Download or read book Youth University and Canadian Society written by Paul Axelrod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Axelrod and John Reid take the reader through one hundred years of the complex and turbulent history of youth, university, and society. Contributors explore the question of how students have been affected by war and social change and discuss who was able to attend university and who was not, showing how access to privilege has changed over the years.
Download or read book Youth University and Canadian Society written by Paul Axelrod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Axelrod and John Reid take the reader through one hundred years of the complex and turbulent history of youth, university, and society. Contributors explore the question of how students have been affected by war and social change and discuss who was
Download or read book Immigrant Youth in Canada written by Stacey Wilson-Forsberg and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant Youth in Canada is designed to help students gain a better understanding of the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of the immigrant and second-generation youth experience in Canada. Thirty-five Canadian researchers and practitioners offer strategies to respond to thechallenges immigrant youth face, and explore ways to recognize the assets these youth bring to Canadian society.
Download or read book Youth and Society written by Vappu Tyyskä and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential third edition, Vappu Tyyskä examines the challenges faced by today's young people through a critical lens. Difficult questions related to such issues as employment, education, social pressure, identity, and crime are explored by Tyyskä as she paints a fascinating picture of modern youth in three countries: Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The author explores the negative stereotypes surrounding young people, and argues that it is time to contextualize our understanding of youth by addressing the underlying social, economic, and political issues they face. Each of the ten revised chapters begins with a list of key learning objectives and ends with discussion questions to aid in the learning process and stimulate critical thinking. This new edition incorporates updated statistics, comprehensive tables, and revised narratives in which the author explores topics pertinent to today's youth such as the influence of social media, eating disorders, and recent changes to the juvenile justice system.
Download or read book Making a Middle Class written by Paul Axelrod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities of the 1930s, declared one observer, were "loafing places for rich men's sons." In Making a Middle Class Paul Axelrod challenges this popular perception, arguing that while students who attended university during the Great Depression were relatively privileged, the majority were neither terribly affluent nor completely sheltered from hard economic times. Nor were they all men.
Download or read book Achieving Student Success written by Donna Gail Hardy Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's colleges and universities, whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from US sources. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first comprehensive description of professional student services in Canadian colleges and universities from the perspective of the practitioner-scholars who create and lead them. Hardy Cox and Strange begin with an overview of student services dealing with the matriculation of post-secondary students - through enrolment management, financial assistance, and orientation to the institution and accommodation - and then discuss housing and residence life, student leadership programs, systems of judicial and academic integrity, and student support and adjustment through counseling, health and wellness initiatives, career and employment advice, and a variety of services that can respond to a variety of needs. How these services are integrated professionally on campus, including their organization and leadership as well as their design within differing institutional contexts, and delivery methods, is the focus of the closing chapters, followed by a distillation of principles that underlie effective student services.
Download or read book Children in English Canadian Society written by Neil Sutherland and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2000-07-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutherland (educational studies, U. of British Columbia, emeritus) examines the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children. He describes the process by which, in the latter part of the 19th century, English Canadians developed new beliefs about childhood, established two special health services to bring children the benefits of recent medical discoveries, changed their approach to care for neglected or delinquent children, and reformed the education system to meet the needs of industrial society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Cultures Communities and Conflict written by Euthalia Lisa Panayotidis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to the social, intellectual, and academic history of universities, the collection provides rich approaches to integral issues at the intersection of higher education and wartime, including academic freedom, gender, peace and activism on campus, and the challenges of ethnic diversity. The contributors place the historical university in several contexts, not the least of which is the university's substantial power to construct and transform intellectual discourse and promote efforts for change both on- and off-campus.
Download or read book About Canada Children Youth written by Bernard Schissel and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth. About Canada: Children and Youth examines each of the rights within the Canadian context – and finds Canada wanting. Schissel argues that although our expressed desire is to protect and care for our children, the reality is that young people, in Canada and around the world, often lack basic human rights. The lives of young people are steeped in abuse from the education and justice systems, exploitation by corporations, ill health and poverty. And while the hearts of Canadians go out to youth in distant countries suffering under oppressive circumstances, those same hearts often have little sympathy for the suffering of youth, particularly disadvantaged youth, within Canada. This book explores our contradictory views and argues that we must do more to ensure that the rights of the child are upheld.
