Instructional and educational works
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Instructors across higher education require inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equitable and trusting online learning communities. This edited volume examines the experiences that interdisciplinary and global feminist educators have had-both their successes and their challenges-in infusing feminist pedagogical tenets into their online teaching and learning practices.
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Athabasca University Press
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An invaluable resource for educators looking to actively participate in reshaping education to include historically silenced voices in the classroom. Re-Storying Education is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have created this place known as Canada today. This vital and timely book outlines how colonialism has shaped both the country and the public school system. Re-Storying Education uses an Indigenous lens—offering ways to put Indigenous education, history, and pedagogy into practice.
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A step-by-step guide to developing superior tracking teams. For over 35 years, Clifford Samon has trained working dogs, including police and search-and-rescue K9s. In Training Working Dogs to Track, he shares his proven five-level approach to tracking, used daily in his work with the Ontario Provincial Police. This systematic method builds drive and gradually develops skills, progressing from rural to urban environments. Designed to enhance both the dog's ability and the handler's expertise, it ensures peak performance without shortcuts.
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Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices, and anyone in any field can break in. So why not you? Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, The New School, and Harvard University. Now in The Byline Bible, she reveals the wildly popular "Instant Gratification Takes Too Long" technique she's perfected, sharing how to land impressive clips to start or re-launch your career.
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Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century's greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice, memory, and language.
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Random House Publishing Group
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Canadian classrooms are a microcosm of Canada's diverse society, and educational assistants play a vital role in helping all students feel valued, capable, and included. "The Educational Assistant's Guide to Supporting Inclusion in a Diverse Society" uses case studies and examples to present an accessible, practical guide to acquiring the key skills and knowledge you need to be an effective, professional enhancement to the classroom.
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This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the "how-to") with a focus on the practical application of the most recent HRM research and best practices. Students will learn to understand, anticipate, and respond to how power, profit, and intersectionality shape the practice of HRM.
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Athabasca University Press
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The primary purpose of this book is to offer psychology graduate students and practitioners a glimpse of the ethical and cultural intricacies that influence the everyday practice of psychology in Canada. Through the sharing of lived experiences, and using the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists as the foundation for each chapter, reflections and bits of wisdom are offered about being ethical when working with specific populations and within specific environments.
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University of Calgary Press
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This book that takes the reader from knowing zero about magic to being able to do a whole show for their family and friends. Along the way they will learn some cool tricks to show their friends in school, find out how to do a PR stunt, film their own tricks, develop their unique magician persona, and all the other secrets to making magic amazing. The reader will be offered an array of trick options, from openers to finales, from which to build their own tailored show, depending on their favourite style of magic and stage of learning.
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Written by Anishinaabe educator Christine M'Lot with psychologist Dr. Karlee Fellner, the Teacher Guide for In Search of April Raintree and April Raintree helps teachers create dynamic learning experiences for their students in grades 11 and 12, while maintaining a respectful and dignified approach to Indigenous topics.