Back to School Special

School is almost back in session! We’ve compiled a list of education studies titles to help you get back in the school spirit. Enjoy a 30% discount on our Education Studies books, with discount code MQED. 

Attitudes of Play

By Gabor Csepregi

Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.

Hope Circuits

Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing

By Jessica Riddell

How do we model abundance – in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly non-profits – when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.

Schooling the System

A History of Black Women Teachers

By Funké Aladejebi

As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Transforming Medical Education

Historical Case Studies of Teaching, Learning, and Belonging in Medicine

Edited by Delia Gavrus and Susan Lamb

Transforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that critically foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. As a collection, this book makes a powerful argument about the contextual diversity of instruction and identity formation in medicine.

University Governance in Canada

Navigating Complexity

By Julia Eastman, Glen A. Jones, Claude Trottier and Olivier Bégin-Caouette

Universities play essential roles within Canadian society. University Governance in Canada provides a vital foundation for understanding how decisions are made within and about them. It is an indispensable resource for policy-makers, leaders, faculty, staff, students, and others seeking to contribute to the missions and futures of universities.

University Women

A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada

By Sara Z. MacDonald

For the first generations of university women, higher education was a transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, University Women explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women’s contested entrance into higher education.