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January Postings

The Arts Go to School, by David Booth & Masayuki Hachiya. This comprehensive book for grades K-12 offers a unique glimpse into the real classrooms where the arts support all forms of learning, and features chapters by Larry Swartz and Jennifer Rowsell.

 

Published by Scholastic Press

Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics by Roger Simon is a collection of thought provoking essays that consider remembrance as a practice that helps to broaden and deepen our understanding of contemporary life.

 

Published by Palgrave-Macmillan Press

December Postings

 

Analysing Exemplary Science Teaching edited by Steve Alsop (York University), Larry Bencze, and Erminia Pedretti brings together twelve academics, ten innovative teachers and three exceptional students in a conversation about teaching and learning. Teachers and students describe some of their most noteworthy classroom practice, while scholars of international standing use educational theory to discuss, define and analyze the documented classroom practice.

 

Published by McGraw Hill

Educational Outcomes for the Canadian Workplace: New Frameworks for Policy and Research by Jane Gaskell and Kjell Rubenson explores how educational programs are changing, which skills matter in the economy, and how policy has responded to the educational and economic pressures of the 1990s.

 

 

 

Published by University of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing

The Dominators, by George Tracz (former faculty member OISE) and Frank Orr (sportswriter with the Toronto Star) is that in the world of professional sports there are athletes who so thoroughly dominate their chosen sport that they transform it completely. Thirty-four athletes are featured.

 

Published by Warwick

 

September Postings

Breaking away from their traditional mission of only conferring associate degrees and occupational credentials, an increasing number of community colleges have begun seriously to explore and, indeed, in some U.S. states and Canadian provinces, to actually implement conferring bachelor's degrees. A new book edited by Deborah L. Floyd, Michael L. Skolnik, and Kenneth P. Walker, The Community College Baccalaureate: Emerging Trends and Policy Issues, analyzes this emerging trend, presenting the background, examples of practice, and different models of delivery.

Published by Stylus

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As agencies have pushed for greater performance and public accountability over the past two decades, we have seen some incremental improvements. But all too often experience reveals that these improvements are temporary. Leadership & Sustainability, by Michael Fullan provides a comprehensive examination of what leaders at all levels of the educational system can do to pave the way for large-scale, sustainable reform. Linking abstract concepts to concrete examples, this groundbreaking work defines an agenda for the system thinker in action.

Published by the Ontario Principals Council and Corwin Publishers

Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual's life span. In clear and accessible language, Keith Oatley examines key topics such as emotional intelligence, emotion and the brain, and emotional disorders. Throughout, he interweaves three themes: the changes that emotions have undergone from the past to the present, the extent to which we are able to control our emotions, and the ways in which emotions help us discern the deeper layers of ourselves and our relationships.

Published by Blackwell

Citizenship is traditionally connected with emancipatory struggles, but as the authors in this two-volume work remind us, it has also been forcefully imposed on cultures and peoples around the globe. Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and Social Change , edited by Karsten Mundel and Daniel Schugurensky, examines citizenship along four dimensions-status, identity, civic virtues, and agency, and in relation to issues of inclusion/exclusion, colonization, migration, civic engagement, and political efficacy.

Published by the Transformative Learning Centre

A new book by Dona Mathews and Joanne Foster, Being Smart About Gifted Children: A Resource Book for Parents and Educators, provides an evidence-based perspective on living and working with exceptionally able learners, emerging out of the work that Dona undertook at OISE/UT with Dan Keating, as well as Joanne's and Dona's work in schools and with families.

 

Published by Great Potential Press

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June Postings

Are we slaves to our genes, mere vessels for their survival? Are concepts of rationality, intelligence, and agency still relevant? What happens when the robots discover their role? In The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin Keith E. Stanovich assesses the human condition in a thoroughly Darwinian age

Published by University of Chicago Press

Reviewed by Nature

May Postings

John Eisenberg has just published a book The Triumph of the Imagination: Creativity in Sport, which interprets the great moments in boxing, baseball (this chapter is written by UTS principal Malcolm Levin), high jump, football, running the mile, basketball, and so on as highly creative accomplishments. Eisenberg asks in the introduction, “Is it not absurd to see sports and athletics in the same light as physics, or to see athletes in the same light as physicists? How can super-jocks be compared to super scientists? Are rocket scientists and brain surgeons not infinitely more intelligent…? Are they not in an altogether different class…” The short answer, based on Eisenberg’s book, is no…

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Published by Chestnut Publishing Group, 4005 Bayview Ave. To.

