From the Editor
The summer issue of Voice is our women’s issue, an opportunity to focus on the contributions, leadership, experiences and perspectives of women.
Early Education
From the Editor
With the summer women’s issue of Voice, we recognize not only the important contributions of ETFO women members but also the differential impacts of the pandemic and all of the cuts from the Ford Conservative government on women and other marginalized groups.
Prioritizing Wages and Working Conditions
Emis Akbari and Kerry McCuaig caution that the Ontario government risks the goals of the entire child care agreement if it ignores the needs of early childhood educators.
Ojiichan’s Gift
By Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Genevieve Simms. Kids Can Press, 2019. 30 pages, $18.99.
Invitations to Play: Using Play to Build Literacy Skills in Young Learners
By Anne Burke. Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2019. 128 pages, $24.95.
Environmental Education
Kimberly Maich talks about some of the classroom strategies she uses to engage and motivate her students to advocate for their own future.
The Day War Came
Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb. Candlewick Press, 2018. 32 pages, $19.99.
The Little Word Catcher
Danielle Simard, illustrated by Geneviève Côté, translated by Jill Corner. Second Story Press, 2007. 24 pages, $14.95.
Pushing The Limits: How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Nancy Steinhauer. Doubleday Canada, 2017. 272 pages, $32.95.
Telling a Different Story
Francesca Alfano reviews Peter Moss’s Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education, a book which proposes that the neoliberal narrative currently being used to understand early childhood education is not neutral or inevitable.