Travelling more than 9,000 kilometres by car across Turtle Island, Faculty of Education professor Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, spent part of his academic leave gathering stories, acting, and reflecting on what it means to be a good guest on this land in relation to its First Peoples …
Shaping My Teaching for Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities
What does it mean when I say inclusive education? This is a fully loaded term, one that policy makers, teachers, administrators, parents and educators still have not fully figured out...
Free Speech Does Not Mean Speech Without Consequences
A few months ago, as I was driving and listening to the radio, CBC Radio reported a story of University of New Brunswick professor, Ricardo Duchesne, being accused of hate...
Digital citizenship and inequality: From classroom to workforce
My keen interest to keep abreast of debates concerning citizenship has exposed me to the concept of digital citizenship, and of course, to the question of equity. I was taken...
Books as Windows, Books as Mirrors: Curating Inclusive Classroom Libraries
Children’s literature has become relevant in a wide variety of subject areas outside of Language Arts; it is especially useful in social justice and multicultural education. Having worked as a...
Equitable Hiring Practices: It Is About WHO We Hire as Much as HOW We Hire
Sign we left on the door of the office as candidates arrived for their interview It has been four years since I have had the privilege to hire staff to...