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Canadian public policy and the social economy
(University of Victoria, 2012) Downing, Rupert
This publication of the Social Economy Research Hub brings together a sample of papers that address a common theme: What significance does the social economy have as a concept and vehicle for addressing social, economic and environmental policy issues in Canada?
Community-university research partnerships: Reflections on the Canadian social economy experience
(University of Victoria, 2011) Hall, Peter V.; MacPherson, Ian
This eBook explores lessons for community-university research partnerships by reflecting on the experiences, achievements and challenges of the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships (CSERP). Between 2006 and 2012, the six regional nodes and the national hub of CSERP were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to conduct research on the social economy in Canada. This provided an unprecedented level of resources and pan-Canadian experimentation within a collaborative model of engagement, knowledge creation, sectoral (self) definition and policy development through research.
Assembling understandings: Findings from the Canadian social economy research partnerships, 2005-2011
(University of Victoria, 2012) Thompson, Matthew; Emmanuel, Joy
With Assembling Understandings, the Canadian Social Economy Hub has developed a thematic summary of the CSERP outputs, exploring some of the dominant crosscutting themes within the research findings. This approach is very similar to a grounded theory approach wherein the authors, while reviewing the various available documents, ‘listened’ to the data for emerging themes. Care was taken to engage with the work from multiple angles, taking note of both diversity and unity within the body of research. The challenge in this form of research was for the authors to construct each chapter based on what was covered in the research as opposed to the expanse of what can be covered under each theme. In this way, the overall picture provided here is not a complete analysis of Canada’s social economy landscape, but rather provides an overview of the CSERP research findings in the following thematic areas: Mapping, Social Enterprise, Co-operatives, Indigenous Peoples, Organizational Governance & Capacity, Social Finance, and Public Policy. Each thematic area had representation in over 50 CSERP projects, with some chapters involving as many as 85 relevant research products. As a result, Assembling Understandings is a useful reference point for both reviewing the available CSERP documents and identifying where further research may be required.
The Girls' Diary Project: Writing Ourselves into Being
(2013-03-05) Scott, Daniel G.; McFerran, Shannon
The Girls' Diary Project project explored original diary material revealing many insights into the development of self-awareness and self-presentation in girls´ adolescence. Now, The Girls Diary Project: Writing Ourselves Into Being opens the locked books on the inner lives of girls, to begin to understand and honour the intense and complex passage into adulthood, as it is expressed by girls themselves.
Restoration Walks in Victoria: A Guide to Several Ecological Restoration Projects in Greater Victoria, BC
(University of Victoria, 2013) Schaefer, Valentin; Miles, Jessica
Presented here are 5 series of restoration walks, initially offered by the Restoration of Natural Systems Program of the University of Victoria, as well as one contributed walk. Demand for the walks was far greater than our capacity, so we produced this book for the benefit of those who would still like to experience what ecological restoration looks like in Greater Victoria.
Crime prevention and community safety for children and youth in Canada
(University of Victoria, 2011) Vallée, Michel (Ed.); Caputo, Tullio
This book presents a collection of essays from some of Canada's most well known scholars on the safety, health and well-being of children and youth. Several introductory chapters provide a useful overview of the concept of crime prevention and explore both historical and contemporary research describing Canada's experience in this area. The remainder of the book builds on this framework with original articles addressing topical issues such as evidence-based crime prevention, early intervention models, youth gangs, violence against young women and the experience of Aboriginal youth. The book provides a compelling discussion of comprehensive community crime prevention.
The Seghers Collections: Old Books for a New World
(University of Victoria Libraries, 2013) Cazes, Hélène
The Seghers Collection consists of approximately 4,000 volumes. It is essentially Seghers’ personal library complemented by collateral works purchased by the diocese. It is rich in continental imprints from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and reflects his broad interests: philosophy, ethics, psychology, science, Roman history, drama, and music. Devotional literature is a large component and the collection contains most of the major works of the Church Fathers, the complete Patrologiae in both Greek and Latin, the Acta Sanctorum (66 volumes), a large collection of bibles dating from 1699 to 1855, and a smaller collection of prayer books, treatises, sermons, commentaries, and histories of the Catholic Church. It also contains sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury editions of the works of Aristotle, Valerius, Maximus, Justinus, Tacitus, and other classical authors.
