OISE book display – Women’s rights, human rights, and global issues

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Wendy Traas

A new display entitled Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Global Issues features works on the issue of human rights and women’s rights in the developing world. All of the included books come from OISE’s Women’s Education Resources Collection (WERC). Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Global Issues coincides with the closing of the Women’s Human Rights Educational Institute, a five-week course held at OISE on peace, human rights, and development from a feminist and activist perspective.

The display includes works from a variety of perspectives on a number of topics, including sexuality, religion, and reproductive health. Examples include Development with a body: Sexuality, human rights and development by Cornwall, Correa, and Jolly, and Unspoken rules: Sexual orientation and women’s human rights by Rosenbloom. Some of the titles use a broad economic or social analysis to address the relationship between gender and democracy, such as Developing power: How women transformed international development by Fraser and Tinker.

A range of geographical viewpoints are represented in the display’s collection. Included are Critical chatter: Women and human rights in South East Asia by Lambert, Pickering, and Alder, and Gender and human rights politics in Japan: Global norms and domestic networks by Chan-Tiberghien. A number of titles address Islam and the Middle East, such as Crossing the red line: the struggle for human rights in Iran by Kar, and Between feminism and Islam: Human rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Salime.

First-hand accounts of the struggle for women’s rights are included in the form of biographies and oral histories. For example, see The granddaughters of Ixmucan?: Guatemalan women speak, as told to Smith-Ayala, and Ernestine L. Rose, women’s rights pioneer, by Suhl.

Everything in the display case is available to borrow. Please see the circulation desk on the main floor for assistance.

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Featured Activity Kit: Rosetta Stone

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Ryan Thomas Johnston

The Rosetta Stone kit [CR 493.1 R829] is a detailed 1/3 scale replica of the original artifact currently held in the British Museum. An ancient Egyptian stele from 196 BCE, the decree inscribed on it appears in three different scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion in Demotic script, and the lowest in Ancient Greek. It presents essentially the same text in all three scripts and provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Using the included activity sheets, students can simultaneously learn about ancient history, ancient geography, as well as the development and evolution of language and writing by completing the worksheet exercises. By the end of the activity, students will be able to write their names in hieroglyphics. This kit can also be used as an excellent supplement to field trips or museum visits dealing with the ancient world.

Currently displayed on the coffee table near the Circulation Desk on the Ground Floor of the Library.

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OISE book display – LGBT Inclusive Education

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Nicholas Worby

In celebration of Pride Week this month, the OISE Library is featuring a selection of materials on LGBT inclusive education. Help address homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and bullying in your classroom with this collection of teacher resources, juvenile fiction, and scholarly books. Material in the book display cabinet on the ground floor explore sexual orientation and sexual expression-based discrimination at school. Many of the selected titles seek to provide guidelines for educators wishing to build safe, inclusive classroom environments.

A handful of titles also discuss the administrative challenges of implementing LGBT inclusive policies. Works like Macgillivray (2004) and Vaccaro, August, and Kennedy (2012) explain some of the major issues and strategies involved in creating LGBT inclusive school policies in reluctant school communities.

Resources like Webber (2010) provide an entry point for teachers looking for LGBT and questioning materials for their classroom. This helpful resource describes more than 300 award winning works of fiction, drama, poetry, graphic novels and films.

Everything in the book display cabinet can be borrowed. Please inquire at the service desk on the ground floor.

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Featured Activity Kit: The Impressionist: Art Game

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Sarah Ann Gauthier
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The Impressionist: Art Game

This week’s featured activity kit, The Impressionist: Art Game (CR 759.05 i34) is a great art trivia game. The game is centered on impressionist painters such as Monet and Renoir, with an accompanying book that details 32 different painting from this period. Players have two game options based on classic games of strategy and memory. Go Fish for Art requires players to acquire a set of paintings by the same artist. This game is played in the same manner as the traditional card game Go Fish. The cards can also be used for the game Masterpiece Memory, which is played in the same fashion as the game Concentration.  This game and book will leave players with many new art facts such as: “Edgar Degas is most famous for his many works of ballet paintings”, or “Claude Monet would create beautiful paintings to take his mind off his family’s financial problems”.

The kit is currently displayed on the small table near the Service Desk on the ground floor of the library. Check it out today!

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New Books on International Education

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Ryan Thomas Johnston

Stop by the OISE library and check out these new additions to our collection!

– Exceptionality in East Asia: Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness [371.9509 E96]: The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realized that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving. Using the actiotope model of giftedness to integrate a broad range of research, this innovative book features a number of chapters written by internationally recognised scholars in a frank and lively discussion about the origins of exceptionality in students from East Asia. With the actiotope model as the theoretical framework, the book distinguishes between trait models of giftedness and systems approaches to exceptionality.

– Islamic Learning, the State and the Challenges of Education in Ghana [371.07709667 S519i]: This study examines Islamic learning in Ghana over the 20th century. Informed and comprehensive, Islamic Learning, the State and the Challenges of Education in Ghana analyzes governmental attempts to introduce secular education through Islamic schools in a country where Muslims are a religious minority. The policy to bring such schools under the Ghana Education Service (GES) and standardized national examinations threatened the autonomy and proprietorship of the mallams (religious leaders) who had provided private Islamic tuition for generations. Islamic learning provides comprehensive discussions about the implementation of the secularization program in a historical context dating back to the colonial period but extending forward to the present.

– International Students and Scholars in the United States: Coming from Abroad [378.1982 I61]: Written by an international team of academics and experienced practitioners, this volume brings together scholarship on international academic migrants to the United States – the world’s top recipient of academic talent. Topics considered include migration patterns, adaptation challenges, and the role that international students and faculty play in broader internationalization and diversity agendas within US higher education. Past understandings of “brain drain” are insufficient to understand the transnational and often multi-directional flows of academic migrants today. Instead, a more nuanced understanding of their migration patterns and decision-making is essential if the opportunities presented by these cross-border flows are to be realized.

These and other new books are all available on the New Acquisitions shelf on the ground floor of the library.

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