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Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings. Using an anti-colonial lens, alternative conceptualizations and practices of justice are explored.

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Principles of Blended Learning

In this volume, the authors further explore and refine the blended learning principles presented in their first book, Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, with an added focus on designing, facilitating, and directing collaborative blended learning environments by emphasizing the concept of shared metacognition.

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Not Hockey

How does “sport” differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point do sports become art? Not Hockey skillfully investigates how literature presents sports as a metaphor, a language, and a bodily expression.

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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

How to Read Like You Mean It

Kyle Conway

Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins

Imperfection

Patrick Grant

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International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women’s rights movement. The holiday brings much-needed attention to issues such as…

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