Canadian Scholars' Press Educators on Diversity, Social Justice, and Schooling: A Reader

About the Author Mary Jane Harkins is a Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she is the Director of Teacher Education, and the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Education Studies.Sonya E. Singer is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University. Product Description In their new critical reader, editors Mary Jane Harkins and Sonya E. Singer argue that `sorting’ ourselves into identity categories results in sexism, racism, heterosexism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and other `isms’. This book’s 19 innovative chapters invite educators, teachers and education students to reflect on schooling practices as a contextualized social process, which requires having and retaining at the forefront of thinking, the intricate inter-weavings of the systemic and cultural impact of race, gender, class, sexuality and ability on the everyday lives of students.