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Hello!
We’re excited to share with you the following new OER that has just been published at
KPU:
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
Edited by: Rebecca Yoshizawa
Primary Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
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This workbook is designed for first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies
courses, focusing on the Canadian context. It is divided into five topics - Theory and
Concepts, Institutions, Work, Family and Intimate Relationships, and Bodies and Health.
This workbook does not replace a textbook, instructor teachings through lectures, class
discussion, class assignments, or other standard undergraduate course materials. Instead,
this is an activity book: a course companion, working alongside and with those course
materials. It is designed to build competency, capacity, and confidence with course
materials, concepts, and arguments. It does this by embracing the concepts of embodied
learning, iterative scaffolding, and reflexive insight. "Embodied" means doing
things with your body and not just your mind; "scaffolding" means breaking
things down into constituent parts that can be gathered together to build something
bigger; and "reflexive" means thinking about oneself in relation to broad
concepts and contexts around us. The workbook presents four types of content. (1) Each
chapter has one or two pages of written content deemed "Insights to Think
About," which are summative guides to help students grab onto big ideas. (2) The
chapters also have "Words to Try," encouraging a usable lexicon. (3) Chapters
have thoughtfully designed "Activities." The activities help students to get
ideas down, give those ideas meaning and order, and prepare students to do more engaged
work in course conversations and higher-stakes assignments. (4) Finally, each section ends
with "My Insights On," where students can record their "big picture"
ideas and things they want to explore more in their course discussions and other
assignments.
Visit the Book<https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/genderincanadaworkbook/>
Watch Promo
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study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations
territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and
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