George Dei launched his new book Rethinking Schooling and Education in Africa: The Case of Ghana with a special visit from Molefi Asante, on April 26.

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World Africa Press

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April Postings

Megan Boler has edited a book Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence that debates the question of how to balance the demands of "democratic dialogue" with the reality of a world in which each voice does not carry equal weight. Should rules be in place, for example, that correct for such imbalances by privileging some voices or muting others? Should separate spaces be created for traditionally disadvantaged groups to speak only among themselves? Is democratic dialogue in an inclusive sense even a possibility in a world divided by multiple dimensions of power and privilege?

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Peter Lang Publishers

Professor Emeritus Alan Brown now discovers that, though retired ten years, he is still publishing. Two of his original research papers, "Professional Literacy, Resourcefulness and What Makes Teaching Interesting" and "How to Change What Teachers Think about Teachers: Affirmative Action in Promotion Decisions"— now appear as Chapters 2 and 25 in the just published book Teacher Thinking Twenty Years On
(Michael Kompf and Pam Denicolo, Eds., Swets & Zeitlinger; Lisse, Holland, 2003).

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Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers

Deborah Patterson and Carol Roheiser's article "Creating a Culture of Change:Ten Strategies for Developing an Ethic of Teamwork" is a spring Web Exclusive of the Journal of Staff Development (Vol. 25, No. 2) published by the National Staff Development Council, 2004.

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Journal of Staff Development

David Livingstone and Peter Sawchuk, Centre for Education and Work at OISE/UT, have just had published Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age (Garamound, 2003). According to Michael Apple, their book goes to the very heart of the claims of a knowledge-based economy and demonstrates the realities and depth of workers' knowledge in powerful ways ... a major contribution to our understanding of the real connections between knowledge and power in our societies."

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http://www.garamond.ca/LivSawchuk.html

New Journal Issues

Orbit, "Girls, Boys, and Schooling," Vol. 34, No. 1, 2004. Guest editors: Paula Bourne and Cecilia Reynolds. We need to study more than test scores to find answers to the widening, multi-layered gender gap in education.

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Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la Recherche Féministe, "New Feminist Research," Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003.

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, "Women and Sustainability: From Rio de Janeiro (1992) to Johannesburg (2002)," Vol. 23, No. 1, 2003.

March Postings

Carol Rolheiser and Stephen Anderson have written the lead chapter for a new book on teaching cooperative learning in teacher education programs

Teaching Co-operative Learning: The Challenge for Teacher Education (Elizabeth G. Cohen, Celeste M. Brody, & Mara Sapon-Shevin (Eds.) (SUNY Press, 2004)

Teacher educators from ten institutions and programs in the United States, Canada, and Germany describe the ways in which they have changed teacher preparation to more fully incorporate cooperative learning concepts. Rolheiser and Anderson provide an acccount of how co-op learning has impacted the teacher education program at OISE/UT.

http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60874

Two new journals from OISE/UT …

Canadian Online Journal of Queer Studies
http://jqstudies.oise.utoronto.ca

Call for papers for Issue # 1 – Inventing the Queer Classroom
Submission deadline: April 30, 2004

From primary to graduate education, we want to hear about the experiences of students, professors, teachers, and staff challenging homophobic and heterosexist theory and practice. In particular, we invite submissions examining queer discourse in various disciplines, methods of teaching queer topics in different educational contexts, and ideas for shifting from a discourse of tolerance to one of transformative change. We challenge you to consider how queer oppression intersects with other forms of oppression (i.e., sexism, racism, classism, ableism, anti-Semitism, etc.) and how we can form alliances with others who are committed to eliminating oppression from education. Together, we can strategize to create queer-positive classroom environments and anti-oppressive discourse in every discipline at all levels of education.

Roy Gillis & Shaindl Diamond (Founding Editors)

jqstudies@oise.utoronto.ca

All submissions to the Canadian Online Journal of Queer Studies in Education will undergo a blind review by at least two members of the editorial board.

Higher Education Perspectives
http://hep.oise.utoronto.ca

We are delighted to announce the launch of Higher Education Perspectives, an online journal publishing peer-reviewed articles related to post-secondary education in Canada. Our journal is intended to provide a forum for faculty and graduate students pursuing research related to the college and university sector, particularly related to Canada. More specifically, however, HEP will serve as an arena in which students studying higher education may publish their work, become acquainted with the peer review process, and forge connections with others sharing the same research interests.

We are looking for contributors and reviewers among students and faculty. Please visit our website at for more information.
Higher Education Group, OISE/UT