Education Studies

From “My Child” to “Our Children” – Fostering Positive Family Advocacy as a Path to Educational Equity

A conversation between Liz Dempsey Lee, author of Parents as Advocates: Supporting K-12 Students and their Families Across Identities and Janise Hurtig, Lived Places Publishing Collection Editor. Liz and Janise discuss how recognizing and addressing family advocacy is critical to creating educational equity. They also explore how conflict is a normal and expected byproduct of the family-school relationship and how demystifying and educating families around effective advocacy can build relationships and move educational communities from a focus on “my child” to a focus on “our children.”

 
A red-washed background of masked children in a classroom, with the classroom door superimposed over it. The classroom door has hand-coloured children’s artwork decorating it, which reads “Amazing things happen here!”.

Ending Educational Inequities

The COVID-19 pandemic reproduced forms of educational exclusions by reiterating a “grammar of schooling”, yet it also offered an opportunity for teaching professionals to use their creativity and brilliance to rewrite it. Pushing back on educational inequities, these stories offer hope of more just and inclusive classrooms now and in the future.  

 
The community garden founded by Jaime Hoerrick's class

The Autistic Way of Proceeding

by Jaime Hoerricks // Parents and medical professionals often look upon autistic behaviour as problematic, and sometimes harmful. They see “treatment” as a way to change the behaviour, measured externally by someone other than the autistic person. Jaime Hoerricks offers a different perspective, from personal and professional lived experience.  

 

In Search of Education’s Hidden Protagonists

Dr. Janise Hurtig lays out her vision for a new collection of the rich stories, vignettes, and accounts drawn from the experiences of those individuals (and groups) who are the protagonists of the educational practices of today and the future.

 
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