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e-Learning Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Ontario's Policy Response to School Closures and Implications for Critical Democratic Education
(2022-03-03)According to Naomi Klein's (2007) conceptualization of disaster capitalism, neoliberal policies tend to emerge and take hold during times of crisis and shock. In the months following March 2020, public education policies ... -
On the Education of a Psychiatrist: Notes from the Field
(2022-03-03)The overarching borrowed question that frames the work of this PhD asks, "What does an education in psychiatry do to a psychiatrist?" Early in my practice of child and adolescent psychiatry, the "know how" in the custodianship ... -
Science Fiction, Radical Democracy, and World Building: A Pedagogy of Unknowable Futures
(2022-03-03)The unknowability of the future implicates everyone, yet the narratives of mastery which shape pedagogical approaches to the future do not allow students the opportunity to explore the uncertainty that comes from ultimately ... -
University Instructors Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices Across Stem and Non-Stem Blended Courses
(2022-03-03)The rising trend of blended learning in higher education has benefited student engagement and learning across all disciplines. Universities have facilitated and encouraged teaching and learning centers to offer technology-based ... -
Living, Labouring, and Learning Along the Shores of a Mighty River: One Family's Shifting Relationships with Land and Labour
(2022-03-03)This research explores one family's shifting relationships with land, labour, and learning over one hundred years of living and working along the shores of the Long River in the Coldwaters Valley. Following an oral history ... -
Interpretations of Pedagogical Documentation in Early Learning and Kindergarten Settings by Educators in Ontario, Canada
(2021-11-15)Pedagogical documentation is a multi-modal research methodology and semiotic tool for thinking in the practice of Italian early childhood educators in the Reggio Emilia Approach. In the Reggio Emilia municipal schools ... -
"It wasn't the end that I was so much interested in, it was the journey": Stories of women who pursued a PhD later in life
(2021-11-15)This study provides an exploratory analysis of the experiences of seven women over 50 years of age who returned to an Ontario university to pursue a PhD in early to mid-2000 and who graduated between 2010 and 2018. Using ... -
Exploring Schooling and Educational Attainment through the Experiences of Homeless Youth
(2021-11-15)This research demonstrates that homelessness significantly impacts a young persons academic engagement and attainment. Education is a topic that remains at the core of many debates regarding young people, and is central ... -
Intimate Pedagogy: Visual Explorations of Race and the Erotic
(2021-11-15)This project looks at what centering intimacy in learning can bring to racial justice and decolonial practices. The site of study is the shared colonial histories and knowledges between the Caribbean and Canada. It asks: ... -
Addressing Sexism and Associated Gender Injustices Through Social Justice Mathematics Curricula
(2021-07-06)Patriarchal and sexist discourses have limiting and negative influences on ideologies about sex and gender, personal and social identities, social practices, power relations, interpersonal relationships, and other aspects ... -
The Impossibility of Sex Education: A Psychosocial Study of Parent Involvement in Policy Controversies
(2021-07-06)In recent years, many impassioned debates regarding educational policy have pitted parents against the public education system and have thrown questions of parental and state responsibility for childrens education into the ... -
Enhancing Academic Achievement for Students Living in Poverty Through Leadership and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
(2021-07-06)With the persistent increase in the number of students living in poverty coupled with community pressure to improve academic achievement for all learners, educational leaders have been pursuing initiatives to enhance success ... -
Complicating the Single Story: A Visual Analysis of Images of Forced Migrants
(2021-03-08)The overall focus of this project is to analyze images and writing produced by people with forced migrant experience and examine how they respond to the dominant narratives produced in the mainstream. My study asks the ... -
Emotionally Ever After: A Qualitative Analysis of Socio-Emotional Spaces Inhabited by Female Fairy Tale Characters and their Cinematic Adaptations
(2021-03-08)Fairy tales are endearing and hold a powerful attraction for a wide audience, from the very young to the very old. Classic fairy tales such as Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and ... -
Who am I?: The Emotional Situations and Identity Constructions of Canadian-Born Ismaili Muslim Youth
(2021-03-08)This dissertation examines the inner work of identity formation as it takes shape for minoritized, and often marginalized, Shia Ismaili Muslim adolescents. Through the use of psychoanalytic theory and qualitative research ... -
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 ... -
Wi Hab Cum Ah Lang Way, An Wi Still Hab Fur Fi Guh: The Experiences of Black Jamaican Women With Pre- and Post-Migration Post-Secondary Education in the Academy
(2020-11-13)Many Black female immigrants with pre- and post-migration post-secondary education arrive in Canada with the desire to pursue faculty teaching jobs. However, despite great gains by feminist movements in the 1960s and 80s ... -
Invited to the feast?: Problems of hospitality, coloniality and identity in the music classroom
(2020-11-13)This study sought to understand the complicated interactions of student, teacher, curriculum and curricular objects in one junior music classroom in Ontario. This work was taken up under Derridas call for cities of refuge ... -
Reclaiming Student Voices on School-based, Mental Health Impacts: Youth Reflections, Lived Experiences and Recommendations for Transforming Ontario Secondary Schools
(2020-11-13)In recent years, student mental health has gained considerable attention in Ontarios secondary schools. While the voices of students are central to the discussion about school-based mental health impacts, they are often ... -
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). ...
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