, as well as suggestions for policy makers.

Alexander Lockhart offers a survey of elementary and secondary schoolteachers and presents a profile of the profession as a whole. 

The comprehensive study of the post-Ryerson period in Ontario education will be of importance and interest to historians, educators, and educational administrators.

Miss Churchill is fully conversant with the works of Piaget, Cuisenaire, Cassirer and other leading thinkers in educational philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. She has synthesized their concepts with her own experience and research at Leeds University.

This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto.

This volume contains a variety of basic chemistry experiments including a general introduction which details safety procedures, rules on the use of the balance, rules on the use of pipettes and burettes, and nomenclature.

The purpose of this book is to investigate the textbook regulations and changing policies which have affected the authorization of textbooks for elementary schools from 1846 to 1950, and discusses the characteristics of several series of texts that have been used in the schools of the province.

The experiments in this book comprise a series of practical exercises which the authors have found from experience illustrate well the principles of organic chemistry. It is designed to accompany the first course in organic chemistry.