Joel Bakan ​Author, Filmmaker & Professor
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  • About
    • About Joel
  • Books
    • Childhood Under Siege
    • The Corporation
    • Just Words
  • Films
    • The Corporation
  • Media
    • Joel's Articles & Blogs
    • Reviews of Childhood Under Siege
    • Joel's Interviews & Speeches
    • The Corporation Stuff
  • Music
  • Contact

Joel's Articles and Blog posts ...


HUFFINGTON BLOG POST
Click here to check out Joel's new Blog at the Huffington Post.
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY BLOG
Click here to check out Joel's new Blog at Psychology Today.
​GLOBE AND MAIL - WRITTEN BY JOEL BAKAN
B.C.’s child labour laws are the most neglectful in the world
I live in Vancouver, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Surrounded by mountains and ocean, the city is a paradise of beaches and gardens, parks and yoga studios, a hub of green ideas, progressive politics and entertainment industry glitter. But there’s a dark underside.
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​MAMAPEDIA VOICES - WRITTEN BY JOEL BAKAN 
American Education Reform and Aunt Ally
American schools are undergoing radical change, something to consider with back to school just around the corner. Initiatives of Presidents Obama (Race to the Top) and Bush (No Child Left Behind), along with the loud shouts of business lobbies, think tanks, and reform groups across the country, have made standardization the new holy grail of schooling. The implications for teachers are profound, and they recently got me thinking about one of my favorite “teachers,” my beloved Aunt Ally.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED - ARTICLE WRITTEN BY JOEL BAKAN​ 
The Kids Are Not All Right
WHEN I sit with my two teenagers, and they are a million miles away, absorbed by the titillating roil of online social life, the addictive pull of video games and virtual worlds, as they stare endlessly at video clips and digital pictures of themselves and their friends, it feels like something is wrong.
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​THE NEW YORK TIME SUNDAY REVIEW - WRITTEN BY JOEL BAKAN
Games People Play
THE Supreme Court’s decision to strike California’s ban on selling and renting violent video games to young people raises the obvious question: what are children and teens playing on their computers and digital screens?
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