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Supporting Success: Aboriginal Students in Higher Education
Author: Cynthia Justine Gallop, Nicole Bastien
Today, higher education is recognized as an important tool for capacity building and assisting Aboriginal communities to achieve their goals of self-determination and self-government. This paper presents some of the findings of a qualitative study conducted in a midsized Canadian postsecondary institution
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8 August 2022
Bandwidth for schools: Helping Pre-k-12 students reclaim cognitive resources lost to poverty, trauma, racism, and social marginalization
Author: Cia Verschelden
This book makes the case that societal realities–such as poverty, racism, and social marginalization–result in depleted cognitive resources for students and for those who are trying to help them succeed.
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Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
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How microaggressions are like mosquito bites
Author: Fusion Comedy
For people that still don’t think microaggresions are a problem: just imagine that instead of being a stupid comment, a microaggression is a mosquito bite.
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Queering the Academy
Author: Trent University
Celebrating the contributions that queer students, staff, and scholars make to the academy and have invited our colleagues to consider how they can “Queer” their lectures, course materials, and content.
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4 Ways To Deconstruct Systems Of Oppression
Author: Janice Gassam Asare
Oppressive systems are structures within greater society that allow inequities to continue. What are some things we can all do to deconstruct oppressive systems and amplify the voices of the marginalized?
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642,000 international students: Canada now ranks 3rd globally in foreign student attraction
Author: El-Assal, K.
Canada’s international student population has tripled over the past decade to 642,000 in 2019. Canada has moved into third place globally behind the United States of America and Australia.
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6 August 2022
Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation
Author: Derald Wing Sue
The revised and updated second edition of Microaggressions in Everyday Life presents an introduction to the concept of microaggressions, classifies the various types of microaggressions, and offers solutions for ending microaggressions at the individual, group, and community levels.
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8 August 2022
Wisahkotewinowak: An urban Indigenous garden collective in the Waterloo-Wellington region.
Author: Wisahkotewinowak
Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory.
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Transformative Social Work Education: Student Learning Needs and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action
Author: Garrison McCleary
This research discusses the learning needs of social work students in identifying and implementing the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action in education and practice.
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6 August 2022
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