New books
From sun safety to sign language ideologies, professors in the Faculty of Community Services (FCS) are exploring, and publishing on, a range of research topics that impact the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Check out the following new books published by professors in FCS.
Aging People, Aging Places - Experiences, Opportunities, and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada (external link)
Edited by Maxwell Hartt, Samantha Biglieri, Mark W. Rosenberg and Sarah E. Nelson
From the publisher: How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults? The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the built and social environments of many communities, neighbourhoods and cities have not been designed to help Canadians age well. Bringing together academic research, practitioner reflections and personal narratives from older adults across Canada, this cutting-edge text provides a rare spotlight on the local implications of aging in Canadian cities and communities. It explores employment, housing, transportation, cultural safety, health, planning and more, to provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of how to build supportive communities for Canadians of all ages.
Samantha Biglieri is a professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Sustainable Brownfield Development: Building a Sustainable Future on the Sites of our Polluting Past (external link)
Christopher De Sousa
From the publisher: While industrial and chemical innovations have contributed extensively to human advancement, the darker part of their legacy has been the hundreds of thousands of polluted sites left behind. Governments at all levels have rallied to support the remediation and reuse of these land resources and put many of the nation’s brownfields back into productive use. This book presents two dozen brownfield projects in the United States that have incorporated sustainability, highlighting project features, best management practices, and lessons from the field regarding the underlying policies and practices that enabled these projects to be completed or, in some cases, stalled, altered or abandoned.
Christopher De Sousa is a professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Body Stories: In and Out and With and Through Fat (external link)
Edited by Jill Andrew and May Friedman
From the publisher: Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a “how-to” guide for fat confidence. It’s not a compendium of fat suffering. It’s simply a collection of narratives about what it’s like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people’s ideas about our existence.
May Friedman is a professor in the School of Social Work.
Documentation in Nursing: 1st Canadian edition
Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Charlene Ronquillo, Michelle Hughes, and Joy Garmaise-Yee
From the publisher: This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices of documentation in the nursing profession. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs, and addresses principles of documentation, legislation associated with documentation, methods and systems of documentation, and key trends in the future of documentation. Incorporated into this resource is legislation and practice standards specific to the province of Ontario, Canada.
Jennifer Lapum and Oona St-Amant are professors in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
Introduction to Communication in Nursing
Edited by Jennifer Lapum, Oona St-Amant, Michelle Hughes, and Joy Garmaise-Yee
From the publisher: This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in communication in the context of the nursing profession. The resource addresses communication theory, therapeutic communication and interviewing, and interprofessional communication as it relates to nursing. This resource is designed for students in undergraduate nursing programs. The project is supported and funded by the Ryerson University Faculty of Community Services Publication Grant.
Jennifer Lapum and Oona St-Amant are professors in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
Physical Examination Techniques: A Nurses Guide
Jennifer Lapum, Michelle Hughes, Oona St-Amant, Wendy Garcia, Margaret Verkuyl, Paul Petrie, Frances Dimaranan, Mahidhar Pemasani, and Nada Savicevic
From the publisher: This open access textbook is an introductory resource to guide best practices of objective assessment techniques related to inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation (IPPA). Its intended audience is students in health-related post-secondary programs such as nursing.
Jennifer Lapum and Oona St-Amant are professors in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education (external link)
Edited by: Kristin Snoddon and Joanne C. Weber
From the publisher: This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. The book provides a critical overview and snapshot of the use of sign languages in education for deaf children today and explores contemporary issues in education for deaf children such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning. The research presented in this book marks a significant development in understanding deaf children's language use and provides insights into the flexibility and pragmatism of young deaf people and their families' communicative practices. It incorporates the views of young deaf people and their parents regarding their language use that are rarely visible in the research to date.
Kristin Snoddon is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies
Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (external link)
Edited by: Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty and Kristin Snoddon
From the publisher: This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.
