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Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion - 2nd Edition book cover

Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion - 2nd Edition

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Deirdre Maultsaid

Editor(s): Deirdre Maultsaid

Subject(s): Social discrimination and social justice, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Disability: social aspects, Social impact of environmental issues, Health and safety in the workplace, Bullying and harassment

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 02/06/2023

This Open Education resource, “Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion – 2nd Edition, includes valuable cases for student use on issues of discrimination, diversity, equity, inclusion and general social issues in the workplace. Included are cases for discussion on workplace scenarios as follows: homophobia; working with Indigenous communities; oil and gas pipelines and the family ranch; invisible disabilities; employee anxiety; safety for women, transgender women and non-binary people; and the bullying of new immigrants and refugees. The critical events portrayed in the cases are realistic and emotional, and most feature the experiences of under-represented and marginalized people. These thoughtful, contemporary cases pose ethical dilemmas about social issues that encourage post-secondary students and instructors to have stimulating, inclusive, and compassionate discussions. Inspired by input from post-secondary students and authored by students and people who are usually under-represented in education material, this resource is designed for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, business, healthcare, science, agriculture, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, land use studies, law and more. Each case is supplemented with modifiable discussion prompts, notes for teaching strategies, and a short reading list.    

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APA Style Citations

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  45 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Ulrike Kestler

Subject(s): Educational material

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 03/05/2023

APA Style Citations covers why it is important to use citations, elements of common source types, and how to create reference and in-text citations based on the 7th edition APA guidelines. The sources and activities throughout the tutorial focus on educational content. This tutorial can also be used as a reference resource. This tutorial is adapted from APA Style Citation Tutorial by Sarah Adams and Debbie Feisst (University of Alberta Library), which in turn was based on the Introduction to APA Library Tutorials by NorQuest College Library.

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Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook

CC BY (Attribution)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Rebecca Yoshizawa (Ed.)

Subject(s): Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Feminism and feminist theory, Social pedagogy

Institution(s): Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 02/05/2023

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.

The complete hardcopy version of this workbook is available here: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/294/2023/02/Gender-in-Canada-A-Companion-Workbook-2023.pdf

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La hora del cuento en español

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Author(s): Constanza Rojas-Primus, Sofía Rodríguez

Editor(s): Constanza Rojas-Primus, Sofía Rodríguez

Subject(s): Children’s picture books, Spanish, Language teaching and learning, Fiction in translation

Institution(s): Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 28/04/2023

La hora del cuento en español is a collection of children’s stories in Spanish authored by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) students and edited by KPU Faculty Constanza Rojas-Primus and KPU alumna Sofía Rodríguez. The first part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1100 students between Fall 2017 and Spring 2019 as a result of a collaboration between KPU Spanish and Guildford Public Library Language Literacy Program “Storytime in Spanish”. The second part of this collection is a selection of stories written by KPU Spanish 1101 students between Fall 2020 and Spring 2022 as a result of an interuniversity collaboration in support of UNESCO´s Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. All stories are narrated by Constanza Rojas-Primus and have been translated into English by Sofía Rodríguez. The illustrations in the cover and first part of this collection are artwork of KPU Fine Arts student Cheyenne Pokeda.

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Introduction to Criminology

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Author(s): Dr. Shereen Hassan, Dan Lett, MA

Editor(s): Leah Ballantyne, LLB, LLM

Subject(s): Crime and criminology

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 24/04/2023

Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical “canon” of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships.

Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.

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KPU Pressbooks Template

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Author(s): Amanda Grey

Institution(s): Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 24/04/2023

This is a collection of template pages that you can import into your own Pressbooks OER project as a starting point for creating the front and back matter for your project.
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Research Methods in Psychology

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Rajiv S. Jhangiani, I-Chant A. Chiang, Carrie Cuttler, Dana C. Leighton

Subject(s): Psychology, Research methods: general, Social research and statistics

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 29/03/2023

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Level One Peer Tutoring Fundamentals and Integration Workbook

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Alice Macpherson, Christina Page

Subject(s): Education, Teaching skills and techniques, Higher education, tertiary education

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 02/02/2023

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Business Writing For Everyone

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  45 H5P Activities    English (Canada)

Author(s): Arley Cruthers

Subject(s): Business communication and presentation, Writing and editing guides

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 31/01/2023

Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.
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Open Education Strategic Plan 2018-2023

CC BY (Attribution)  5 H5P Activities    English (Canada)

Author(s): Rajiv Jhangiani

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 25/01/2023

This document outlines a vision and strategy for KPU’s open education initiatives. It was developed in collaboration with members of the KPU Open Education Working Group along with other key internal and external stakeholders and in conjunction with Vision 2023 and Academic Plan 2018-2023. In the spirit of openness, this plan has been drafted and revised on the open web and published with an open license.