E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin

By Ruth DyckFehderau
With James Bay Cree Storytellers
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Education, Indigenous Studies

In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada’s Indian Residential School cultural genocide.
Through intimate personal ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography

Edited by Aïda Hudson
Subjects: Geography, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature, Social Science, Child Studies

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By J.C. Blokhuis, Katherine Covell, and R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

Growing Up in Armyville

By Deborah Harrison & Patrizia Albanese
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district ...

Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls

By Doris M. Kieser
Subjects: Religion, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent ...

Living Recovery

By Dr. JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey
Subjects: Psychology, Social Science, Child Studies

Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Child Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...

Hearing Voices

Edited by H. Bruce Ferguson & Katherine M. Boydell
Subjects: Psychology, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: SickKids Community and Mental Health

Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper ...