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Co-constructing Peer Feedback Practices in an Elementary School Mathematics Classroom: An Enactivist Perspective
(2020-11-13)Feedback has been recognized as one of the most powerful factors in school achievement, and a great body of research has been devoted to studying its effectiveness. In this research, I bring together research in peer ... -
Black Students and the Education System - The Pursuit of Success
(2020-11-13)Through in-depth qualitative interviews, I examined the contributors to the success of seven Black university alumni to discover how we can increase Black students university attendance in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ... -
Are you looking at my madness? Examining Canadian-Caribbean youth's intergenerational stories of mental health
(2020-11-13)This study investigated resources used by Canadian-Caribbean youth to define and respond to mental health and mental illness; as well, the study examined the effects that culture, history, and intergenerational knowledge ... -
Ask Again: A Novel Experiment in Early Childhood Knowledge Relations through a Phenomenological Study of Claims on the Thinking Child's Words and Development
(2020-11-13)Early childhood, and the wild and tender moments of its care and education, has been depicted by those who love it. Thus, in a profession inscribed by the throngs of love surrounding the work of care and education, early ... -
MakerMinds: An exploration of making and mindfulness pedagogies
(2020-08-11)In this doctoral research, I explore how making and mindfulness pedagogies interact when carried out in a single curricular intervention (MakerMinds) and, in particular, how making works to engage students in mindfulness ... -
The Unity of Cognition and Emotion in Preschool Teachers' Understandings of Language Learning and Language Use
(2020-08-11)My research study investigates how teachers of linguistically diverse young learners understand language learning and language use in the context of their professional and personal experiences. Drawing on the concept of ... -
The equity work of activist teachers: Navigating educational policy on gender -based violence in neoliberal times
(2020-08-11)In the last fifty years, the transnational re-organization of the economy has similarly re-structured education in the West to reflect a focus on standards, assessments, accountability systems, and performance indicators ... -
Iranian Women's Quest for Self-Liberation through the Internet and Social Media: An Emancipatory Pedagogy
(2020-08-11)This dissertation examines the discourse of body autonomy among Iranian women. It approaches the discourse of body autonomy by deconstructing veiling, public mobility, and sexuality, while considering the impact of society, ... -
The Discursive Construction of Hate: A Comparative Analysis of the Marginalization and Dehumanization of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany and in Pre-Stonewall United States
(2020-05-11)This research study explores and compares substantive and rhetorical strategies through which homosexuals came to be reviled and pathologized in Nazi Germany and the pre-Stonewall US by sufficiently large segments of their ... -
The Effects of a Self-Regulation Professional Learning Intervention on Early Childhood Educator Beliefs and Practices Regarding Child Behaviour, Relationships with Children, and Professional Stress
(2020-05-11)Decades of research on early student-teacher relationships (STRs) show that they play a pivotal role in the behavioural, academic, and social outcomes of the child. This research allows us to conclude with near certainty ... -
Under the Hood: An (Auto) Ethnographic Study of How White Adolescent Males Critically Engage with Race in Grand Theft Auto V
(2020-05-11)Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is emblematic of the public controversies that associate video games with violence, misogyny, and damaging depictions of race and gender. However, it is also a layered referential and self-reflexive ... -
Black Girls Clap Back: Intersectionality, Black Girlhood, and Inequity in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
(2020-05-11)The diverse lives of Black girls within North America are deeply rooted in various histories of marginalization. They continue to face forms of oppression as a result of their intersectional identities, which produces ... -
Internationalization and Undergraduate Music Programs: Navigating Soundscapes of Identities in Hong Kong
(2019-11-22)Some research stresses the importance of intercultural learning in undergraduate ethnomusicology courses for dialogue and cultural understanding in an increasingly globalized world but limited changes have been made to ... -
Interconnections between Self and Others: Building an Ethical Foundation for a Mindful Model of Spatial Literacy
(2019-11-22)This dissertation is a qualitative ethnographic study exploring embodied mindfulness practices in relation to self and community. I begin by recasting mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn, 2013; Langer, 1989) as literacy (Soloway, 2015) ... -
International Education as Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis of the Construction, Context, and Empowerment of Ontarios International Education Storylines
(2019-11-22)This study aims to examine the international education (IE) policy-making context in Ontario for the period from 2005 to mid-2017 while also taking into account the announcement of the new policy document Ontarios International ... -
Making Connections to Deepen New Teachers' Understanding of Elementary Mathematics
(2019-11-22)This study investigates how Ontario newly graduated teachers who have obtained certification but have not begun teaching, can make connections within their existing elementary mathematical knowledge. Typically, beginning ... -
Post-French Immersion Student Perceptions of Parallel Concordancing: A Mixed Methods Study
(2019-11-22)I examine the perceptions of students who have graduated from the Ontario French immersion program toward an online corpus at a university in Ontario. No corpus research has yet been conducted on post-French immersion ... -
Drama is Life! Exploring Ethno-Drama as a Model for Designing a 21st Century Secondary Drama Curriculum
(2019-11-22)In a world of rapidly changing demographics combined with growing global nationalism and increased connectivity, educators are forced to reconsider many previously held assumptions. This study proposes an innovative approach ... -
Critical Pedagogy for Social Service Management
(2019-11-22)The study examines how the practice of management in the social services might be conducted with social justice values at the forefront. It builds on current Critical Management Studies (CMS) theory by considering the ... -
Rich and Poor Divide: How Portrayals of the Poor and Poverty in News Media Perpetuate Stigma and Inequality
(2019-07-02)Discourses about people who are rich and those who are poor are pervasive in our society. Online news media is one of the ways in which these power dominated messages are disseminated. Forty online news articles from four ...
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