Kristin Snoddon is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies
Sun Safety at Work: A Management Systems Approach to Occupational Sun Safety (external link)
Thomas Tenkate and Peter Strahlendorf
From the publisher: This detailed guide was developed by Thomas Tenkate and Peter Strahlendorf from Ryerson University through the Sun Safety at Work Canada project. The project engaged workplaces from across Canada to implement the Model Sun Safety program. The guide assists workplaces in developing and implementing practical and sustainable Sun Safety Programs. The guide provides a comprehensive program of elements which help workplace parties (management, OHS professionals, JHSC or H&S Rep) implement sun safety in their workplace. The guide is intended for outdoor workers who are exposed to the sun.
Thomas Tenkate and Peter Strahlendorf are professors in the School of Occupational and Public Health.
IECSS IN ACTION! A Community Action Evaluation Project
Kathryn Underwood
From the publisher: This report presents findings from seven community evaluation projects of early childhood programs in Ontario and British Columbia. Each of the projects aims to develop strategies for the programs to become more inclusive of disabled children. The communities are representative of rural, remote and urban locations, and serve families with a wide range of cultural viewpoints. Key in the experiences of families, as reported in these projects are challenges that result from poverty, lack of transportation and access to specialized services, concerns about relationships with professionals, and the need for services that are culturally relevant and organized to fit with the families’ needs.
Kathryn Underwood is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies
Recent Advances in Micro- and Macroalgal Processing: Food and Health Perspectives (external link)
Edited by: Gaurav Rajauria and Yvonne V. Yuan
From the publisher: This comprehensive text offers an in-depth exploration of the research and issues surrounding the consumption, economics, composition, processing and health effects of algae. With contributions from an international team of experts, the book explores the application of conventional and emerging technologies for algal processing. The book includes recent developments such as drying and milling technologies along with advancements in sustainable greener techniques.
Yvonne V. Yuan is a professor in the School of Nutrition
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (external link)
Edited by: Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad and Rachel Berman
From the publisher: Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care aims to map, deconstruct, and engage with different models of equity as they pertain to the early childhood education landscape in Ontario. Drawing on marginalized narratives of gender, race, Indigeneity, dis/ability and inclusion, and migration, immigration, and displacement, the authors discuss how to advance the field and make it more equitable for children, families, early childhood educators, and all other practitioners. This edited collection outlines the current political climate of early childhood education and care in Ontario through a critical analysis of policies and dominant discourses of equity and inclusion. By prompting readers to reflect on and critique their understandings of children, families, communities, and practices in the field, the authors seek to provide counternarratives to Eurocentric developmentalist hegemonies and an alternative strength-based approach to critical and transformative praxis.
Rachel Berman is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies
Global Perspectives on Motherhood, Mothering and Masculinities (external link)
Edited by: Tólá Olú Pearce and Andréa Moraes
From the publisher: The two phenomena highlighted in this edited volume ‘motherhood/mothering and masculinities’ are each recent areas of development in critical Feminist and Men’s Studies. In contributing to these areas of gender studies, this book draws attention to the fact that much can also be gained when we explore relationships between them, an idea that may not readily come to mind. While femininities and masculinities are co-constructed, motherhood and mothering bring additional perspectives to the study of femininity that affect the construction of masculinity in complex ways. The 12 chapters in this volume allow readers to ponder some of these complexities and may suggest other issues that require investigation. Spanning many continents, the essays have both a global and historical reach emphasising cultural differences and historical changes. Of import is the idea that mothers have agency and are active in constructions affecting their lives. They are able to bring motherhood out of the shadows as they strive to build, re-evaluate or alter their roles within families and communities. These have an impact on developments in masculinities. The book is divided into three parts and the chapters investigate a wide range of issues including cultural constructs, gender in parent/child, relationships, non-binary developments, the impact of war on mothering, decolonisation struggles, and much more.
Andrea Moraes is a contract lecturer in the School of Nutrition
Did we miss you? We’d love to hear from you! If you are a professor in FCS and don’t see your new book included in this list, please contact Madeleine McGreevy at mmcgreevy@torontomu.ca.
