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Becoming citizens: high school students and citizenship in British Columbia and Québec
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)This article explores how British Columbia and Québec high school students construct and understand their citizenship in light of their history/social studies experience. Two multi-ethnic high schools, one in Montréal and ... -
Building bridges of peace in a Jewish-Palestinian village in Israel: a role model for social justice and citizenship education
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam (the Hebrew and Arabic words for `Oasis of Peace') is a village that began as an intercultural experiment. There, Jews and Palestinians founded a community aimed at demonstrating the possibilities ... -
Learning to teach citizenship: a lifelong learning approach
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2003)Where do civics teachers learn about the content and methods of civics education? What is the impact of these learning experiences on their teaching approaches? Driven by these questions, we undertook a study with civics ... -
Mujer gitana y educación: un camino hacia los derechos humanos
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La educación para la promoción de los derechos humanos de la tercera generación
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)The paper deals with the ways to promote the third generation human rights through education. It underlines the evolutionary dynamism of human rights and the necessity to promote a culture based on their recognition. ... -
Children's rights in an age of information and communication technologies
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)We live in a socio-cultural, informational and technological context that poses new educational challenges for society in general but above all for children. In this paper, we present a proposal that should help to maximise ... -
Crossing the line: homophobic speech and public school teachers
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)The issue of a teacher's expressed homophobic views outside the classroom and how those can be taken to affect his position as a teacher in a public school system has recently come up in the Kempling case. The case raises ... -
Medir progresos en educación en derechos humanos: una experiencia interamericana en marcha
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)Since the year 2000, the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) has been developing a new research methodology on human rights based on a system of progress indicators about three groups of rights: access to ... -
Human rights education: form, content and controversy
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)Human rights education, in North America, is still developing and perhaps only in its adolescence. This is, on the one hand, quite shocking, given the foundational role such rights (supposedly) play in the core societal ... -
La place de l'éducation à la citoyenneté et des droits de la personne dans l'enseignement au Canada et en Ontario
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)The article explores Canadian and Ontarian perspectives on citizenship education and shows how citizenship education contributes to student awareness of the various dimensions of citizenship and the rights of individuals. ... -
Human rights and persons with intellectual disabilities: historical, pedagogical, and philosophical considerations
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2004)Persons with intellectual disabilities are more likely to experience victimization and have their rights infringed upon than are people without such disabilities. While legislative and policy interventions have afforded a ... -
Les communautés d'apprenants en réseau au bénéfice de l'éducation
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)The contribution of information and communication technologies to pedagogical innovation is understood from the cognitive and social perspectives on learning. The notion of networked communities is put forward and three ... -
The design of computer-supported collaborative learning environment in higher education
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)The main goal of this article is to analyze the implications of computer supported collaborative learning in higher education. To achieve this goal, we will describe the situation of the current research in this field and ... -
Educación superior sin barreras: la accesibilidad de las universidades para los estudiantes con discapacidad
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)Higher Education institutions have developed online information services and degrees as an echo of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) incidence in all society fields. Equal access to education is a ... -
Praxis reflexiva en los espacios virtuales de formación
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)Reflective praxis is advocated within the current formative context to the benefit of both the quality of practice and the trainers' own self concept. Action is the main formative tool; it must be understood from its own ... -
Teaching and learning in the knowledge society
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)The education processes within the knowledge society of the twenty-first century involve a complex analysis and transformation of learning and teaching proposals. The ubiquitous penetration of technology and especially of ... -
Guidelines to the edge: integrating information and communication technologies in education
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)Many institutions are in a state of flux in relation to the implementation and use of information communication technology (ICT) by faculty, staff, and students. Earlier research (Stockley 2002) indicates that most ... -
Guidelines to the edge: integrating information and communication technologies in education
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)Many institutions are in a state of flux in relation to the implementation and use of information communication technology (ICT) by faculty, staff, and students. Earlier research (Stockley 2002) indicates that most ... -
Information and communications technology: Plugging Ontario higher education into the knowledge society
(Faculty of Education, Queen's University, 2005)In this article I examine information and communications technology (ICT) in the context of changes to higher education. My analysis uses Ontario as a case study to illustrate that ICT and the knowledge society discourse ... -
I'm still learning: the lived experience of disengagement from school of five young aboriginal women
(2007-08-13)This study sought to understand the lived experience of disengagement from formal schooling of five young Aboriginal women in a mid-Northern community. Using the qualitative methodology of narrative inquiry, and through ...