Download or read book Trends and Change in Canadian Society written by Brigham Young Card and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education written by Donna Hardy Cox and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the Canadian post-secondary education system has evolved to become more inclusive, now welcoming groups historically excluded from its many opportunities. Inviting the reader to explore the consequences of a rapidly changing student population, Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education presents new thinking about how education in general, and student services in particular, should be designed and delivered. A follow-up to Donna Hardy Cox and C. Carney Strange’s Achieving Student Success (2010), this volume focuses on the best programs and practices in Canadian colleges and universities to improve the educational experiences of students who are Indigenous, people of colour, francophone, LGBTQQ, disabled, and adult learners, as well as international and first-generation students. Presenting findings obtained from both personal insight and relevant research, higher education practitioners and scholars from across the country detail the characteristics, concerns, and specific needs of each diverse group, to conclude that the success of these new students and the future of Canadian society depends on its post-secondary institutions’ capacities to acknowledge students’ differences, capitalize on their gifts, and accommodate them accordingly. Exploring the enriching breadth of university communities, Serving Diverse Students in Canadian Higher Education focuses on a new paradigm of individual differences and student success.
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.
Download or read book The Promise of Schooling written by Paul Axelrod and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-05-02 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was schooling in the early nineteenth century? What lay behind the campaign to extend publicly funded education? What went on inside the Canadian classroom? How did schools address the needs of Native students, blacks, and the children of immigrants? What cultural and social roles did universities serve by the beginning of the twentieth century? And how were schools affected by the economic and social pressures arising from the Industrial Revolution? The book contends that educational authorities built and reformed schools in ways that were not always consistent with their idealistic visions. Economic constraints, political expediency, and the agendas of ordinary citizens all influenced the life of the Canadian school in an era marked by dramatic social change. Drawing from an abundant scholarly literature published over the last two decades, this study seeks to expose readers to the richness of the field of educational history. Written for a broad audience, it also hopes, by providing historical context, to stimulate informed discussion about educational issues.
Download or read book Youth and Society written by Robert Douglas White and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a Canadian edition, Youth and Society: Exploring the Social Dynamics of Youth Experience provides a comprehensive overview of key topics in the sociology of youth. Drawing on empirical evidence and current theoretical perspectives, the text examines cutting-edge issues confrontingyouth, youth researchers, and policy makers today such as youth and social change; class inequality; gender and sexuality; education; youth employment; social identity; youth and technology; and health and well-being. Seamlessly integrating Canadian data and examples throughout with fully redesignedchapters that address topics such as Aboriginal youth and youth justice, the text offers a Canadian context while maintaining a global perspective. Current and in-depth, the Canadian edition is a compelling exploration of the role of young people in contemporary society and how they adapt to themany challenges related to growing inequality and rapid social change.
Download or read book Socialization and Values in Canadian Society Socialization social stratification and ethnicity written by Robert M. Pike and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nation and Society written by Margaret Conrad and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to accompany the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples and the one-volume synthesis, Canada: A National History. This book can also supplement any survey of Canadian history text or serve as a stand-alone text. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History offers students a sample of some of the best recent scholarship on the history of Canada since Confederation. The readings are grouped in a combination of time periods and themes that are commonly used in studies of the post-Confederation period: "Inventing Canada, 1867-1914"; "Economy and Society in the Industrial Age, 1867-1918"; "Transitional Years: Canada 1919-1945"; "Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975"; and "Post-Modern Canada."
Download or read book Youth and Development written by William Alexander Young and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored the utility of experiential methods in development education and training, with particular regard for Canadian youth. It did so by examining the theoretical potential of the Canada World Youth program (CWY) as a development practitioner training program, by assessing the long-term impact on former Canadian participants of CWY, and by investigating the relative effects of variables that the professional literature suggests could influence CWY goal-attainment among participants. Data were collected through a questionnaire designed specifically for the study. It was mailed to the 986 participants who had completed the CWY program from 1975 to 1979. A response rate of 83 per cent was achieved. The responses were coded and some 300 variables defined and examined through computer-assisted statistical analysis. Overall, the findings suggested that CWY has been successful in achieving its development education goals: former participants believed that CWY had increased considerably their personal autonomy, leadership skills, intercultural appreciation and skills, Canadian cultural appreciation and skills, and development understanding and involvement. However, a majority of participants had re-entry problems; women reported significantly more readjustment problems and tended to be more repulsed by Canadian society than men. High levels of goal-attainment were most strongly associated with high program intensity, high CWY group integration, participant optimism on re-entry, and shift in participant view toward the dependency theory of underdevelopment. In addition, the achievement of high personal autonomy and Canadian intercultural appreciation and skills correlated strongly with increased intercultural skills. In general, goal-attainment was not affected by participant background characteristics or re-entry problems. It was concluded that while intense experience can produce a superior learning opportunity, it can be a difficult educational medium to supervise. In this regard, and in reference to development practitioner training, it was suggested that particular attention should be given to the quality of leadership during training, and to the nature of the trainee's re-entry experience. Finally, on the basis of the study findings, specific recommendations were made to the CWY program.
