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1. Enseigner avec bienveillance

Ce livre propose de précieuses informations aux enseignants et parents qui souhaitent enseigner avec bienveillance, c'est-à-dire développer des relations saines avec les enfants, rompre avec des schémas passés insatisfaisants et créer de nouvelles structures sociales acceptables pour tous.

2. La littérature de jeunesse contre le harcèlement scolaire : développer l’empathie pour prévenir le harcèlement

Conciliant analyse littéraire et réflexion didactique, ce livre offre aux enseignants et aux professionnels de l'éducation des outils pour développer auprès de leurs élèves des activi­tés de prévention du harcèlement scolaire.

3. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems 

Why do people give up their autonomy to cult leaders? What makes voting for a dictator seem like a good idea? Author Alexandra Stein shares the dangers of isolating relationships and closed-beliefs systems and shows how education can be used to inoculate us from these traps.

4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness 

In the early 2010s, teen mental health statistics suddenly plunged in many countries around the world.

Johnathan Haidt ties this disaster to the end of play-based child rearing and educational practices that were replaced with screen time. He calls on teachers, parents and governments to take steps to restore childhood now. 

5. Understanding and Supporting Refugee Children and Young People: A Practical Resource for Teachers, Parents and Carers of Those Exposed to the Trauma of War 

As we accept more refugees from around the world into the country, our teachers need to know how to support children whose experiences are completely foreign to most of us. Author Tina Rae explains how we can talk about difficult and painful topics with compassion and help children to develop post-traumatic growth.

6. Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation 

An interesting exploration of why misinformation is as appealing as junk food while facts are as appetizing as raw broccoli. Author Dannagal Goldthwaite Young explores why we cling to lies rather than embrace difficult truths.

7. Learning with AI: The K–12 Teacher's Guide to a New Era of Human Learning 

This practical guide to AI literacy will show teachers how to teach their students critically needed AI skills. 

8. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada  

An honest analysis of Canada’s discriminatory past and current state, while reminding us all of the work we as settlers and Indigenous peoples still need to do.