Education

School Counselling in Canada

School Counselling in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide is a collaborative text that explores the evolving and multi-faceted role of school counsellors at the intersection of education, mental health, and advocacy. Unlike general counselling resources, this book focuses on the specific challenges and responsibilities of school counsellors within Canadian contexts. School counsellors are not only advocates, confidants, and guides—they are also clinicians, educators, collaborators, and leaders who are instrumental in creating supportive and inclusive educational and counselling environments that promote student wellbeing and success. This book blends scholarly research, lived experience, and practitioner wisdom to examine the evolving profession, ethical considerations, and the diverse and complex realities of school counselling across Canada. Using a collaborative co-author model, featuring school counsellors, practitioners, educators, and members of the Indigenous community, from various provinces, the chapters unpack specialized school counselling knowledge that will serve both future practitioners and their students in reaching their full potential. Designed for current and future school counsellors, as well as educators, administrators, and the education community as a whole, this guide offers the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of school counselling and better support student wellbeing, equity, and meaningful change. Its comprehensive and collaborative approach to school counselling makes this resource suitable for Education and School Counselling programs at Canadian Universities. Features:
  • This text offers an in-depth look at various aspects of school counselling, while incorporating multicultural, decolonial, Indigenizing, trauma-informed, and relational lenses that can enrich understanding and practice
  • Robust pedagogical features include a glossary and discussion / reflective questions

Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada

Moving students’ learning from the traditional indoor classroom to outdoor spaces has proven benefits. It expands student engagement and uptake, promotes mental and physical health, and strengthens students’ awareness of Indigenous ways of knowing as well as environmental issues. Outdoor Experiential Learning in Canada takes pre- and in-service teachers and outdoor professionals on a journey that elevates their experience and effectiveness when teaching any curriculum content in an outdoor classroom. With its focus on curriculum and instruction, this book focuses on ‘where’ students learn, emphasizing the use of outdoor spaces to teach. This book illustrates the many benefits of outdoor learning and how to be successful when educators teach students outside. The voices and perspectives of professional educators and practitioners from across Canada give readers a broad overview of outdoor learning from a variety of viewpoints, including Indigenous voices that ground the topic and provide a basis for connecting to the earth. This book is intended to inspire teachers, pre-service teachers, outdoor professionals, and outdoor enthusiasts to take their students and clients outside to learn, connect, and grow. Features:
  • A research-informed and practice-based guide to outdoor learning that explores how teaching beyond the classroom can support student engagement, well-being, and meaningful connection to the land
  • Pedagogical features include key terms, discussion questions, activities and assignments, recommended readings, and additional resources
  • Instructor resources include an instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and a test bank

Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education

Disrupting Developmentalism in Canadian Early Years Education challenges dominant discourses about children and childhood by centring marginalized and subjugated voices, experiences, and knowledges. Confronting systemic white supremacy, cis-heteronormativity, ableism, and sanism rooted in developmental psychology, the authors invite educators to imagine new possibilities for understanding children, childhood, and education. The collection explores critical activist knowledges for disrupting developmentalism through contributions from teachers, practitioners, and educators, including narratives and lived experiences. This text will be an invaluable resource for early childhood education, teacher education, and child and youth studies programs in Canadian colleges and universities with courses focusing on child development, equity, diversity, inclusion, critical perspectives, and/or contemporary issues in early childhood education. Features
  • Critiques of the dominance of developmental psychology, specifically developmentalism, that reigns in post-secondary early years and elementary teacher education programs
  • Diverse perspectives from educators, practitioners, community advocates, and activists from across the country
  • Robust pedagogical features including chapter overviews, end-of-chapter glossaries of key terms, and critical thinking questions

Early Years Education and Care in Canada, Second Edition

Timely and thoroughly updated, the second edition of Early Years Education and Care in Canada explores the histories, philosophies, theories, and approaches that have shaped the ways that we teach and care for children in Canada. Featuring multiple voices and first-hand experiences in the field, contributions from Canadian academics and practitioners engage in theoretical and practical discussions on early childhood education and care. The new edition of this volume continues to provide readers with a map of the theoretical landscape of early years practice and research and explores newly added topics including common worlds pedagogies, reclaiming Indigenous family systems, supporting Black flourishing in early childhood education and care, critical feminist examination of play, and lived experiences of registered early childhood educators and the Early Childhood Education and Care system. Readers will explore where we have been, where we are, and where we might go in practice and research related to children and families, making this a fundamental resource for all students, practitioners, and policymakers in early childhood education and care. FEATURES
  • Expands on the first edition’s extensive and balanced examination of the historical and philosophical influences of early childhood education and care
  • Includes new chapters on timely topics such as Black childhoods, gender and sexuality, and the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan
  • Pedagogically rich, this text features chapter overviews, lists of key terms, and start-of-chapter guiding questions

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