The lion and the fox: Art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection
(University of Victoria Libraries, 2009) Lewis, Wyndham; Fox, C.J. (Cyril James); Russell, Danielle
This exhibition presents the Wyndham Lewis portion of the University of Victoria’s overall C.J. Fox Collection. The title, The Lion and the Fox, is meant to indicate a duality between Lewis as subject and myself as collector. It will be familiar to Lewis readers as the title of his 1927 book about the influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare.1 That spirited study, which revealed as much about its author as it did about Shakespeare, echoes Machiavelli’s argument that the successful ruler must be a blend of the leonine on the one hand, and the vulpine, on the other. To Lewis’s mind, it was the very lack of essential “foxian” guile that gave Shakespearean giants like Coriolanus, Timon and Othello their tragic magnificence as against the small and crooked “men of the world.”
Year of Ulysses
(2014-07-28) Krecsy, Stefan; Modernist Versions Project Team
The YoU book is a record of the multiple events the Modernist Versions Project ran over the course of a year as it published in digital facsimile the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It includes a curated record of all the Twitter chats hosted by Joyce scholars over the course of the year, and focusing on each chapter as it was released. It thus captures the apparently ephemeral activity of scholars conversing in real time over social media about Ulysses.
The Transgender Archives : Foundations for the Future
(University of Victoria Libraries, 2014) Devor, Aaron H.
Victoria's Urban Forest: A Walking Guide to Species of Interest
(2014-11-21) Schaefer, Valentin
Complexities, Capacities, Communities: Changing Development Narratives in Early Childhood Education, Care and Development
(2016-03-07) Pence, Alan; Benner, Allison
The term ‘capacity building’ has come into common usage in twenty-first century international development. While the term means different things to different people, it is often used to describe an infusion of knowledge or skills to help ‘build’ a government’s or institution’s ability to address key development challenges. However, like other well intentioned interventions from the industrialized West, such ‘capacity building’ can have destructive, as well as productive, impacts. This volume problematizes such activities and presents an alternative approach to promoting capacity in development contexts. The volume starts with an exploration of the concept of capacity building and goes on to focus on two examples of capacity promotion for early childhood education, care and development (ECD). The First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), an innovative and successful post-secondary education program initiated in 1989 at the request of a large tribal council in northern Canada, led to 10 educational deliveries with diverse Indigenous communities over the subsequent two decades. The second program, launched in 1994 at the request of UNICEF headquarters, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa. While the program encompasses a range of capacity-promoting activities, the central vehicle for this ECD development work is the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), a program created in 2001 and now in transition to African universities. This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities—at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities.
Voices of Kakehashi in Multicultural Canada: Transcultural and Intercultural Experiences
(2016-03-18) Noro, Hiroko; Suzuki, Tadanobu
This book serves to develop a strong internal narrative that connects the diverse dimensions of intercultural experiences, ranging from scholarly work on Japanese immigration history, language pedagogy on intercultural competences, to personal accounts by the people from diverse cultural and linguistic background. In other words, it offers those who are keenly aware of the importance of the development of a global mindset with a platform or common ground to share their endeavours formerly pigeonholed and isolated, by fostering interest in community engagement and partnership building.
Complexités, Capacités, Communautés: Changer le discours sur le développement dans l’éducation, la protection et le développement de la petite enfance
(2016-06-10) Pence, Alan; Benner, Allison
Le terme “renforcement des capacités” est entré dans le langage courant durant le développement international du vingt-et-unième siècle. Alors que ce terme a une signification différente pour différentes personnes, il est souvent utilisé pour décrire une infusion de connaissances ou de compétences pour contribuer à la création d’un gouvernement ou institution capable de répondre aux défis majeurs liés au développement. Toutefois, comme d’autres interventions bien intentionnées de l’Ouest industrialisé, un tel “renforcement des capacités” peut avoir un effet autant destructeur que productif. Ce volume problématise de telles activités et présente une autre façon de promouvoir la construction de capacité dans le cadre du développement. Le volume commence par une exploration du concept de renforcement des capacités et se concentre ensuite sur deux exemples de promotion de capacités pour l’éducation, les soins et le développement de la petite enfance (DPE). Le Programme de Partenariats des Premières Nations (PPPN), un programme d’éducation postsecondaire innovateur et efficace lancé en 1989 à la demande d’un grand conseil tribal dans le nord du Canada, a mené à 10 apports éducatifs dans diverses communautés autochtones au cours des vingt ans qui ont suivis. Le deuxième programme, lancé en 1994 à la demande du siège de l’UNICEF, met l’accent sur l’Afrique subsaharienne. Alors que le programme inclut toute une gamme d’activités qui concernent la promotion de capacités, le vecteur central pour ce travail de développement est l’Université Virtuelle pour le Développement de la Petite-Enfance (UVDPE), un programme créé en 2001 et maintenant en phase de transition vers les universités africaines. Ce livre décrit des approches pour la promotion de capacité qui répondent aux complexités et aux possibilités des communautés – au niveau local ainsi que national. Ces initiatives défient le discours actuel en ce qui concerne le développent dans le cadre du DPE et du développement international et, ce faisant, fournit d’autres moyens de renforcer les capacités pour les chercheurs et les professionnels dans le DPE, l’éducation, et le vaste domaine du développement international.
