New books
A Hard Place to Call Home: A Canadian Perspective on Residential Care and Treatment for Children and Youth (external link, opens in new window)
By: Kiaras Gharabaghi
Kiaras Gharabaghi is Director and Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care and Interim John C. Eaton Chair in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Community Services
From the publisher: In this seminal resource, Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi identifies an underlying absence of unifying theory and practice in Canada's child and youth residential care and treatment services. By drawing on organizational examples from across Canada, Gharabaghi exposes how the historical dynamics of mediocrity and complacency have led to inadequate standards and practices within the system. More assuredly, this resource exposes readers to alternative ways of re-imagining a system that is designed from a space of care, healing, and growth that promotes autonomy for all young people.
Anti-Oppressive Social Work: Ways of Knowing, Talking and Doing (external link, opens in new window)
By: Gary C. Dumbrill and June Ying Yee
June Ying Yee is Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Academic Coordinator, Internationally Educated Social Work Professionals Bridging Program
From the publisher: Anti-oppressive social work practice skilfully explained through personal narrative, theory, and practical exercises. With a blend of personal narrative, theory, and exercises, this text helps provide a deep understanding of society and its power relationships so students can apply anti-oppression to their everyday lives and their future practice.
“This book is not intended only for social workers, but also those who are interested in learning about anti-oppression at a personal level,” says Yee. “Uniquely, the text integrates a race analysis that goes beyond theory to practical understanding.”
Awaken Your Inner Hero (external link, opens in new window)
By: Tammy Vallieres, Jen Fitzpatrick, Susan Howson
Susan Howson is Contract Lecturer, School of Early Childhood Studies
From the publisher: "Awaken Your Inner Hero, Volume One" features 50 YOUth Heroes from across Canada who have created positive change within their home, school and or community. Also featured are their mentors, teachers, coaches and influencers who champion each YOUth Hero to share their courageous stories with the world. From Global Peace Prize recipients, water advocates, Diana Award winners, to youth mental health activists, this book showcases the courage, resilience and tenacity of each featured co-author. This compilation of hopes and dreams for the world is a true testament to the magnificence that children of all ages encompass. These stories will inspire youth and adults around the world to look within and Awaken their own inner Hero!
Child & Youth Care Across Sectors: Canadian Perspectives, Volume 1 (external link, opens in new window)
Edited by: Kiaras Gharabaghi and Grant Charles
Kiaras Gharabaghi is Director and Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care and Interim John C. Eaton Chair in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Community Services
From the publisher: A pivotal textbook in the field, this comprehensive collection is the first of two volumes that cross-examine all active child and youth care sectors across the human services. Co-editors Kiaras Gharabaghi and Grant Charles bring together world-renowned professionals, academics, and researchers to address the past, present, and future state of child and youth care. Guiding students through the exploration of a growing field, this volume examines practice in a range of service sectors including residential care, foster homes, schools, cyberspace, outdoor adventure settings, and services that support Quebecois, deaf, autism, and LGBTQ+ communities. With a strong foundation in Canadian scholarship, this text also draws connections to child and youth care practice in a global context. International and Canadian students, scholars, and practitioners in child and youth care will benefit from this extensive and timely resource.
Early Years Education and Care in Canada (external link, opens in new window)
Edited by: Susan Jagger
Susan Jagger is Assistant Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies
From the publisher: Composed of original Canadian content, this ground-breaking textbook features multiple voices from the field that, together, offer an extensive and balanced examination of the historical and philosophical influences of early childhood education and care. Broad in scope, this collection presents the various topics and approaches in the field before examining each in detail. Specific subjects include Indigenous ways of knowing, holistic education, and the influence of educational philosophers and theorists such as Rousseau and Dewey. The text also discusses contemporary issues such as children’s rights, diversity and inclusion, multimodality, technology, ecology, and Indigenous education in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Featuring essays that examine the field’s history and future, as well as chapter questions that inspire critical analysis, this unique textbook is a fundamental resource for all students, academics, practitioners, and policymakers in education and early childhood education and care.
