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Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
Weaving Connections Educating for Peace Social and Environmental Justice Author:Tara Goldstein, David Selby Education plays a vitally important role in building foundations for social progress. This remarkable collection describes educational models based on the principles of tolerance, equity and justice developed over the past three decades by teachers, parents, activists and students. In a time of crippling cutbacks and educational reforms designed... more » to promote ?business? over ?education,? this book is critical reading. Contributors from across Canada discuss the initiatives behind their approaches, how they developed curricula and the future of their educational work:Anti-Homophobia Initiatives, Tim McCaskell and Vanessa RussellMulticultural and Anti-Racist Education, Ouida M. WrightBlack Education, Maxine Bramble Education for Citizenship, Mark Evans and Ian HundeyDevelopment Education, Louella CronkhiteEducating for Gender Equity, Lyndsay Canadian Environmental Education, Constance Russell, Anne Bell and Leesa FawcettGlobal Education, Graham PikeExamining Assumptions in Health, Gale Smith and Linda PeteratWidening the Circle of Compassion and Justice, David SelbyLaw-Related Education, Wanda Cassidy Media Education, Barry Duncan, Rick Shepherd and John Pungente, SJMoulded Images: First Nations People and Representation, Susan FletcherEducation Towards a Culture of Peace, V. Floresca-Cawagas and Toh Swee-HinWeaving Connections is a call to action by progressive educators, inviting us to cherish educational models that teach us how to live in harmony, respect and balance with one another.« less