University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
The Expansion of the Educational System
Ontario's Educative Society, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume contains a general introduction to the whole series, followed by seven chapters giving most of the quantitative information in compact form. The introduction discusses some current issues and problems in education: the economic value of education to the individual and to society, the effects...
The Question of Access
Disability, Space, Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape. But many methods of addressing these issues — installing signs, ramps, and accessible washrooms — frame disability only as a problem to be ‘fixed.’ The Question of Access investigates...
The Practice of Field Instruction in Social Work
Theory and Process (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
This book is designed to guide social workers in their work as field instructors. It is unique in that it presents a conceptual system that unites social work theory taught in the classroom to actual practice in a variety of community settings. This system gives the field instructor a model to guide...
Honour Among Men and Nations
Transformations of an idea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
To no group subject to sociological and political analysis has honour seemed to matter more than to the military. Their idea of it has commonly been accepted as the most superior, open to emulation to the limited extent that different circumstances and purposes in non-military life permit.
The...
A Dutch Homesteader On The Prairies
The Letters of Wilhelm de Gelder 1910-13
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The letters in this volume, found in the original Dutch in the archives of the Netherlands Emigration Service in Holland, form a unique chronicle of one European homesteader in Saskatchewan from 1910 to 1913. They were written by Willem dr Gelder whose experience as a homesteader was typical of that...
Deaf-Blind Infants and Children
A Developmental Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
This is a comprehensive reference guide for teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind. It provides day-to-day guidance and suggestions about techniques and methods for assessing children with multi-sensory deprivation, and for devising programs to help them cope.
Historical Identities
The Professoriate in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
As intellectual engines of the university, professors hold considerable authority and play an important role in society. By nature of their occupation, they are agents of intellectual culture in Canada.
Historical Identities is a new collection of essays examining the history of the professoriate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Perspectives on Transitions in Schooling and Instructional Practice examines student transitions between major levels of schooling, teacher transitions in instructional practice, and the intersection of these two significant themes in education research. Twenty-six leading international experts offer...
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa
Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with...
Soils in Canada
Geological, Pedological and Engineering Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
This work originated in a Symposium forming part of the programme for Section IV (Geological Sciences including Mineralogy) of the Royal Society of Canada, which met at Queen's University, Kingston, in 1960. Of wide scope, it demonstrates the progress now being made in Canada in the study of its vast...
The Talent Revolution
Longevity and the Future of Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
The definitive guide to maximizing workforce value, The Talent Revolution exposes work-life longevity as the most influential driver transforming today’s workplace – a competitive edge for organizations smart enough to capitalize on it.
This is a first – a book that positions older workers...
Victorian Jesus
J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher...
Design Thinking at Work
How Innovative Organizations are Embracing Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
The result of extensive international research with multinationals, governments, and non-profits, Design Thinking at Work explores the challenges organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems. Noting how many organizations have embraced "design thinking"...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action. They include: “Agency” by Donald Davidson with...