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Book Synopsis A Canadian Childhood by : Carolyn D. Redl
Download or read book A Canadian Childhood written by Carolyn D. Redl and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn D. Redl's memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and ’50s captures, in the vivid memories of one girl, a way of life that is a vital part of Canada’s social history. But it is much more than a recollection of rural life. A Canadian Childhood is, above all, a beautifully realized coming-of-age story, the story of a girl with an adventurous and restless spirit in an era when women’s roles were just starting to become less restricted. Alongside the colourful details of everyday life—skiing to school, collecting magpie eggs for bounty, going “swimming” in a frigid snow-melt pond—are the struggles she experiences as she tries to find her place in the world. Raised in a warm and loving family, she is nevertheless painfully aware that her father longs for a boy to help work the farm. Going to the one-room farm school becomes an ordeal with the constant threat of bullying. The welcome move to town for high school is coupled with the humiliation of having to live in a garage. Through it all, the question of her future looms as she confronts the lure of the horizon. Richly detailed and deftly told, A Canadian Childhood will be enjoyed not just as a fascinating snapshot of history, but as a moving, honest, and courageous life story.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada by : Xiaobei Chen
Download or read book The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada written by Xiaobei Chen and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of childhood and youth has sparked international interest in recent years, and yet a reader highlighting Canadian work in this field has been long overdue. Filling this gap in the literature, The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada brings together cutting-edge Canadian scholarship in this important and growing discipline. Thought-provoking and timely, this edited collection explores a breadth of essential topics, including research on and with children and youth, the social construction of childhood and youth, intersecting identities, and citizenship, rights, and social engagement. With a focus on social justice, the contributing authors critically examine various sites of inequality in the lives of children and young people, such as gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, class, and disability. Encouraging further development of Canadian scholarship in the sociology of childhood and youth, this unique collection ensures that young people’s voices are heard by involving them in the research process. Pedagogical supports—including learning objectives, study questions, suggested research assignments, and a comprehensive glossary—make this volume an invaluable resource for students of childhood and youth studies in Canada.
Book Synopsis Childhood and Family in Canadian History by : Joy Parr
Download or read book Childhood and Family in Canadian History written by Joy Parr and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archeological evidence, paintings, photographs, census records, case files, and parish rolls, the contributors to this collection of original essays draw a fascinating portrait of the lives of Canadian children from the seventeenth century onward, describing child labor practices,the many different models of child-rearing, the family structure and economy and the lives of children in and outside of institutions. Together, these articles constitute a strong, rich addition to Canadian social history.
Download or read book Picturing Canada written by Gail Edwards and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries. Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry. An important and wholly original work, Picturing Canada is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada.
Book Synopsis Depicting Canada’s Children by : Loren Lerner
Download or read book Depicting Canada’s Children written by Loren Lerner and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.
Book Synopsis Education of African Canadian Children by : Awad Ibrahim
Download or read book Education of African Canadian Children written by Awad Ibrahim and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis of the educational experiences of African Canadian children and youth. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars, The Education of African Canadian Children critically responds to and comments on the historical, cultural, institutional, and informational contexts and problems of the learning lives of these children. The authors offer a comprehensive history of African Canadians’ encounters with the education system, the current challenges they are facing, and opportunities for more inclusive and democratic educational practices that will better serve this population. Advocating for cultural redemption and learning success for a population that is not being served well by Canadian public education systems, this book will benefit teachers, students, government program managers, policy makers, and educational researchers. The first multi-authored work of its kind, The Education of African Canadian Children opens new debates and possibilities for change for those concerned with education in their communities and their country.
Book Synopsis A Canadian Childhood by : Michael Persaud
Download or read book A Canadian Childhood written by Michael Persaud and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like growing up in Toronto, Canada's largest city? Especially when you're an immigrant and have lived in downtown and two other suburbs, North York and Scarborough, you get to experience a lot of the city. The author's journey is not a perilous one but is very eventful in what happens at most of the schools he attended. The cast of characters he encounters in elementary school, junior high (now called middle school), and his years in high school, where he rubbed shoulders with the children of the affluent, are fraught with much humor, some pain, some pleasure, and a lot of odd and witty occurrences. He has some academic illuminating points in his school years, and meets some people who went far in life, like an actress before she hit it big on one of America's most popular soap operas, The Young & The Restless, a popular Canadian rocker, and a Canadian Olympic boxer were all in his milieu, at times . The students he encounters like most North American cities are from many racial backgrounds. They populated his world quite nicely. His teachers are varied and made his life very interesting. Some were very inspirational in how they chose to deal with their pupils. In junior high and high school the author's life is rife with many instances of humor, and also him chasing his romantic heart after many females whom he adored. The book encompasses the author's student years in the seventies and eighties, before there was no Internet and CDs had not yet reared their head. This book is right up there with Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Teacher Man by Frank McCourt, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. If you enjoyed those books this one will fill your mind and heart with much gladness. There is pathos as well as many good times in these pages.
