Tag: Education

We must embrace instead of dismiss uncomfortable knowledge that calls into question the framework of virtuous educators and troubled Indigenous students.

Charting the student movement at the University of Saskatchewan.

What do open plan schools, standardized testing, and public-private partnerships have in common?

Hebrew University is a shocking choice for a collaboration in public safety management, say Palestinian students.

Last year, Ryerson University, where I teach, won a Passion Capitalist Award. When I first saw this posted on the university website, I thought the Ryerson public relations machine might be dabbling in satire. Sadly, this was real.

The nutrition experiments conducted by the Canadian government on malnourished Native children are part of a long history of experiments in nation-breaking that continue to target children. Being open and honest about what was done to these children and their families is a first step in truth telling about our shared past.

I am often conflicted as an educator. As a Native woman, I consider the current system of education in Canada to be inherently colonial, and I hate my role in perpetuating it.

Through the intersections of social centres, strategies for change emerge.

Across the Americas, Indigenous women are working to restore values of harmony, co-operation, balance, and respect within their communities.

At a time when post-secondary education is a minimal requirement for obtaining an average income, much the same as a high school diploma was for the parents of striking students, demands for free tuition hardly betray inordinate entitlement or fanciful utopianism.

Canada’s education system, imposed upon Indigenous people for hundreds of years, plays a powerful role in constructing the notion of public enemies in need of discipline and containment.

With constitutional challenges to the Special Law pending in Quebec courts, the fate of the student movement very much depends on whether the law will be massively defied beginning August 13, when three of 14 CÉGEPs are scheduled to reopen for the completion of the suspended winter semester.

Some PIRG supporters fear that adopting controversial positions will provoke attack. Especially after a defunding effort, PIRGs tend to endure a chilling effect during which volunteers and staff can be seduced by “neutrality” and engage in self-censorship.

The neoliberalization of the university has produced its own antagonists, and it is from the ranks of those who stand to lose the most from this transformation – students and academic workers – that the greatest conflicts have emanated.

Indian Horse illuminates Canada’s devastating past in an important contribution to the genre of sport fiction.

The tenacity and vibrancy of the Quebec student uprising is delivering a wake-up call to the left across the country.

Fernwood has given hundreds of visionaries a voice they’d otherwise lack, taking financial risks many publishers avoid.

Our northern communities are rich because they know their languages. They are rich because they have strong connections to their land. They are rich because at least some of their lands exist in a natural state.

What You Really Really Want is a powerful tool for radically transforming how we understand and navigate the complexities of our own sexuality.