1. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
2. The AT Reader
   Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1985
   
3. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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.
   
4. Chomsky on Democracy and Education
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
   Education stands at the intersection of Noam Chomsky's two lives as scholar and social critic: As a linguist he is keenly interested in how children acquire language, and as a political activist he views the education system as an important lever of social change.This book gathers for the first time his impressive range of writings on these subjects, spanning issues of language, power, policy and method.
5. Chomsky on MisEducation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
6. Class Warfare
   The Assault on Canada's School
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
7. Coming of Age in America
   Resource Type: Book
   
8. Compulsory Mis-education and The Community of Scholars
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Connexions Annual 1989
   A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   
10. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
    
11. Connexions Annual Overview: Education, Children
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    Education is being seen as an essential element of grassroots development both in Canada and abroad. The guiding idea is that education is not merely concerned with imparting knowledge, but with helping people develop the skills and the confidence to analyse and solve problems and thus to act, both individually and collectively.
12. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   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.
13. Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
14. Corporations Meet Resistance Inside Boston's Schools
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The corporate elite are a small minority and their values are the opposite of most peoples' values. Things that most people consider immoral, like deliberately increasing the number of students who fail to graduate, are ruthlessly pursued by the corporate elite in order to control people and to justify increasing inequality in society.
15. A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
16. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
17. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
18. Critical pedagogy
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    a teaching approach that attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate: in other words, a theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness
19. Dark Age Ahead
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    
20. Death at an Early Age
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
22. Democracy and Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916   Published: 1997
    John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
23. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
24. Deschooling Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Deschooling Our Lives would be of interest to people wishing to learn about alternative methods of education beyond the confines of the conventional school system. The book is a collection of short piece by various homeschooling advocates such as Holt, Tolstoy and Illich. The articles are both theoretical and practical with some concrete descriptions and examples of alternative schooling projects.
25. Deschooling Society
    Resource Type: Book
    
26. Dewey, John
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1859-1952). American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.
27. The Dignity of Youth and Other Atavisms
    Resource Type: Book
    
28. Disability in the Majority World I've got a right!
    New Internationalist November 2005
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    Discussion of people with dissability and their fight for equal rights.
    
29. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
    
30. Educating Kids for Jobs for the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We distribute jobs by social class. If we ‘qualify’ all students with a college degree, then 100% of students will be competing for the 22% of jobs requiring college degrees. The answer here is not to push more kids in to college but pay better salaries to those jobs not requiring college.
31. The Education of Black People
    Ten Critiques, 1906–1960
    Resource Type: Book
    Calls for great energy and initiative; for African Americans controlling their own lives, and for continued experimentation and innovation, while keeping education’s fundamentally radical nature in view.
    
32. Escape from Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
    
33. Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
34. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
35. Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    
36. Freedom and Beyond
    Resource Type: Book
    
37. Growing Up Absurd
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    
38. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    
39. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
40. How Children Fail
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
42. How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
43. I Won't Learn from You
    And Other Inquiries Into the Control and Liberation of Learning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This collection of essays discusses what takes place when a student's intelligence, dignity, or integrity is compromised.
44. In the Corporate Interest
    The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
45. Instead of Education
    Resource Type: Book
    
46. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
    Resource Type: Book
    
47. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
48. Land and Community 
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
49. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics in Michael Nickerson's book. By using the example of Kerela, a state in India with a population comparable to Canada's he shows how a society by working together can become car free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
50. 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
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    The "Hall-Dennis" Report, proposing new objectives and direction in education in Ontario.
    
51. Marxism & Education
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Documents on education and Marxism.
52. MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
53. 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.
54. New Reformation
    Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
    
55. On Education
    Resource Type: Book
    
56. On Education
    Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and Writings for Children from "The Age of Gold"
    Resource Type: Book
    Writings on educational theory, pedagogy, and the relationship between education and popular democracy.
57. Pedagogy of the Oppressed 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Freire maintains that every human being, no matter or "ignorant" or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at the world in a dialogical encounter with others, and that provided with the proper tools for such an encounter, can gradually perceive his personal and social reality and deal critically with it.
58. People for Education
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Working together to defend fully publicly-funded education in Ontario.
59. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
60. The Present Moment in Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1970
    
61. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    
62. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
63. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
64. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
    
65. Revolution of the Deaf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
66. Rituals Of Failure
    What Schools Really Teach
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
67. Selections from the Prison Notebooks 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
68. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
69. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
70. Studies in Socialist Pedagogy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    
71. "Take This Test and Shove It!"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1999
    Open resistance to high stakes tests is an important development: it can be the first step in a movement uniting students, teachers, parents, and others against the corporate assault on public education and for a democratic society.
72. Teach Me! Kids Will Learn When Oppression is the Lesson
    Resource Type: Book
    Provides an imaginative and workable way of reaching the students that our educational system is failing.Teach Me! is a book that will change the way teachers think.
73. Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
74. 36 Children
    Resource Type: Book
    
75. Three Cups of Tea
    One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
76. The Training Trap
    Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
77. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
78. The Tyranny of Testing
    Resource Type: Book
    
79. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
80. The Venezuelan Revolution
    New Internationalist June 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
81. Will Teach for Food
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    17 essays on academic labour in crisis.
82. You'll Never Be Good Enough: Schooling and Social Control
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    The remarkable thing about the public schools isn't that some teachers become demoralized and "burned out," or that some students drop out or do poorly, but that so many teachers and students achieve so much in the face of a system designed to fail.

Experts on Education in the Sources Directory

1. Aga Khan Foundation Canada
2. The Alberta Teachers' Association
3. Association of Canadian Community Colleges
4. Brandon University
5. Brock University
6. Can-Fit-Pro
7. Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants Inc. (CAPIC-ACCPI)
8. Canadian Centre for Skills Development & Travel College Canada
9. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
10. Canadian Council on Learning
11. Canadian Encyclopedia
12. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
13. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
14. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
15. Canadian Union of Public Employees
16. Canadians for Genocide Education
17. Connexions Library/Archive
18. Crescent School
19. Durham College
20. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
21. European Union
22. Frontier College
23. History & Policy
24. ibiblio.org
25. League of Arab States
26. Lutheran Church -- Canada
27. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
28. National Union of Public and General Employees
29. Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
30. Ophea (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
31. Ontario Professional Foresters Association
32. Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
33. Royal BC Museum
34. Simon Fraser University
35. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
36. United Nations Human Rights Council
37. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
38. University of Winnipeg
39. World Bank