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  • Decolonizing Discipline

    Children, Corporal Punishment, Christian Theologies, and Reconciliation

    Edited by Valerie E. Michaelson, Joan E. Durrant ...
    Series Book 3 - Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
    In June 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released 94 Calls to Action that urged reform of policies and programs to repair the harms caused by the Indian Residential Schools. Decolonizing Discipline is a response to Call to Action 6––the call to repeal Section 43 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which justifies the corporal punishment of children.Editors Valerie Michaelson and Joan ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment

    Realizing Children’s Rights

    Edited by Joan E. Durrant, Anne B. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Until thirty years ago, this near-universal practice was considered appropriate, necessary and a parental right. But a paradigm shift in conceptions of childhood has led to a global movement to redefine it as violence and as a violation of children’s rights. Today, many countries ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

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  • Rituals and Student Identity in Education

    Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy

    by R. Quantz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
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  • Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies

    Provoking Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives

    by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Jennifer Rottmann ...
    Series series Education (R0)
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    A Social Justice Model

    by M. Pratt-Clarke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
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  • Literacy in the Early Years

    Reflections on International Research and Practice

    Edited by Claire J. McLachlan, Alison W. Arrow ...
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    Experiences and Perspectives

    Edited by Stefanie Schwarz, Ulrich Teichler ...
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    Joseph Kamiru Gikubu's Impact

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    Views of Others in Textbooks of the Middle East

    Edited by Elie Podeh, Samira Alayan ...
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