Book Synopsis Histories of Canadian Children and Youth by : Joy Parr
Download or read book Histories of Canadian Children and Youth written by Joy Parr and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of Canadian Children and Youth is a survey of the history of children, youth, and Canadian families from New France and the fur trade to immigrant children in the last half of the 20th century. It covers topics from growing up Metis to sex education to literacy; work and school; race and ethnicity, including some important articles on residential schools. Each section is carefully arranged by time period and theme and includes both primary and secondary sources.
Book Synopsis Suffer the Little Children by : Tamara Starblanket
Download or read book Suffer the Little Children written by Tamara Starblanket and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally approved as a master of laws thesis by a respected Canadian university, this book tackles one of the most compelling issues of our time—the crime of genocide—and whether in fact it can be said to have occurred in relation to the many Original Nations on Great Turtle Island now claimed by a state called Canada. It has been hailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenous and other scholars engaged with this issue, impacting not just Canada but states worldwide where entrapped Indigenous nations face absorption by a dominating colonial state. Starblanket unpacks Canada’s role in the removal of cultural genocide from the Genocide Convention, though the disappearance of an Original Nation by forced assimilation was regarded by many states as equally genocidal as destruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek to tailor the definition of genocide to escape its own crimes which were then even ongoing? The crime of genocide, to be held as such under current international law, must address the complicated issue of mens rea (not just the commission of a crime, but the specific intent to do so). This book permits readers to make a judgment on whether or not this was the case. Starblanket examines how genocide was operationalized in Canada, focused primarily on breaking the intergenerational transmission of culture from parents to children. Seeking to absorb the new generations into a different cultural identity—English-speaking, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian—Canada seized children from their parents, and oversaw and enforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs, languages and traditions, replacing them by those still in process of being established by the emerging Canadian state.
Book Synopsis History of Canadian Childhood and Youth by :
Download or read book History of Canadian Childhood and Youth written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography provides complete coverage of the English-language literature on contemporary Canadian childhood and youth. It covers scholarly, professional, and other writings, including books, monographs, the reports of government commissions, scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and doctoral dissertations. The material is arranged geographically, and the work includes an extensive subject index and a full author index. A companion volume provides coverage of contemporary Canadian childhood and youth.
Book Synopsis Why I Love Canada by : Daniel Howarth
Download or read book Why I Love Canada written by Daniel Howarth and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Canada in children's very own words.
Book Synopsis Child Data Citizen by : Veronica Barassi
Download or read book Child Data Citizen written by Veronica Barassi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the datafication of family life--in particular, the construction of our children into data subjects. Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Canadian Childhood and Youth by :
Download or read book Contemporary Canadian Childhood and Youth written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive bibliography provides complete coverage of the English-language literature on contemporary Canadian childhood and youth. It covers scholarly, professional, and other substantial writings, including books, monographs, the reports of government commissions, scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and doctoral dissertations. The material is arranged geographically and includes full subject and author indexes. A companion volume covers the literature on the history of Canadian childhood.
Book Synopsis Republic of Childhood 2/E by : Egoff
Download or read book Republic of Childhood 2/E written by Egoff and published by . This book was released on 1984-04-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada by : Larry Prochner
Download or read book Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada written by Larry Prochner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field: What programs are currently available and what are their origins? How are adults prepared for work in these programs? How do children within the programs spend their day? What policies guide the programs? How has the field reflected on itself through research? There are no simple answers, but the essays in this collection contribute to a creative reframing of the questions. The authors include psychologists, sociologists, historians, teacher educators, and social policy analysts.
Book Synopsis A Canadian Year by : Tania McCartney
Download or read book A Canadian Year written by Tania McCartney and published by EK Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Liam, Ava, Oki, Chloe and Noah — Canadian kids representing a multicultural blend of culture and race that typifies our amazing country. They’ll take you through a year in the life of Canada’s kids, from celebrations, traditions and events, to our everyday way of life and the little things that make childhood so memorable. Now in paperback, A Canadian Year is a picture book bursting with national pride. It’s a snapshot of who we are as Canadians, blending our modern-day culture and lifestyle with past traditions and native heritage. Its pages feature meandering text, dates and gorgeous illustrations showcasing our five Canadian kids at play, at school, at home, and enjoying the sights and sites of our nation. From the frozen glaciers of our north to the sweeping prairies, rocky mountains and great lakes, from vibrant cities to tiny towns, this is our Canadian childhood.
Book Synopsis Taking Responsibility for Children by : Samantha Brennan
Download or read book Taking Responsibility for Children written by Samantha Brennan and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the moral obligations owed to children by their caregivers. Some focus primarily on the responsibilities of parents, while others focus on the responsibilities of society and government. The essays reflect a mix of concern with the practical and the philosophical aspects of taking responsibility for children, addressing such topics as parental obligations, the rights and entitlements of children, the responsibility of the state, the role and nature of public education in a liberal society, the best ways to ensure adequate child protection, the licensing of parents, children’s religious education, and children’s health. Taking Responsibility for Children will be of interest to philosophers, advocates for children’s interests, and those interested in public policy, especially as it relates to children and families.
