Melanie Panitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6630123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Panitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Panitch |
| SIGNATURE | PANITCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Re)Searching from within
Office of Social Innovation undertakes transformative initiatives that challenge systemic issues and create a space to imagine alternative pathways and perspectives. Our team of staff, students, and faculty has undertaken an intentional process to reflect on these initiatives and elaborate a scholarly approach: one that enters into dialogue with existing scholarship and identifies potential avenues of further research. We explore the guiding prin…
Poised to Advocate
Advocacy is an integral part of child and youth care workers’ roles and a significant component of child and youth care politicized praxis and radical youth work. Drawing from the qualitative data of a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019 at a Canadian metropolitan university, this study seeks to unpack how the pedagogy of the lightning talk can foster advocacy skills to effectively and spontaneously speak out with and on behalf of children, you…
Essential cogs in the innovation machine”
In this article we explore a Canadian example of how the language of innovation reproduces discourses of neoliberalism in postsecondary education policy documents. How innovation is defined and use
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Performativity Culture in Universities
This paper examines the findings of a study we completed into progressive social work education in Canadian schools of social work. In our research, we found that schools of social work offer three key functions for the university: a connection to the community, a space that values diversity and a space of innovation. We investigate these themes in relation to the dynamics of performativity and fabrication. From conversations with those who parti…
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place …
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
1. Accidental Activists and the Canadian Association for Community Living 2. Categories and Constructs: The Mothering Role and Activist Mothering 3. Founding the Organization 4. The Activist Mothers 5. The Campaign to Close Institutions 6. The Campaign to Secure Human Rights 7. Listening in Stereo to Activist Mothers 8. The Imprint of Activist Mothers
Essential cogs in the innovation machine”
In this article we explore a Canadian example of how the language of innovation reproduces discourses of neoliberalism in postsecondary education policy documents. How innovation is defined and use
Performativity Culture in Universities
This paper examines the findings of a study we completed into progressive social work education in Canadian schools of social work. In our research, we found that schools of social work offer three key functions for the university: a connection to the community, a space that values diversity and a space of innovation. We investigate these themes in relation to the dynamics of performativity and fabrication. From conversations with those who parti…
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
1. Accidental Activists and the Canadian Association for Community Living 2. Categories and Constructs: The Mothering Role and Activist Mothering 3. Founding the Organization 4. The Activist Mothers 5. The Campaign to Close Institutions 6. The Campaign to Secure Human Rights 7. Listening in Stereo to Activist Mothers 8. The Imprint of Activist Mothers
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place …
Performativity Culture in Universities
This paper examines the findings of a study we completed into progressive social work education in Canadian schools of social work. In our research, we found that schools of social work offer three key functions for the university: a connection to the community, a space that values diversity and a space of innovation. We investigate these themes in relation to the dynamics of performativity and fabrication. From conversations with those who parti…
Essential cogs in the innovation machine”
In this article we explore a Canadian example of how the language of innovation reproduces discourses of neoliberalism in postsecondary education policy documents. How innovation is defined and use
Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada
This article introduces the exhibit called Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember and positions it as a focal point for exploring questions of disability, museum exhibition and adult education. Created by the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Out from Under was the first public exhibit of disability history in Canada (2007–2014) and the first to be displayed at the prestigious Royal Ontario Museum.…
Poised to Advocate
Advocacy is an integral part of child and youth care workers’ roles and a significant component of child and youth care politicized praxis and radical youth work. Drawing from the qualitative data of a mixed-methods study conducted in 2019 at a Canadian metropolitan university, this study seeks to unpack how the pedagogy of the lightning talk can foster advocacy skills to effectively and spontaneously speak out with and on behalf of children, you…
(Re)Searching from within
Office of Social Innovation undertakes transformative initiatives that challenge systemic issues and create a space to imagine alternative pathways and perspectives. Our team of staff, students, and faculty has undertaken an intentional process to reflect on these initiatives and elaborate a scholarly approach: one that enters into dialogue with existing scholarship and identifies potential avenues of further research. We explore the guiding prin…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works)