University Commons Divided

Author : Peter MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487518554

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In recent years, a number of controversies have emerged from inside Canadian universities. While some of these controversies reflect debates occurring at a broader societal level, others are unique to the culture of universities and the way in which they are governed. In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon provides close readings of a range of recent incidents with a view to exploring new challenges within universities and the extent to which the idea of the university as ‘commons,’ a site for open and contentious disagreement, may be under threat. Among the incidents addressed in this book are the Jennifer Berdahl case in which a UBC professor alleged a violation of her academic freedom when she was phoned by the university's board chair to discuss her blog on which she speculated about the reasons for the university president's departure from office; the case of Root Gorelick, a Carleton University biologist and member of the university’s board of governors who refused to sign a code of conduct preventing public discussion of internal board discussions; the Facebook scandal at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Dentistry in which male students posted misogynistic comments about their female classmates. These and many other examples of turmoil in universities across the country are used to reach new insights on the state of freedom of expression and academic governance in the contemporary university. Accessibly written and perceptively argued, University Commons Divided is a timely and bold examination of the pressures seeking to transform the culture and governance of universities.

Author : Peter MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487522827

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Investigating issues of university governance in Canada, University Commons Divided analyzes several major cases at the university level that have come to exemplify infringements on the freedom of expression

Author : Meletiadou, Eleni
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668450840

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Handbook of Research on Fostering Social Justice Through Intercultural and Multilingual Communication by Meletiadou, Eleni Pdf

Students taught with a social justice framework will ideally have a stronger sense of what is just and fair and choose careers and lifestyles that support their communities. Over time, students look at current and historical events—even their own actions—through the lens of social justice, promoting better decision-making. Building trust impacts the bottom line for global companies, and multilingual communication is a core pillar for effective growth. It is essential to promote this trust through social justice and educate learners on intercultural and multilingual communication. The Handbook of Research on Fostering Social Justice Through Intercultural and Multilingual Communication explores innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices that foster social justice and enhance intercultural and multilingual communication in primary, secondary, post-secondary, and higher education. It demonstrates the value of adopting a social justice lens in education by broadening and strengthening the evidence base of the impact that this can make for students, educators, and society as a whole. Covering topics such as game-based assessment, social adaptation, and plurilingual classroom citizenship, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for educators and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, librarians, pre-service teachers, teacher educators, government officials, educational managers, linguists, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Barry W. Bussey
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781785272677

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The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law by Barry W. Bussey Pdf

'The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law' is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition. In response to growing academic and political pressure to reform charity law – including recurring calls to remove tax exemptions granted to religious charities – the scholars in this volume analyse the implications of legislative and legal developments in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In the process, they also confront more fundamental, sociological or philosophical questions on the very nature and role of religion in a secular society that would deny any space for religious communities outside their houses of worship. In other words, this book is concerned with the place of religion – and religious institutions – in contemporary society. It represents a series of concerns about the proper role of the state in relation to the differing beliefs of citizens – some of which will quite rightly manifest in actions to benefit the wider society. This debate, then, naturally engages with broader issues related to secularism, civic engagement and liberal democratic freedoms.

Author : Julia Eastman,Glen A. Jones,Claude Trottier,Olivier Bégin-Caouette
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780228012740

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University Governance in Canada by Julia Eastman,Glen A. Jones,Claude Trottier,Olivier Bégin-Caouette Pdf

Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context. Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional contexts of Canadian universities, as well as current trends, the book gives readers deep insight into how these institutions are governed. The authors explore the tensions between academic governance, external and internal stakeholder expectations, and societal demands as they relate to higher education and research in Canada. Comprising a case study of six major universities, the book examines the dynamics of governance at the institutional, provincial, federal, and international levels and reveals how Canadian universities make decisions and how well they are equipped to meet current and future opportunities and challenges. Canadians invest a lot of money, time, hope, and expectations in their universities. University Governance in Canada gives policy-makers, scholars, governors, leaders at all levels, faculty, staff, students, and citizens at large knowledge and tools that will help ensure the country’s universities excel in their missions and deliver fully on these investments.

Author : Deborah C. Poff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030775322

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University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance by Deborah C. Poff Pdf

This book provides new and original research on the purpose and functions of universities from the perspective of corporate social responsibility. It addresses professional ethics questions that relate to universities as corporate citizens. Divided into two sections, the book starts out with an examination of the concept of universities. It explores the differences between historic and contemporary universities, the history and nature of university governance, the role of higher education, and the problem of domination and subjugation in a management context. The second section looks at the faculty, the students, and the role of spirituality in the university and research. It examines such themes as the nature of faculty and professors, faculty as change agents, diversity, inclusivity and incivility, academic integrity, citizenship of students, and ethical responsibility of researchers. The book calls on the expertise from both the fields of business and professional ethics and university management and leadership. It approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Author : Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487539665

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Conversations on Ethical Leadership by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic Pdf

Highlighting ethical leadership strategies, Conversations on Ethical Leadership explores what makes for strong, well-informed, morally sound decision-making at all levels of an organization. In addressing a range of challenges faced by universities and applying those lessons to the broader community of the public and private sectors, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and her contributors tackle a host of issues related to advancing ethics, diversity, inclusiveness, and the art of moral leadership. Each chapter, written by an author with roots in the academy, includes a subsequent commentary by a community leader who highlights the broader takeaways that emerge for society from the university experience. In this way, the book becomes a conversation between the academic and non-academic worlds about issues that affect any prominent organization. It offers a unique range of novel and timely topics, from responsibility-centred budgeting to post-pandemic planning, responsiveness to climate change, Indigenous leadership, free speech, academic integrity, and much more. In doing so, Conversations on Ethical Leadership ultimately reveals how we can build and preserve an ethically responsible sense of purpose at our post-secondary learning institutions and beyond.

