Books
The Power of Oral Culture in Education: Theorizing Proverbs, Idioms, and Folklore Tale
Edited by Ardavan Eizadirad and Dr. Njoki Wane
This volume explores the importance of inter-generational oral culture and stories that transcend time, space, and boundaries transmitted historically from one generation to the next through proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales in different geographical and spatial contexts.
From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home
By Bree Akesson and Andrew Basso
What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a fundamental human right, then why is the destruction of home not viewed as a rights violation and punished accordingly? From Bureaucracy to Bullets answers these questions and more by focusing on the violent practice of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a central and overlooked human rights issue.
Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts
By Ardavan Eizadirad, Steve Sider and Andrew Campbell
Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts.
Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Cases from Principles for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs
By Steve Sider and Kimbely Maich
This book supports the professional learning of school principals, and those who aspire to be such, in development of their skills and knowledge around fostering inclusive schools for students with special education needs.
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care
By Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Rachel Berman
This book aims to map, deconstruct, and engage with different models of equity as they pertain to the early childhood education landscape in Ontario. This vital text encourages rethinking how narratives of equity and inclusion are constructed and what this means for young children and their families in Ontario, as well as throughout Canada.
Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO
By Ardavan Eizadirad
Ardavan Eizadirad’s book examines the history of standardized testing in Ontario leading to the current context and its impact on racialized identities, particularly on Grade 3 students, parents, and educators. Using a theoretical argument supplemented with statistical trends, the author illuminates how EQAO tests are culturally and racially biased and promote a Eurocentric curriculum and way of life privileging white students and those from higher socioeconomic status.
Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches
Edited by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and John W. Schwieter
Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain.
Proficiency Predictors in Sequential Bilinguals
By Lynette Austin, Arturo E. Hernandez and John W. Schwieter
This book provides an overview of research considering variables deemed to impact bilingual language acquisition, and highlights research outcomes from a variety of disciplines. An exploratory study takes into account these variables and examines the language acquisition of adult Spanish-English bilinguals across a range of domains in their two languages. The results demonstrate that the highly interactive nature of bilingual speakers' languages is in line with a holistic view of the dynamic, interdependent nature of bilingualism as described by usage-based theories and dynamic systems theories, and by the conceptualization of bilingual language from a dynamic interactive processing perspective.
Sustainable Food System Assessment
Edited by Alison Bay-Palmer, Damien Conaré, Ken Meter, Amanda Di Battista and Carla Johnston
Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence.
By Raghad Ebied and Raghid Shreih, Illustrated by Eman Salem
In this story, Hadi and Sameer's mom explains the importance of having compassion for her children by underlining the universal value of having acceptance and love for others, regardless of our differences. The “Hadi’s Adventures” series aims to promote character education, represent the diversity of children, encourage children to develop critical thinking skills, and show examples of acceptance and harmony between members of society regardless of their faith or race.
Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, and Movement
Edited by David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic
This book aims to help students address questions about food, providing clarity and understanding about numerous themes, while also opening up possibilities for future exploration. It is also intended as a way to think about and transcend disciplinary boundaries, so that food itself might become a starting point for learning about and conducting research on food.