In The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild shares his own sixty-year journey of learning--from residential school to PhD and beyond--looking all the while to find a place for Indigenous spirituality in the classroom. Encouraged by an...
Education
- Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
- Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
The Knowledge Seeker tells the story of the developing Indigenous-run education movement and calls forth the urgent need to teach about Indigenous spirituality.
- Author:Boyd, NatashaSummary:
In 1739, Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's plantations in South Carolina, and now her family is in danger of losing everything. With the high value of indigo dye, Eliza believes it's...
- Author:Kohl, HerbertSummary:
In more than forty books on subjects ranging from social justice to mathematics, morality to parenthood, Herb Kohl has earned a place as one of our foremost "educators who write." With Marian Wright Edelman, Mike Rose, Lisa...
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
- Author:Carpenter, David, Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
"This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from...
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The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to it, in all regions of the world: a masterful, engaged, and wholly relevant study that traces the...
- Author:Quinn, Robert E., Heynoski, Katherine, Thomas, Mike, Spreitzer, Gretchen M.Summary:
What does teaching look like at its very best? How are great teachers able to ignite a love of learning and change students’ lives? In this book you’ll learn from seven remarkable teachers who stretch beyond the conventional foundations...
- Author:McGuire, Charles, Abitz, DianaSummary:
The Best Advice Ever for Teachers offers a collection of the best thoughts, ideas, methods and aphorisms from the past and present for today's teacher. This book blends the observations of contemporary educators with words of wisdom...
- Author:CANFIELD, DorothySummary:
Unlike other young women of her generation, who were "bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers," Sylvia Marshall - the "twig" of this novel - was reared to think for...
- Author:Sibbald, Timothy, Handford, Victoria, Badenhorst, Cecile, Block, Lee Anne, Chambers, Joan, Cobb, Cam, Deer, Frank, Hamm, Lyle, Kornelsen, LloydSummary:
The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not yet attained the...
- Author:Adams, Marilee G.Summary:
In response to educators who are already fans of her bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams, the originator of Question Thinking, presents a compelling model for creating a classroom environment infused with...
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This resource is ideal for anyone working with young people in grades 9-12, whether in schools or in non-formal educational settings. Richly illustrated, it offers fifty teaching strategies that promote learning about natural systems...
- Author:Goulet, Linda May.Summary:
- Author:Goldberg, Marsha Serling, Feldman, Sonia, Jones, James Earl, Friedman, Thomas, Cronkite, Walter, Crawford, CindySummary:
Teachers With Class celebrates teachers and the art of good teaching. Almost everyone has had a special teacher at some point-one who saw potential where others did not, one who made ideas come alive, one who taught more than what was...
- Author:Esquith, RafeSummary:
Still teaching fifth graders in a small, leaky classroom in downtown Los Angeles, Esquith fosters a wholesome climate where character, humility, and diligence matter and support is unconditional. For his mostly poor and Hispanic...
- Author:McAloon, PatrickSummary:
"China is changing faster than any other nation on earth today. Written by a Chinese language teacher and a travel professional who works with students in China all the time, Studying in China is an invaluable resource"-...
- Author:Golden, DanielSummary:
Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where...
- Author:Blackstock, CindySummary:
Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him...
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