Education / Organizations & Institutions

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education "markets" and encourage greater private sector involvement in Canada’s public education systems undermine the democratic possibilities of the country’s public schools.

This book identifies various inequities in Canadian education systems – including race, gender, sexuality, religion, Indigenous, and linguistic issues, – and suggests ways to overcome systemic barriers.

This path-breaking collaboration by leading Black scholars examines the complexities of Black life in Canadian post-secondary education.

Degrees of Dignity examines how global discourses and policy models are affecting and altering contemporary higher education systems in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

Re-defining the university as the site of colonial and racial injustice, this collection examines the numerous ways in which racialized and Indigenous women and queer scholars contest the institution's power and authority.

A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a challenge to the higher education community to conduct research on graduate education as it would any other area of educational research.

Analysing rankings in diverse higher education settings, this book draws on discourse analysis, theory, ethnography, and case studies, to consider the question of how knowledge is produced and shared.

A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.

In recent years, schools across North America, serving vastly distinct communities, have been subject to strikingly similar waves of neoliberal policies by governments that are reshaping the nature of teachers’ work.

Bringing a new dimension to the literature on educationalization, this book is grounded in historical research, curricular analysis, and philosophical reflection.

Distracted by differing demands from without and within, the twenty-first-century university needs to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered deliberation about knowledge and the education of its students as whole human beings.

Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive York University presidents encountered from the very early 1970s up to 2014.

Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parents or guardians, as well as of the difficulties of the frontline workers who take responsibility for assisting them.

Written and organized for easy access, the reader is guided step-by-step through library rules and methods of operation, the effective use of various cataloguing systems, and the location of materials.

The twelfth survey is based on interviews conducted in late 1998 with a random sample of 1000 Ontario adults, and questionnaires completed by over 100 randomly selected corporate executives. Trends in attitude changes are presented for the general public and executives. 

In 1987 Joanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin Island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the story of the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.