The Alchemy of Astonishment: Engaging the Power of Theatre
(2017-01-27) Weigler, Will
When stage director Will Weigler analyzed nearly 100 stories from people about their most unforgettable experiences at the theatre, he realized that even though the plays were very different, they all had one thing in common. After discovering just what it was that made them so astonishing, he turned the results of his research into a vocabulary of staging strategies that anyone can access to powerfully express the stories they want to tell through theatre. Combining theory with application, "The Alchemy of Astonishment" is a useful resource for scholars, educators, students, theatregoers, and theatre artists of every kind. For those who facilitate devised theatre with communities, this book and its supplementary deck of teaching cards offer professional artists and the people with whom they work a shared language that will allow them to meet as equitable partners in the creative co-authorship and staging of dynamic and compelling plays.
Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence-based Approach
(2017-02-27) Lau, Francis; Kuziemsky, Craig
This handbook presents the science and practice of eHealth evaluation based on empirical evidence gathered over many years within the health informatics discipline. The handbook describes different approaches used to evaluate the planning, design, implementation, use and impact of eHealth systems in different health settings. It also provides a snapshot of the current state of knowledge on the consequences of opting for eHealth systems with respect to their effects and implications on provider performance and health outcomes. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC). Third party copyrighted material has been used with permission. Any further reuse must be cleared directly with the rights holder.
Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science (Book 1)
(2017-02-28) Snively, Gloria; Williams, Wanosts'a7 Lorna
Knowing Home weaves Indigenous perspectives, worldviews, and wisdom practices into the science curriculum. It provides a window into the scientific knowledge and technological innovations of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America, thus providing numerous examples and cases for developing science lessons and curricula. Knowing Home shows how Indigenous perspectives can give insight and guidance as we attempt to solve the complex environmental problems of the 21st century.
One Path to co-operative studies: A selection of papers and presentations
(British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, 2007) MacPherson, Ian
One can approach the study of co-operatives and the co-operative movement from many disciplinary and experiential directions. The essays in this book reflect the journey of one Canadian activist and researcher. It includes some essays from the beginning of his career as an historian, others that demonstrate how and why he became devoted to the field of Co-operative Studies. Though still believing he is fundamentally an historian, he came to recognize, through involvement as an elected person with several coops and community organizations and through discussions with researchers from other disciplines, that a single-discipline approach to understanding the co-operative movement is woefully inadequate for the academy – and co-operators. He now holds the view that this is a main reason why the movement has been poorly understood and under appreciated. He believes that the complexities and possibilities of the movement can only be fully understood by creating a truly interdisciplinary and international approach. The collection of articles suggest how he reached that conclusion.
Greek and Latin Roots, Part 1 (Latin) and Part 2 (Greek). Contribution of Greek and Latin to the English Language
(2017-09-19) Smith, Peter
This series examines the systematic principles by which a large portion of English vocabulary has evolved from Latin and (to a lesser degree) from Greek. All areas in health, law or the social sciences use specialized vocabulary based on Latin and Greek vocabulary. This open textbook helps you master the vocabulary: how words work and where they come from. The textbook may be of interest to Greek and Roman Studies departments across North America or to healthcare and law programs
The Tree Trunk Can Be My Pillow
(2017-11-27) Kagetsu, Tadashi Jack
“This book is a son’s tribute to his father, delivered to readers after the death of both. As Jack Kagetsu laboured for a decade on his manuscript, travelling to archives, combing newspaper articles, and organizing his findings as well as his memories into writing, he must have felt that he was discovering parts of himself as well as his father. It is a very personal history. The book also has communal resonance for Japanese Canadians. It reflects reverence for elders and speaks to the accomplishments and losses of a generation of immigrant founders, the Issei. In the case of Eikichi Kagetsu both accomplishment and loss were of staggering proportions; perhaps no one else built so much, only to see it stolen in the mid-twentieth century odyssey of Japanese Canadians.” -Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross, Department of History, University of Victoria

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