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Weaving Connections
Educating for Peace, Social & Environmental Justice
edited by Tara Goldstein and David Selby

"Weaving Connections may provide teachers with the hope and vision for a holistic approach to educating for peace, social and environmental justice."
Green Teacher

Education plays a vitally important role in building foundations for social progress. This remarkable collection describes educational models based on the principles of tolerance, equity and justice developed over the past three decades by teachers, parents, activists and students. In a time of crippling cutbacks and educational reforms designed to promote "business" over "education," this book is critical reading. Contributors from across Canada discuss the initiatives behind their approaches, how they developed curricula and the future of their educational work:

 · Anti-Homophobia Initiatives
   - Tim McCaskell and Vanessa Russell
 · Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education
   - Ouida M. Wright
 · Black Education
   - Maxine Bramble
 · Educating for Citizenship
   - Mark Evans and Ian Hundey
 · Development Education
   - Louella Cronkhite
 · Education for Gender Equity
   - Lyndsay Mofat
 · Cdn. Environmental Education
   - Constance Russell, Anne Bell and Leesa Fawcett
 · Global Education
   - Graham Pike
 · Examining Assumptions in Health Education
   - Gale Smith and Linda Peterat
 · Widening the Circle of Compassion and Justice
   - David Selby
 · Law-Related Education
   - Wanda Cassidy
 · Media Education
   - Barry Duncan, Rick Shepherd and John Pungente, SJ
 · Molded Images: First Nations People and Representation
   - Susan Fletcher
 · Educating Towards a Culture of Peace
   - V. Floresca-Cawagas and Toh Swee-Hin

Weaving Connections is a call to action by progressive educators, inviting us to cherish educational models that teach us how to live in harmony, respect and balance with one another.

About the Editors   Tara Goldstein is an Associate Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). She has written on anti-discriminatory education, the education of immigrant and ESL students and critical ethnography. David Selby is an internationally renowned writer on global, environmental, humane and human rights education. He was previously the Director of the International Institute for Global Education, University of York, England.

Weaving Connections

Weaving Connections

Categories
  · Education
  · Environment
  · Social Issues
  · Women's Studies

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400 pages
$24.95 Cdn
$24.95 US
6" x 9" paper
ISBN-10: 1-894549-01-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-894549-01-1

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