Zero Tolerance and Other Plays (2013)
In May 2007, 15-year old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in the hallway of his Toronto school. One month later, an investigation resulted in a 595-page report entitled ‘The Road to Health‘. A few months later, in an attempt to provoke discussion about the report among teachers in Toronto, I adapted the report into a dramatic script called Zero Tolerance. The play was performed for the first time in September 2008 for 500 new teachers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s annual Safe Schools Conference. Now for the first time, Zero Tolerance and two other play scripts, Lost Daughter and Ana’s Shadow are available as an anthology. Published in 2013, the plays are based on the themes of racism, xenophobia and homophobia and provoke reflection and discussion about the experiences of marginalized families in North America and can be used by educators who work with teachers and youth in schools as well as university instructors who are teaching courses in Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Equity Studies, Immigration Studies, Sexual Diversity Studies, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
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In May 2007, 15-year old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in the hallway of his Toronto school. One month later, an investigation resulted in a 595-page report entitled ‘The Road to Health‘. A few months later, in an attempt to provoke discussion about the report among teachers in Toronto, I adapted the report into a dramatic script called Zero Tolerance. The play was performed for the first time in September 2008 for 500 new teachers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s annual Safe Schools Conference. Now for the first time, Zero Tolerance and two other play scripts, Lost Daughter and Ana’s Shadow are available as an anthology. Published in 2013, the plays are based on the themes of racism, xenophobia and homophobia and provoke reflection and discussion about the experiences of marginalized families in North America and can be used by educators who work with teachers and youth in schools as well as university instructors who are teaching courses in Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Equity Studies, Immigration Studies, Sexual Diversity Studies, Sociology, and Women’s Studies.
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Staging Harriet's House:
Writing and Producing Research Informed Theatre (2012) Presenting an exciting alternative way to share research, Staging Harriet's House (2012) describes the production of Harriet's House, a performed about transnational adoption in a lesbian family, for the 2010 Toronto Pride Festival. Providing practical advice for anyone interested in producing their own work, Staging Harriet's House engages with the topics of writing, workshopping, rehearsing and staging ethnographic plays. Readers will find references to work by American, Australian, British, and other Canadian research-informed theatre artists. The text includes the script that was performed in the 2010 production of the play, as well as a selected bibliography on research-informed theatre. Available from: amazon.com |
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Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School:
Choices, Risks and Dilemmas (2003) Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas (2003) is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the center of the book are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of immigrant students from Hong Kong and rich descriptions of the multitude of ways teachers and students thought about, responded to, and negotiated the issues and dilemmas that arose. The solutions and insights they derived from their experiences of working across linguistic, cultural, and racial differences will be of interest to educators in other locales that have become home to large numbers of immigrant families. The book is designed to help readers think about how the issues and dilemmas in the case study manifest themselves in their own communities and how to apply the insights they gain to their own teaching and learning contexts. Includes the performed ethnography Hong Kong, Canada. Available from: amazon.com |
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Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor (1997)
Two Languages at Work (1997) is an ethnography about language use, identity and economic survival and mobility in a Canadian multicultural, multilingual workplace. By examining the context of second language learning, I encourage researchers and teachers to re-examine assumptions about how to best help students in the process of learning a second language. Available from: amazon.com |