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Composed of original Indigenous and 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.

Offers guidance and insight to students who are learning about the growing and complex role of education assistants. This includes how to support academic, social, inclusive, and independent learning environments in schools and collaborate with parents and teachers in the planning and evaluation of student progress.

Investigates the practices, theories, research, and history of holistic approaches as it relates to a wide range of health care and human service professionals. This text offers a uniquely comparative and integrated understanding of both ancient and modern Indigenous, Eastern, and Western traditional practices.

Explores contemporary moral challenges in health care, providing students with the essential tools to understand and critically evaluate the leading arguments in the field and to develop their own arguments on important moral problems in health care.

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. The editors bring together world-renowned professionals, academics, and researchers to address the past, present, and future state of child and youth care.

Weaves together the contributions of accomplished and diverse scholars to offer an expansive and critical analysis of women's work in Canada. Students will use an intersectional approach to explore issues of gender, class, race, immigrant status, disability, sexual orientation, Indigeneity, age, and ethnicity in relation to employment.

Argues that the absence of a unifying theory or conceptual idea(s) pursuant to residential care perpetuate dynamics of mediocrity and complacency toward inadequate standards and practices. Kiaras Gharabaghi re-constructs the possibilities for this form of care as a space for healing, growth, and the promotion of autonomy for young people.

La France : histoire, societe, culture est le premier ouvrage qui encourage les etudiants a adopter une perspective comparative et transculturelle leur permettant de reflechir a leur propre culture d'origine tout en decouvrant l'histoire, la societe et la culture de la France.

Provides a critique and deconstructs the myths that serve to uphold the current "moral panic" around boys' supposed failures in literacy and diminished chances of success. Readers are asked to look beyond simple gender binarism to see different, more complex and often more egregious categorizations of students in their classrooms.

Offers a unique opportunity to examine six different juvenile justice systems and youth crime around the world. All eleven articles are original contributions from a distinguished set of experts on juvenile justice in their respective countries. Each contribution examines a set of common elements.

Forgiveness is an untapped force in our revenge-oriented culture. These stories show that forgiveness is not condoning or forgetting, or failing to set limits. Forgiveness is recognising and acknowledging all that was wrong, but refusing to be destroyed by it, and refusing to be drawn into a cycle of hatred and bitterness.

Psychiatric mental status examinations are part of the job of nurses, physicians, and many others in the field of mental health and addictions. In this highly accessible guide, Cheryl Webster Pollard introduces students and emerging practitioners to the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct a comprehensive examination. Fundamentals of the Psychiatric Mental Status Examination is an interactive workbook containing case studies, activities, and study questions to guide students through the process of administering the examination and documenting the information.Each chapter explores a distinct aspect of the assessment, allowing readers to focus on key areas of interest. Students will learn how to assess for potential psychopathology, psychosis, and suicidal or homicidal ideation, and will examine unique cultural and age considerations that may affect individual experiences. Well-suited to a wide range of disciplines, including health, nursing, social work, and occupational therapy, this workbook''s practical approach and rich pedagogical content make it an ideal resource for new and aspiring practitioners in these fields.Features:Offers the psychiatric mental status examination in manageable, easily digested piecesIncludes case studies with discussion questions and activities that relate to specific cultural and age factorsPresents in-depth examples that support a wide range of learners

Positioning youth culture as a 20th century social experiment that is coming to an end, Marcel Danesi discusses the various musically-defined eras that saw rise to hippie culture, punk, disco, and the hip-hop movement, among other social groups. The chapters explore how these generations were instrumental in the fight against racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and sexual repression.

Scholars understand what Indigenous research is, but how we practice Indigenous research ethically and respectfully in Canada is under exploration. This ground-breaking edited collection provides readers with concrete and in-depth examples of how to overcome the challenges of Indigenous research with respect to Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and ontology.

How and why do ""ordinary"" women engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these women to age as activists? Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists in an intergenerational conversation that addresses these questions.

Supports students through the process of understanding and critically evaluating research in the social sciences. This essential text develops and strengthens students' ability to develop research paper topics, conduct thorough literature searches, critically evaluate research, and effectively summarise and share information.

Provides a concrete method for studying the relation between language and society. Written in Danesi's accessible and engaging style, highlighting the fascinating and vital work going on in anthropological linguistics, this book will also appeal to a broad audience of language students, scholars, and enthusiasts.

Le but de cet ouvrage est d'initier a l'analyse linguistique en degageant la structure du francais moderne. Cela, de la maniere la plus claire possible, sans jargon inutile. Notre analyse est ouverte a tous les courants et non enferme dans une ecole contraignante.

A comprehensive overview of how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and traditional medicine (TM) affect women's reproductive health. Providing a detailed analysis, authors address the cultural values and medicinal uses of CAM and TM for reproductive health among women in different sociocultural environments and geographic settings.

Employing a historical perspective, this volume examines the relationship between police and youth offenders according to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) and addresses the challenges officers face when dealing with young persons, the way police are perceived by young persons, and the strategies police use to positively interact with youth offenders.

Now in its second edition, Race and Racialization presents new scholarship focusing specifically on immigration and migration, policies of multiculturalism, whiteness, gender and race, and settler relations. Contributors explore the problem of institutional racism from historical, comparative, and international perspectives.

Presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community's health status and determines the effectiveness of modern aid solutions against war, governance, and contamination.

Offers an overview of the history of comparative education and educational development, exploring issues related to social justice, human rights, gender equality, and indigenous knowledge in the classroom. This edited collection will help students better understand how globalization has impacted the classroom and led to the internationalization of schooling.

Stylistique differentielle, textologie et traduction propose une etude comparee systematisee des caracteristiques stylistiques et culturelles de l'anglais et du francais, etude qui se situe generalement a l'etape initiale de la formation en traduction.

Set along the Pacific Northwest Coast in the 1950s, Ravensong tells the story of an urban Native community devastated by an influenza epidemic. In this passionate story about a young woman's quest for answers, author Lee Maracle speaks unflinchingly of the gulf between two cultures.

Unique in scope and content, this methods-based text draws on the process of creating a digital archive of commemorative tattoos to examine the production and mobilization of knowledge across communities, disciplines, and space. Deborah Davidson's multidisciplinary collection addresses the cultural history of tattooing and the social meanings and implications of commemorative tattoos.

Outlines the challenges and advantages of conducting research with marginalized communities and within organisational contexts. Students in social work programs will gain a thorough understanding of the decision-making processes involved in conducting anti-oppression research studies through examples of anti-oppression research applications and personal experiences within the field.