7/4/2023 The Death of the Comprehensive High School? Historical, Conte... by Barry M. FranklinRead NowFranklin received numerous honours and awards, including the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case for promoting the equality of girls and women in Canada and the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work in advancing human rights. She wrote and spoke extensively about the futility of war and the connection between peace and social justice. Franklin was a practising Quaker and actively worked on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 19. Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a German-Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |