Category Archives: Library Resources

Earth Day 2023 – OISE Seed Library

Posted on April 22, 2023 by Nicole Slattery

Happy Earth Day 2023 from the OISE Library! This Earth Day, we bring attention to the importance of promoting sustainability, biodiversity, climate action, and justice through gardening, growing, and seed saving. We have recently refilled the OISE Library’s Seed Library … Continue reading →

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Teaching Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Classroom

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Nicole Slattery

Education plays a crucial role in how we help students understand the complexity of local and global environmental challenges, and build capacity for individual and collective climate action. Teacher candidates are well-positioned to make positive contributions to the lives of … Continue reading →

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Asian Heritage Month

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Corrina Taccone

The Government of Canada officially declared May as Asian Heritage Month exactly 20 years ago in 2002. This was following the appointment of Senator Vivienne Poy in Canada who proposed a motion to acknowledge Asian Heritage in Canada, something the … Continue reading →

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Earth Day 2022 – The Role of Higher Education

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Corrina Taccone

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) community is dedicated (in it’s role as a leading faculty of education) to addressing the climate crisis and furthering sustainability and climate action in the education context. Over the past year, OISE … Continue reading →

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Raising and Teaching Anti-Racist Kids

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Nailisa

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Regis Korchinski-Paquet have brought much-needed attention to the racist policies and systems that harm Black people in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Many parents and educators are … Continue reading →

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