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Social Citizenship and Disability: Identity, Belonging, and the Structural Organization of Education
(2015-01-26)
The framing of disability is an ongoing, negotiated discourse in which participants build upon, challenge, and reject the political, social, economic, and cultural influences that lead to constructions of impairment. ...
Technology Metaphors at the Base of the Pyramid
(2016-09-20)
Much of the technology consumption literature is predominantly situated in the context of the relatively free individual. It also assumes that the adopted technology is owned, or easily accessible by the consumer. This ...
The Relationship Between Identity Development, Parenting Quality, and Child Functioning: Testing An Expansion of the Process Model of Parenting With a Comparative Sample of Adult and Adolescent Mothers
(2016-09-20)
Identity achievement has been described as a critical developmental task of adolescence, but has seldom been discussed in the context of adolescent parenthood. Little is known about how teen mothers negotiate identity ...
Re-Conceptualizing "Contributing" Homelessness and Unpaid Labour in a Neo-Liberal Climate
(2015-08-28)
The goal of this research was to challenge notions of “contributing” in active citizen discourse. This was done by exploring how individuals experiencing homelessness give back to their communities while surviving through ...
Teen Moms Talk Back: Young Mothers Strategizing Supportive Communities
(2016-09-20)
This thesis centers the expertise of ten young parents that have been involved with child protective services; what they identify as challenges and what would support their parenting. (De)colonizing, intersectional and ...
Homeless Youth Need More Than Low-Paying Employment to Succeed
(2008)
Most homeless youth do not lack the motivation to work and do not prefer a criminal lifestyle to a law-abiding one. Homeless youth see deviant and criminal activities as a short term
economic necessity for survival ...
Management' Policies Are Hurting the Nutrition of Homeless Youth in Toronto
(2008)
Recent policies that claim to help homeless people are having a negative effect on their nutrition. Instead of helping homeless youth become independent and find their own income, the policies force youth to rely on limited ...
The Opportunity Not Taken: Institutional and Cognitive Barriers to Entrepreneurial Innovation in Contexts of Resource Scarcity
(2019-03-05)
Entrepreneurship is increasingly heralded as a solution to poverty, and many organizations and governments have begun to pursue market-based approaches to poverty alleviation through programs like microfinance and ...
Ending the Cycle: Incarceration, Reintegration, and Discharge Planning. A Case Study of the John Howard Society Reintegration Centre
(2016)
A growing trend persists in the Canadian criminal justice system—inmates cycle through correctional facilities to homelessness and re-offend, resulting in subsequent periods of incarceration. The prison door revolves; ...
"Miss I just Don't Feel Like Reading Today": Urban Aboriginal and Black Nova Scotian Youth Perceptions of the Relationship Between Education, Health, and Wellbeing
(2015-08-28)
This research study explores the reciprocal relationship between education, health, and wellbeing for urban Aboriginal and Black Nova Scotian learners. The purpose is to identify health and wellbeing factors that influence ...