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In this article, we share our experiences working with students to read and/or write visual essays, texts that rely more heavily on images with minimal print text. We explore how students consider elements of design as they create a visual essay, which en

As society must very soon adopt more ecological ways of living, this article argues that a primary duty of all citizens should be to envision better ways of living. However, the way we tend to reason remains an obstacle to change. This is because most of

This essay uses Jessica Benjamin's concept of intersubjectivity to consider a third space in the classroom, outside the teacher-centered or student-centered polarity. The intersubjective third space is characterized by the interplay of inner fantasy and r

Engaging the term rhetoricity, which refers both to Cultural Literacy as text and cultural literacy as concept, Cook claims that the most productive pedagogical component of Hirsch's proposal-the sophisticated rhetorical sensibility on which the entire co

In contrast to the plethora of studies published in recent years in The Canadian Modern Language Review and other journals on the teaching and learning of French and English as additional languages in Canada and the teaching of academic content through th

In a bilingual or multilingual society, certain sectors may be regarded as disloyal should they speak the language of state enemies or be associated in one way or another with neighboring hostile countries. Within this framework, the present article analy

According to Kevin Kumashiro (2004), education toward a socially just society requires a commitment to challenge common sense notions or assumptions about the world and about teaching and learning. Recalling Audre Lorde's (1984) classic essay, "The Master

In January, 2009 educators and other stakeholders had an opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed draft revisions of a number of courses in the Social Sciences and Humanities Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12. We are now soliciting feedback from educators

In this article, we present an analysis of some of the voices we heard as we conducted linguistic ethnographic research in eight complementary (also known as 'community language', 'supplementary', 'heritage language') schools in four British cities. These

First Nations women were more likely to have college and university credentials than First Nations men in both 2001 and 2006, whereas a higher percentage of First Nations men had trades credentials. In addition, compared to women in the overall Canadian p

This is a critical dialogue between graduate student and activists in the discipline of sociology. Critical approaches to the essential question of critical race studies are discussed and evaluated in terms of their ability to develop a theory and praxis

'Insistence on bilingualism in early years of education policy was wrong: MM Lee', on 17 Nov 2009. In it, MM Lee said: Successive generations of students paid a heavy price, because of my ignorance, by my insistence on bilingualism. And I wasn't helped b

While most U.S. public schools are responding to new high-stakes testing requirements by teaching more math and English to the neglect of social studies and civics, a very small minority of schools are pushing forward a different agenda.

The increasing number of higher degree research students from China in the universities of multicultural Australia as elsewhere has added to the mounting interest in pedagogies of postgraduate supervision. This paper explores the proposition that efforts

A growing transnational migration trend among (South) Korean families brings heterogeneity to the Korean-American communities in the US in terms of educational practices and identity. Based on interviews with Korean mothers, this study discusses how two g

The professional identity of language teachers has gained prominence in research on language instruction in the last decade. This article adds to work by critically exploring how teacher education programs allow non-native English-speaking teachers (NNEST

"Centers and Peripheries" introduces the two goals of Pedagogy's special issue: to investigate what might be possible in the small college department as well as to suggest how these possibilities might inspire comparable intellectual work in other profess

Dehumanizing tendencies within the present neo-liberal era provide the backdrop against which the authors have developed an 11-year partnership in the Global South. The economic context encourages competition over community and, while portending to bring

Late last year Dr Robyn Gregson, Dr Susanne Gannon and Secondary Head of Program Allan Morton spent time at two extraordinary schools in northern England that are reimagining the future of secondary schooling. Both Cramlington Community High School, in No

This article is about the nature of democracy in environmental politics, with special reference to the issue of representation, and to the issues of speaking and listening. It is argued that politics has always been regarded as concerned with 'speechifyin