Recent Publications

Critical Perspectives in Food Studies

Edited by Mustafa Koc, Jennifer Sumner, and Anthony Winson. Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, this collection introduces students to the shifting interpretations, perspectives, challenges, governance issues, and future visions that shape the study of food and food issues in Canada and around the world.

Universities and Regional Development: A Critial Assessment of Tensions and Contradictions

Edited by: Rómulo Pinheiro, Paul Benneworth, and Glen A. Jones. In a systematic and comparative manner, this book shows internal and external audiences why, how, and when the institutionalization of universities’ "third missions" should take place.

Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics and Pedagogy 

This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in Toronto and Winnipeg from the 1960s onward. Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin identify important contrasts between the experiences in each city as a result of their different demographics, institutional structures, cultures, and politics.

Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy

In Phone Clones, Kiran Mirchandani explores the experiences of the men and women who work in Indian call centers through one hundred interviews with workers in Bangalore, Delhi, and Pune.

How to bring about lasting, system-wide improvement in schooling performance?

The International Academy of Education (IAE) and UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) are launching a new publication. System-wide Improvement in Education by Ben Levin is the 13th booklet in the Education Policy Series, published jointly by the two institutions.

Brave New World

OISE cultural diversity expert John Portelli published Brave New Teachers, a book about democratic teacher practices in a culturally diverse school system.

Breaking Barriers

OISE professor Ben Levin co-authored Breaking Barriers: Excellence and Equity for All, a new book  that examines current  research an d practice focused on equity and inclusive education.

Canadian University Report

OISE higher education professor Tony Chambers provides a different perspective on co-curricular campus activities in It's extracurricular wonderland in Canadian universities, in Canadian University Report 2012, published by The Globe and Mail.