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  1. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  2. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  3. Chomsky on MisEducation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  4. Coming of Age in America
    Resource Type: Book
  5. Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  7. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  8. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  9. Connexions Library: Education, Children
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  10. A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
    Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
  11. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
  12. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  13. Death at an Early Age
    Resource Type: Book
  14. A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  15. Democracy and Education
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
  16. Deschooling Society
    Resource Type: Book
  17. The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms
    Resource Type: Book
  18. Escape from Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
  19. Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
  20. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  21. Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
  22. Freedom and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
  23. Growing Up Absurd
    Resource Type: Book
  24. How Children Fail
    Resource Type: Book
  25. In the Corporate Interest
    The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  26. Instead of Education
    Resource Type: Book
  27. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
    Resource Type: Book
  28. Land and Community
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
  29. Living and Learning
    The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
  30. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  31. On Education
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Ontario Teens for Our Education
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  33. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    Resource Type: Book
  34. People for Education
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Working together to defend fully publicly-funded education in Ontario.
  35. The Present Moment in Education
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  36. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
  37. Revolution of the Deaf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  38. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  39. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  40. 36 Children
    Resource Type: Book
  41. The Tyranny of Testing
    Resource Type: Book
  42. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989

Experts on Education in the Sources Directory

  1. Acadia University
  2. Active Healthy Kids Canada
  3. Aga Khan Foundation Canada
  4. The Alberta Teachers' Association
  5. Arrowsmith School
  6. Association of Canadian Community Colleges
  7. Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
  8. Brandon University
  9. Brock University
  10. CSTD
  11. Can-Fit-Pro
  12. Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants Inc. (CAPIC-ACCPI)
  13. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
  14. Canadian Council on Learning
  15. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
  16. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
  17. Canadian Union of Public Employees
  18. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  19. Centennial College
  20. Covenant House
  21. Durham College
  22. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
  23. Frontier College
  24. Lakehead University
  25. Lutheran Church -- Canada
  26. The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences
  27. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
  28. National Union of Public and General Employees
  29. Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
  30. Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
  31. Ontario Literacy Coalition
  32. Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
  33. Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
  34. Royal BC Museum
  35. St. Clement's School
  36. Simon Fraser University
  37. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
  38. University of Regina
  39. The University of Western Ontario
  40. University of Winnipeg
  41. Vancouver Community College

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