{"product_id":"9781894549011","title":"Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eEducation 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 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnti-Homophobia Initiatives, Tim McCaskell and Vanessa Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulticultural and Anti-Racist Education, Ouida M. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Education, Maxine Bramble\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation for Citizenship, Mark Evans and Ian Hundey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevelopment Education, Louella Cronkhite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducating for Gender Equity, Lyndsay \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian Environmental Education, Constance Russell, Anne Bell and Leesa Fawcett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal Education, Graham Pike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining Assumptions in Health, Gale Smith and Linda Peterat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidening the Circle of Compassion  and Justice, David Selby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaw-Related Education, Wanda Cassidy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedia Education, Barry Duncan, Rick Shepherd and John Pungente, SJ\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoulded Images: First Nations People and Representation, Susan Fletcher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation Towards a Culture of Peace, V. Floresca-Cawagas and Toh Swee-Hin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"Canadian Scholars' Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032993874160,"sku":"9781894549011","price":29.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781894549011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}