University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
First Nations Education Policy in Canada
Progress or Gridlock?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting...
Dependent America?
How Canada and Mexico Construct US Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Following the acclaimed Uncle Sam and Us and the influential Does North America Exist? Stephen Clarkson — the preeminent analyst of North America's political economy — and Matto Mildenberger turn continental scholarship on its head by showing how Canada and Mexico contribute to the United States'...
Political Responsibility Refocused
Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences. Has this changed our moral and political obligations towards people distant from us in space and time – for instance, to generations...
by Geoffrey Peruniak
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Career development - the processes that shape a person's career over his or her life - is a relatively new field of research in applied psychology. In A Quality of Life Approach to Career Development, Geoffrey S. Peruniak draws from philosophy, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, political...
by Lynn Bosetti, Dianne Gereluk
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the...
Beyond Persuasion
Communication Strategies for Healthcare Managers in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The advent of social media has forever changed how organizations communicate with the public, and healthcare organizations are no exception. Beyond Persuasion provides healthcare managers with a guide to using strategic communication to meet both personal and professional objectives in the digital...
Confronting the Blue Revolution
Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privileged consumers in the global North, it has come at a high price for the South: ecological devastation, displacement of rural subsistence farmers, and...
Durable Peace
Challenges for Peacebuilding in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2004
The African continent has been racked with war in the years since decolonization. In the aftermath of violent conflict, peace is often fragile. With Durable Peace, Taisier M. Ali and Robert O. Matthews have brought together leading scholars to discuss the experiences of ten African countries - Angola,...
Adaptive Education
An Inquiry-Based Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The obstacles that prevent the latest educational research reaching the classroom are daunting: few channels to communicate the results of educational research, fewer opportunities for teachers to participate in research themselves, and little support for honing a scientific approach to teaching.
The...
Learning to Change Lives
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD’s powerful...
Making Medicare
New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This...
Ukraine and Europe
Cultural Encounters and Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities of Ukraine’s relationship with Europe and its role the continent’s historical and cultural development.
Encompassing...
Northern Communities Working Together
The Social Economy of Canada's North
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy – a sector that includes nonprofits, co-operatives, social enterprises, and community economic development organizations. Northern Communities Working Together highlights the...
Ideas and the Pace of Change
National Pharmaceutical Insurance in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Canada is the only OECD country that has universal, comprehensive public hospital and medical insurance but lacks equivalent pharmaceutical coverage. In Ideas and the Pace of Change, Katherine Boothe explains the reasons for this unique situation. Using archival, interview, and polling data, Boothe...