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Making Waves: Intra-actions with Educational Media at the National Film Board of Canada from 1960-2016
(2018-03-01)
This dissertation aims to excavate the narrative of educational programming at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) from 1960 to 2016. The producers and creative staff of Studio G the epicentre of educational programming ...
A Psychosocial Study of the Professional Recourse to the Adolescent Body in Education
(2018-11-21)
A Psychosocial Study of The Professional Recourse to The Adolescent Body in Education examines formulations of the adolescent body in the major social establishments of education, psychiatry, politics, and law. The ...
Academic Outcome in Pediatric Stroke: A Multifaceted Approach to Exploring Challenges and Achievements
(2018-11-21)
An important cause of acquired brain injury in children, pediatric stroke causes sequelae across a wide range of cognitive domains, including expressive language, attention, memory, and processing speed. As a result, ...
More than an "Unhappy Object": The Ethical, Relational and Pedagogical Possibilities of Talking with Young People about Pornography
(2018-11-21)
Despite its ubiquity, online pornography has retained its status as an unhappy object (Ahmed, 2008) that is taken-for-granted as uniquely and inherently harmful for viewers, for participants, and for society in general. ...
The Mind of the New Socialist Student in the Chinese Revolutionary Imagination, 1949-1958
(2018-11-21)
Between 1949 and 1958, the nascent Peoples Republic of China witnessed a radical shift of knowledge about the human mind that transformed pedagogy. Against the Cold War and the changing Sino-Soviet relation, Chinese ...
Legitimizing Languages in the Classroom: A Case Study of an Ontario Private School for Russian-Speaking Students
(2018-03-01)
In this ethnographic case study, I investigated how Ontario elementary school administrators, teachers, and students legitimize linguistic diversity in one Ontario private elementary school that served students from the ...
Teacher-Student Relatedness: The Importance of Classroom Relationships for Children with Hearing Loss
(2018-08-27)
There is evidence to suggest that there is a strong relationship between psychosocial development and academic performance. The school is an important setting for developing social skills, and students function optimally ...
The Ill Which Remains Within: Exploring the Limits of Hope as a Philosophical Basis for Education
(2018-03-01)
Being particularly at home in critical theories of education, hope is invoked widely by theorists to render bearable perspectives of the politics and practices of education which leave the reader with little reason for ...
SOLD: The Human and Economic Costs of Trafficking Women and Girls
(2018-11-21)
In November 2017, the stories of women and girls who had been trafficked for sexual exploitation from West Bengal, India were recorded and the role that education and vocational training plays in societal reintegration ...
Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System
(2018-11-21)
This research paper is concerned with the problem of black youths educational underachievement in Ontario public schools. The general aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that this problem is not one that education policy ...