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  • Nature and Early Education

    Global Perspectives on Outdoor Learning for Young Children

    Edited by Larry Prochner, Kristen Nawrotzki ...
    This collection offers a wide-ranging and thoughtful examination of how nature education for young children is evolving in the 21st century. In chapters based on empirical research and examples of reflective practice, the book reveals how nature-based approaches are transforming educational policy, theoretical frameworks, and educational practice in early childhood and beyond.Drawing on research ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Reimagining Teaching in Early 20th Century Experimental Schools

    by Alessandra Arce Hai, Helen May, Kristen Nawrotzki, Larry Prochner, Yordanka Valkanova ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces. The authors examine the social, political, and historical preconditions for the transfer of “new education” theory and practices in each period, place, and school, along with the networks of ideas and experts that supported this. The authors ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Recent Perspectives on Early Childhood Education in Canada

    by Nina Howe, Larry Prochner ...
    Early childhood education is critical for preparing children for success in formal school settings, and as such, is a major concern throughout the world. This volume brings together ground-breaking research in this area to help practitioners, students, policy makers, curriculum designers, and intervention program developers understand the latest ideas and advances in the field.Recent Perspectives ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods

    Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies

    by Helen May, Baljit Kaur, Larry Prochner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education

    Transnational Investigations

    Edited by Professor Helen May, Dr Kristen Nawrotzki, Professor Larry Prochner ...
    Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries.Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political pragmatism and pedagogical innovation that collectively provide insight into the transformation of Froebel ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Learning to Teach Young Children

    Theoretical Perspectives and Implications for Practice

    by Anna Kirova, Professor Larry Prochner, Christine Massing ...
    Learning to Teach Young Children provides you with the tools to critically engage with the key concepts and beliefs in early childhood education theory and practice. The book is organized around ten propositions that are explored in relation to 30 key questions, for example:- What does it mean to honour children's right to be different?- What does it mean to learn?- How can images of childhood be ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Re-situating Canadian Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Larry Prochner ...
    Series Book 47 - Rethinking Childhood
    This book presents research exploring the potential for postfoundational theories to revitalize discussions in early childhood education. In the past two decades, postfoundation theories (e.g., postmodern, poststructural, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) have revolutionized the field of early childhood education, but at the same time, little has been written about the value and potential of this ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Learning in Adulthood

    A Comprehensive Guide

    by Sharan B. Merriam, Lisa M. Baumgartner ...
    The new edition of the authoritative book in the field of adult education — fully revised to reflect the latest research and practice implications.For nearly three decades, Learning in Adulthood has been the definitive guide in the field of adult education. Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive volume is fully revised to reflect the latest developments in theory, research, and practice. ... Read more

    $66.00 USD

  • About Canada: Disability Rights

    by Deborah Stienstra ...
    Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Colour-Coded

    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    by Constance Backhouse ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Absent Citizens

    Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

    by Michael J. Prince ...
    Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD