Critical Schooling Transformative Theory and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Villegas, Francisco J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brady, Janelle (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Schools.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Sociology of Education.; Schools and Schooling.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Ethnicity in Education.

This edited volume brings to the foreground the inequities of contemporary schooling in Canada. The editors and authors perform a critical examination of the Canadian schooling space, highlighting the agency and action of marginalized communities and their efforts to address injustice within context...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword, George Dei
• Chapter 1. Continuing Important Conversations: An Introduction to this Volume, Francisco J. Villegas and Janelle Brady
• Chapter 2. "I'm Just a Friend Now": Community Policing in Toronto Schools, Gita Rao Madan
• Chapter 3. Restorative Justice: Moving From Punitive Sanctions to Proactive Interactions, Michelle H.A. Bailey
• Chapter 4. Canada's Legacy of Colonialism: Implications in Education, Jaqueline Benn-John
• Chapter 5. Resistance is Our Ancestral Knowledge: Incorporating Roots of Resistance into the Education of Adolescent Afro-Caribbean Girls in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Kimberley Moore and Celine D. Gibbons-Taylor
• Chapter 6. Disrupting Princesses: A Pedagogical Moment in Dismantling Colonial Norms and Representations of Beauty Through An Anti-Colonial Framework, Janelle Brady, and Zuhra Abawi
• Chapter 7. The First Three Years of Laen: From Unity-Seeking to Equity-Seeking, Catalina Calero, and Derik Chica
• Chapter 8. Active Communities and Practices of Resistance: Brief History of the Use of Schools as Border Zones in Toronto, Francisco J. Villegas
• Chapter 9. Be a Good Citizen or Else! Neoliberal Citizenship and the Grade Six 2013 Revised Ontario Social Studies Curriculum, Ardavan Eizadirad
• Chapter 10. "What Else Can I Do?": A Guide for Academics Who (Want To) Support Palestine, Sabrine Azraq
• Chapter 11. Bridging Borders: Teaching a Bridging Course with Precarious Status Students Transitioning to the University, Paloma E. Villegas
• Chapter 12. Self-Study of an Indigenous Settler in Ontario Schooling: An Exploration of Living Theory, Umar Umangay
• Chapter 13. Living Biocultures: A Framework for Building Sustainable Community Wellbeing, Resilience, and Innovation, Yessica D. Rostan
• Postscript, Carl E. James.