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Bruce Maxwell – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
This article first describes and then proposes a practical solution to the professional dilemma between the duty of impartiality and the duty of human rights advocacy that many teachers experience when teaching and talking about politically sensitive issues with students. The article begins by presenting an analysis of the source and signification…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Political Attitudes
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Maxwell, Bruce; Hirsch, Sivane – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2020
Taking Quebec's mandatory religious education curriculum, Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), as a case study, this paper examines the question of whether it is legitimate to teach about the illiberal and discriminatory aspects of religious belief and practice--misogyny, homophobia, racial discrimination and the like--in a religious education…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Religious Education, Ethics, Foreign Countries
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Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
This article is a response to Kassam, Avery, and Ruelle's insights as presented in this forum on rural science education. Topics considered include troubling the urban/rural divide in the context of Indigenous knowledge and expanding to include the common Canadian notion of the "remote," a designation rooted in our national colonial…
Descriptors: Activism, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, American Indians
McIntire, Deborah; Windham, Robert – 1995
This resource for parents draws upon research findings and the experience of home schooling parents to answer common questions about home schooling in the United States and Canada. Included is information on home schooling instructional approaches and curricula, record keeping, organizational tools, and practical tips. Chapter 1, "Initial…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Foreign Countries