Author : Paul W. Gooch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487531133

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Course Correction by Paul W. Gooch Pdf

Course Correction engages in deliberation about what the twenty-first-century university needs to do in order to re-find its focus as a protected place for unfettered commitment to knowledge, not just as a space for creating employment or economic prosperity. The university’s business, Paul W. Gooch writes, is to generate and critique knowledge claims, and to transmit and certify the acquisition of knowledge. In order to achieve this, a university must have a reputation for integrity and trustworthiness, and this, in turn, requires a diligent and respectful level of autonomy from state, religion, and other powerful influences. It also requires embracing the challenges of academic freedom and the effective governance of an academic community. Course Correction raises three important questions about the twenty-first-century university. In discussing the dominant attention to student experience, the book asks, "Is it now all about students?" Secondly, in questioning "What knowledge should undergraduates gain?" it provides a critique of undergraduate experience, advocating a Socratic approach to education as interrogative conversation. Finally, by asking "What and where are well-placed universities?" the book makes the case against placeless education offered in the digital world, in favour of education that takes account of its place in time and space.

Author : Pauline Sameshima,Patricia Maarhuis,Sean Wiebe
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781622735884

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Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design by Pauline Sameshima,Patricia Maarhuis,Sean Wiebe Pdf

'Parallaxic Praxis' is a research framework utilized by interdisciplinary teams to collect, interpret, transmediate, analyze, and mobilize data generatively. The methodology leverages the researchers’ personal strengths and the collective expertise of the team including the participants and community when possible. Benefits include the use of multi-perspective analyses, multi-modal investigations, informal and directed dialogic conversations, innovative knowledge creation, and models of residual and reparative research. Relying on difference, dialogue, and creativity propulsion processes; and drawing on post-qualitative, new materiality, multiliteracies, and combinatorial, even juxtaposing theoretical frames; this model offers extensive research possibilities across disciplines and content areas to mobilize knowledge to broad audiences. This book explains methods, theories, and perspectives, and provides examples for developing creative research design in order to innovate new understandings. This model is especially useful for interdisciplinary partnerships or cross-sector collaborations. This book specifically addresses issues of research design, methodology, knowledge generation, knowledge mobilization, and dissemination for academics, students, and community partners. Examples include possibilities for scholars interested in doing projects in social justice, community engagement, teacher education, Indigenous research, and health and wellness.

Author : Harvey P. Weingarten
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9781487509446

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Nothing Less Than Great by Harvey P. Weingarten Pdf

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada's university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.

Author : Sunera Thobani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Discrimination in higher education
ISBN : 9781487523817

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Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University by Sunera Thobani Pdf

Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. Situating the university at the heart of these momentous developments, this collection debunks the popular claim that the university is well on its way to overcoming its histories of racial exclusion. Written by faculty and students located at various levels within the institutional hierarchy, this book demonstrates how the shadows of settler colonialism and racial division are reiterated in "newer" neoliberal practices. Drawing on critical race and Indigenous theory, the chapters challenge Eurocentric knowledge, institutional whiteness, and structural discrimination that are the bedrock of the institution. The authors also analyse their own experiences to show how Indigenous dispossession, racial violence, administrative prejudice, and imperialist militarization shape classroom interactions within the university.

Author : Murray Goot,Tim Rowse
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0522853420

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Divided Nation? by Murray Goot,Tim Rowse Pdf

An account of Australian public opinion about Aborigines, and the political uses of public opinion research. The authors portray the changes and continuities in Australians' public opinion about indigenous Australians, including their claims for recognition and for social justice.

Author : Yanna Krupnikov,John Barry Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108831123

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The Other Divide by Yanna Krupnikov,John Barry Ryan Pdf

The key to understanding the current wave of American political division is the attention people pay to politics.

Author : Jennifer S. Simpson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442619678

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Longing for Justice by Jennifer S. Simpson Pdf

A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education’s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combines personal narrative with critical analysis to make the case for educational practices that connect to questions of democracy, justice, and the common good. Jennifer S. Simpson begins with three questions. First, what is the nature of the social contract that universities have with public life? Second, how might this social contract shape undergraduate education? And third, how do specific approaches to knowledge and undergraduate education inform how students understand society? In a bold challenge to conventional wisdom about Higher Education, Simpson argues that today’s neoliberal educational norms foreground abstract concepts and leave the complications of real life, especially the intricacies of power, unexamined. Analysing modern teaching techniques, including service learning and civic engagement, Simpson concludes that for Higher Education to serve democracy it must strengthen students’ abilities to critically analyse social issues, recognize and challenge social inequities, and pursue justice.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101492

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf