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Continue reading →: Structural racism: What it isn’t, what it is, and its assessment in public healthcareThe rationale for this article is derived from the context of a 2020 Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) report into the racialization of inequitable health care outcomes: “In recent years, racism has been increasingly recognized as an important driver of inequitable health outcomes for racialized Canadians… Anti-Black racism is…
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Continue reading →: The CDSBEO and a token EDI policyWhat am I doing here? It’s been a while since I last posted on any of blogs, my apologies to any of you that follow me, let me try and redress that now. This post began as a critical stance essay for one of my PhD courses, and was supposed…
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Continue reading →: Is there any such thing as race? The musings of a 50-something Caucasian science educatorRace—What are we Talking About? Arguably, race and our preconceived notions of what that term means, and implies for sectors of any given society, are as hotly contested now as ever they were. Certainly, the ignorant and bigoted discuss race as if they were confident of its meaning. Andrew Anglin,…
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Continue reading →: For My Daughter… and Every Other Woman Giving Up Hope Today Curriculum is—Still—Politics Today, my twenty-something daughter stood in our kitchen, furious, crying, hurt and hopeless. This is the grown woman from whom—it seems to me—that only a few short weeks ago, I could wipe away those tears, take her back to…
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Continue reading →: The Ignorant Hypocrisy of the Catholic Church on Homosexuality in an Elementary CurriculumOn the 19th October (2016), I wrote about my reaction to the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO)-sponsored family life education program, called Fully Alive (http://acbo.on.ca/fully-alive/). The ACBO web site describes Fully Alive as: … intended to pass on a distinctively Catholic view of human life, sexuality, marriage, and…
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Continue reading →: ACBO and a Sex Ed’ Curriculum We Should All Be Worried AboutOn Monday October 17th 2016, my daughter arrived home from her day at an elementary school, which is part of the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario (CDSBEO), Canada. She handed me a letter based on the Fully Alive program of sexual education, espoused by the Assembly of Catholic…
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Continue reading →: The Plural of “Anecdote” is not “Evidence”John Creswell is a well-known academic researcher, much published and easy to read (well, easier than many anyway). He keeps a blog on his web page (http://johnwcreswell.com), but although he may be a much more respected, experienced and published author and researcher than the guy writing this (not much of…
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Continue reading →: Knowledge and BeliefAt last I have submitted an article that I’ve been working on for quite a while to a suitable journal. Great, only not so, because I’ve just noticed that the author guidelines stipulate 25 pages or less including references and for some reason I read that as excluding references, and…
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Continue reading →: Teachers: A Class with Your Name On ItThis isn’t strictly a post about curriculum, or about creative academic writing. But it is about teaching, in a way; and about that curious state of being in loco parentis, so I make no apologies for posting this here. In the early 2000s I re-trained to become a teacher. During…
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Continue reading →: Scholarly Writing… So Where Am I So Far?So Scholarly Writing in Education has completed. I have submitted all my assignments and attended the lectures. I have enjoyed the course immensely, I’ve been fascinated by the work of my peers, and learned from their feedback. I’m going to attend an Exit Interview with our professor in a few…
