Resources

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCES
Books:
Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, by Marianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Pat Griffin

Articles:
“3 Pillars of White Supremacy and Heteropatriarchy,” by Andrea Smith.
“Cripping Queer Politics,” by Robert McRuer
“Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism”- Himani Bannerji
“Looking White People in The Eye”- Sherene Razak
“Transgender Warriors”- Leslie Feinburg

Blogs/Magazine Articles:
Color Lines http://colorlines.com
Feministing http://feministing.com
Black Girl Dangerous http://www.blackgirldangerous.org
Misadventures of a queer student teacher http://www.queerstudentteacher.com
Teaching Social Justice (ETFO Voice) https://content.yudu.com/web/1q1ji/0A1z2y9/fall2017/html/index.html?page=16&origin=reader

Tools:

Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources https://www.tolerance.org/topics
White Privilege http://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/this-comic-perfectly-explains-what-white-privilege-is
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy
https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/white-antiracism-living-the-legacy
Righting Relations National Hub (Advocacy, Decolonization. Facilitation, Life Affirming, Popular Ed., Traditional Teaching)
http://catherinedonnellyfoundation.org/national/resources/
Science of Oppression http://choptensils.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/science-of-oppression-i-a-basic-understanding-of-variables/
The Danger of the single story http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html
The Barefoot Guide: Resources for Teaching Social Change http://www.barefootguide.org/

POPULAR EDUCATION RESOURCES 
Books:
“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Friere  *note you can download this book online for free

Popular Education Centers:
Teaching for Change – Washington, DC
The Highlander Center – Knoxville, TN
Paulo Freire Institute (PFI) – Los Angeles, CA
The Praxis Project – Washington, DC
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
Popular Education News

Popular Education Resource Library:

http://www.catalystcentre.ca/resource-library/complete-catalogue/

INDIGENOUS EDUCATION Resources *
Activities On Indigenous history:

http://spiritoftheland.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Blanket-Exercise.pdf
http://www.kairoscanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DR-IR-BlanketExerciseScrolls Grades4-8.pdf
Database:  http://transformingrelations.wordpress.com/category/education/page/6
https://native-land.ca/teachers-guide/

Curriculum Resources:
https://www.d.umn.edu/~bmunson/Courses/Educ5560/readings/Aikenhead97-NOS.pdf  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328710001837 http://torontozoo.com/pdfs/tic/Stewardship_Guide.pdf (REALLY AWESOME curriculum resource)
http://www.torontozoo.com/conservation/tic.asp

Truth and Reconciliation/ Decolonization:
http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
http://www.indianhorse.ca/en/education/resources-for-download
Decolonization: http://www.fistinthemouth.com/colonization-and-de-colonization-by-zig-zag/
DecolonizED https://www.decolonize-ed.com/for-teachers

Residential Schools:
http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/
Secret Path https://www.downiewenjack.ca/learning/secret-path-learning-resources
Orange Shirt Day: http://www.orangeshirtday.org/resources–ideas.html

Info re: Indigenous students and culturally relevant mathematics
www.fnesc.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Aug-12-2011-MFP-8-+-9-web.pdf
http://www.banffcentre.org/blog/2012/12/10/dedicated-group-developing-new-resources-for-first-nations-mathematics/

Educational Resources:
http://www.equitas.org/what-we-do/human-rights-defenders-and-educators/ihrtp/resources/
http://www.amnesty.org/en/human-rights-education/resources http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/teacher-support

Human Rights Websites:
http://www.equitas.org/en
http://www.hrusa.org

Accessible Education
Council of Ontario Universities (2012). Introduction to Accessible Education. Website: http://www.uwo.ca/tsc/resources/pdf/COU%20AODA%20Guide.pdf

Ontario Human Rights Commission (2009). Guidelines on Accessible Education. Website: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/guidelines-accessible-education

Persons with Disabilities
Abilities Magazine: www.abilities.ca
Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work: www.ccrw.org
Citizens with Disabilities- Ontario: http://www.cwdo.org/
Coalition for Persons with Disabilities: www.disabilityaccess.org
National Educational Association of Disabled Students: www.neads.ca/en/
Mental Health in the Classroom
Ontario Ministry of Education (2013). Support minds: An educator’s guide to supporting students’ mental health and well-being. http://www.edu.gov.ca/eng/document/reports/SupportingMinds.pdf

Books:
Exploring the lived experiences of persons with disabilities
Blindsided: Lifting a life above illness: A reluctant memoir
If I played my life: Poems by people with Schizophrenia
What time is the 9:20 bus?
An unquiet mind: Memoirs of Moods and Madness. Free Download: http://ebookee.org/An-Unqiet-Mind-A-Memoir-of-Moods-and-Madness_1326101.html
Reflections from a different Journey: What adults with disabilities want all parents to know.
Born on a blue day: The gift of an extraordinary mind.

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