Using First Nations Children's Literature in the Classroom: Portfolio of Learning

A portfolio was developed to encourage teachers of Aboriginal children to include First Nations mentor texts into their daily teaching practices. The artifacts within the portfolio have been produced in accordance with guiding beliefs about how students, specifically First Nations students, learn. The portfolio supports the notion that Aboriginal children need to encounter representations of their own culture, histories and beliefs within the literature in order to be successful in school. The use of First Nations children’s literature in the classroom was explored with an emphasis on how using this literature will assist in improving literacy levels and the self-esteem of First Nations students.

"They're trying to trick us!": Making sense of anti-oppressive children's literature in the elementary school classroom

This study examines how children make sense of “anti-oppressive” children’s literature in the classroom, specifically, books that integrate and promote positive portrayals of gender non-conformity and sexual diversity. Through a feminist poststructural lens, I conducted ethnographic observations and reading groups with twenty students in a grade one/two classroom to explore how children engage with these storybooks. I further explored how the use of these books in the classroom might help to mediate and negotiate existing gendered and heteronormative beliefs and practices within educational settings. The books used in this study challenge oppressive gender and sexuality regimes within mainstream children’s literature that have traditionally served to marginalize and silence gender non-conforming and LGBTQ individuals. Responses from participants in this study aid in questioning how dominant discourses of gender and sexuality are produced and reinforced, as well as where we may find opportunities for change and reform within the elementary school classroom.

ESL Collections, University Libraries, and Internationalization

This research study examines the content, types of materials, locations, and library collection development policies concerning ESL (English as a second language) materials collections on university campuses in the United States and Canada. ESL learning materials are defined in this study as those materials supporting adult learners who are non-native speakers of English in a higher education setting. The purpose of this study is to describe the content and types of materials in these collections, to learn where these collections are typically housed on university campuses, to discover what collection development policies may inform the building of these collections, and to explore the potential significance of these collections for university libraries. The overriding question that informs this study is the following: Can involvement with ESL collections serve as a way for university libraries to participate in internationalization by supporting the language needs of international students?

Chamber's Historical Questions with Answers

The book is hardcover and inscribed with an illegible signature, dated 1880 and below that is the signature Margaret J. Woodruff. The preface of the book begins, "The present work is designed to fulfil an important purpose in Education - that of bringing clearly into view the leading facts which are supposed to be gained through a long course of instruction. Without proposing to supersede the elementary books usually employed, it offers a certain test of what is presumed to have been previously learned. With such a work in their hands, Schoolmasters, Tutors, Governesses, or Parents, may at once satisfy themselves as to the degree of knowledge on a variety of subjects attained by the young person under their charge, and for whose intellectual culture they feel a special interest." The full text is available in the Brock University Special Collections and Archives.

History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor

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Face to face with the mexicans : the domestic life, educational, social, and bussines ways statesmanship and literature, legendary and general history of the mexicana people.

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Graded literature readers

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Foundation studies in literature

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Myths of greece and Rome : narrated with special reference to literature and art

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Geological collections : dynamical geology and petrography

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La gestion du savoir à l’ère du numérique : Les politiques de choix, de développement et de gestion de collections

Présenté au 36e congrès de la Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec (CBPQ).

Collections particulières et collectionneurs à Montréal au XIXe siècle : le cas de Louis-François Georges Baby.

Cette communication s'appuie sur des recherches réalisées dans le cadre de notre projet de thèse portant sur les collections particulières et les collectionneurs montréalais au XIXe siècle. Plus précisément, nous tentons de cerner l'identité sociale et l'habitus culturel de ces derniers. Un des principaux objectifs de notre recherche consiste à cibler et à comprendre les motivations des collectionneurs. L'histoire du collectionnement révèle cinq catégories générales de motivations : la collection comme porteur de sens par rapport à soi ou par rapport aux autres, collectionner par volonté de conserver le patrimoine et par souci de garder les traces du passé, collectionner en tant qu'investissement financier ou encore pour répondre à un besoin compulsif. Nous tenterons ici de déterminer quelles ont été les motivations de Louis-François-Georges Baby. Juge et homme politique, Baby fut un collectionneur passionné d'histoire et amateur d'art. Sa collection, d'une ampleur considérable, comprenait des documents historiques, des livres, des tableaux, des gravures, des plans, des monnaies, des médailles ainsi que des objets ethnographiques. Elle fut léguée, selon ses dernières volontés, au Collège de Joliette, à la Société d'archéologie et de numismatique de Montréal qu'il présida de 1884 à son décès ainsi qu'à l'Université Laval à Montréal qui hérita de plus de 20 000 documents d'archives et de 3 400 livres rares, estampes et autres documents.

Excelsior, compendium of literature and elocution

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Stepping Stones to literature

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Le paradis perdu suivi de essai sur la literature anglaise

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