The International Handbook of Holistic Education (external link, opens in new window)
Edited by John P. Miller, Kelli Nigh, Marni J. Binder, Bruce Novak, Sam Crowell
Marni J. Binder is Associate Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies and Faculty Teaching Chair, Faculty of Community Services
From the publisher: Providing a comprehensive overview of holistic education’s history, conceptions, practices, and research, this Handbook presents an up-to-date, global picture of the field. Organized in five sections, the Handbook lays out the field’s theoretical and historical foundations; offers examples of holistic education in practice with regard to schools, programs, and pedagogies at all levels; presents research methods used in holistic education; outlines the growing effort among holistic educators to connect holistic teaching and learning with research practice; and examines present trends and future areas of interest in program development, inquiry, and research. This volume is a must-have resource for researchers and practitioners and serves as an essential foundational text for courses in the field.
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education (external link, opens in new window)
Edited by: Peter Pericles Trifonas, Susan Jagger
Susan Jagger is Assistant Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies
From the publisher: The Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education brings together interdisciplinary voices to ask critical questions about the meanings of diverse forms of cultural studies and the ways in which it can enrich both education scholarship and practice. Examining multiple forms, mechanisms, and actors of resistance in cultural studies, it seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining the theme of resistance in multiple fields and contested spaces from a holistic multi-dimensional perspective converging insights from leading scholars, practitioners, and community activists. Particular focus is paid to the practical role and impact of these converging fields in challenging, rupturing, subverting, and changing the dominant socio-economic, political, and cultural forces that work to maintain injustice and inequity in various educational contexts. With contributions from international scholars, this handbook serves as a key transdisciplinary resource for scholars and students interested in how and in what forms Cultural Studies can be applied to education.
Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice: Possibilities and Dangers (external link, opens in new window)
Edited by: Rachel Langford
Rachel Langford is Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies
From the publisher: This book responds to a growing academic interest in theorizing care and care work in the early childhood education and care sector. Drawing on feminist theories and philosophies, the chapter authors show how the caring practices of early childhood educators involve values, emotions, decision-making, action and work. With contributions from Belgium, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, the volume brings together early childhood studies, sociology, psychology, philosophy,and critical disability studies to offer diverse perspectives on feminist ethics of care in early childhood practice and its possibilities and dangers.
Using Linguistically Appropriate Practice: A Guide for Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms (external link, opens in new window)
By: Roma Chumak-Horbatsch
Roma Chumak-Horbatsch is Associate Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies
From the publisher: The presence of students for whom the school language is not their first language creates unique challenges and opportunities for teachers. This book provides an accessible guide to multilingual teaching using Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) in diverse classrooms worldwide. It is firmly grounded in the latest research on multilingual learners and takes a realistic approach to teaching in linguistically diverse schools today. The author argues that successful multilingual teaching is an option for all teachers, and that it has benefits for every child in the classroom, as well as the wider school community. The book:
- Provides profiles of LAP in action around the world;
- Explains the relationship between theory and multilingual practice;
- Lays out the characteristics of the LAP teacher and the LAP classroom;
- Discusses challenges that have been identified by teachers using LAP in their classrooms;
- Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing and enriching LAP;
- Includes resources to support multilingual teaching and learning.
This book is an invaluable support and inspiration for practising teachers and trainee teachers. It will help them transform their classrooms into multilingual environments where all children have equal opportunity to participate, learn and grow.
Vital Signs Measurement Across the Lifespan (opens in new window)
Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, Andy Tan
- Jennifer L. Lapum is Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
- Margaret Verkuyl is Professor, Nursing, Centennial College
- Wendy Garcia is Contract Lecturer, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
- Oona St-Amant is Assistant Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
- Andy Tan (Collaborative Nursing Degree Program ‘18) is an alumnus of the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
From the publisher: The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multimedia approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement. The textbook is an open educational resource (OER) that is available for free online to students and educators.
“The social justice nature of open educational resources capitalizes on creating and producing textbooks in collaboration with students,” says Lapum. “Current research has indicated that students found this resource to be highly interactive. It promotes students' understanding of nursing concepts in clear and innovative ways.”