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Community-Based Ocean Literacy: Four Examples of Ocean Optimism from Mi'kma'ki/Atlantic Canada
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Ostertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Endangered Threads: Socially Committed Community Art Action
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Timm-Bottos, Janis – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2011
This article describes a 9-month community action project that took the form of an art studio located in a thrift store. The purpose of the project was to creatively reduce clothing fabric waste from unused donations, and also to document the social justice and ecological issues involved in clothing production and distribution. Collaboration with…
Descriptors: Social Action, Art Therapy, Clothing, Retailing
Learning Circles: One Form of Knowledge Production in Social Action Research
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Ravensbergen, Frances; Vanderplaat, Madine – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
This paper explores the use of "learning circles" as one form of knowledge production in social action research. It reports on a project that used learning circles as a setting within which to increase the engagement of people living with low income in developing strategies for the reduction and elimination of poverty in Canada. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Action Research, Social Action
Researching Doctoral Pedagogy Close up: Design and Action in Two Doctoral Programmes
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Danby, Susan; Lee, Alison – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
With growing international interest in diversifying sites for pedagogical work within the doctorate, doctoral programmes of different kinds are being developed in different disciplinary, institutional and national settings. However, little is known about how the pedagogical work of these programmes is designed and enacted, and with what effects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Action, Doctoral Programs
Canadian Anti-Poverty Programmes--A Dimensional View
Card, B. Y.; And Others – Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 1973
Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Demography, Ecological Factors, Environmental Influences
Child Poverty, Campaign 2000, and Child Welfare Practice: Working to End Poverty in Canada.
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Hughes, Colin – Child Welfare, 1995
Discusses child poverty and child welfare practice in Canada. Focuses on the goals and activities of Campaign 2000, a pan-Canadian movement intended to secure implementation of the 1989 House of Commons resolution to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. (MDM)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children, Federal Legislation
Toward a New Vision for Child Welfare in Canada.
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Wharf, Brian – Child Welfare, 1995
Identifies the major themes that have emerged in this special issue on child welfare in Canada, and presents a critique of the policies and practices now dominating the Canadian child welfare enterprise. Outlines the changes required to move child welfare from its residual stance into an enterprise that develops a capacity for innovative practice.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Social Inventions: Saskatchewan NewStart.
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Conger, D. Stuart – 1974
Social invention is defined as any law, organization, or procedure that changes the ways in which people relate to each other, either individually or collectively. The author discusses the dynamics of social invention and proposes specific social policy changes needed in Canada in such areas as mental health, educational outreach programs, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies