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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 ... -
Studying Professional Learning from the Perspective of Wittgenstein's Picture of Language and Meaning
(2019-07-02)In professional learning, both practice and research have tended to limit focus on linear features of dissemination, the development of programmatic change approaches, and scientism. The aim of this dissertation is to find ... -
Citizens of Tomorrow, Today: Political Futurity and Youth Citizenship in a High School Student Council
(2019-07-02)Student councils are ubiquitous in North American high schools, and yet, they are often overlooked as a site of youth citizenship and student leadership. This dissertation explores the affective dimensions of youth citizenship ... -
Learning from the Experiences of Indigenous Children in Care Who Have Multiple School Changes as a Result of Placement Disruption
(2019-07-02)Crown Wards in Ontario change placements 2.6 to 8.6 times (on average) with the provincial average being four times (Contenta, Monsebraaten, Rankin, Bailey & Ng, 2015, p. 20). This means children in care often change ... -
Conceiving of One's Practice: Engaging with Constellations of Influence and Arguments of Authority in Environmental Education
(2019-07-02)This study brought to light the narratives of four ordinary environmental educators with the purpose of better understanding the constellation of influences that delivered them to and caused them to remain within the field ... -
Accidents in Reading: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Reader's Emotional Life
(2019-07-02)In this dissertation, I examine the emotional landscape of literacy and its breakdowns to suggest that difficulties in reading have something to teach us about literacy and education. Engaging psychoanalytic theories of ... -
Come to Your Senses, Remember Belongings: A Pedagogy of Making, Memory and the Haptics of Home
(2019-07-02)The relationships of memory to place, and of place to body, assert haptic memory and sensory knowing in this art practice research. Beginning with evocative objects a wardrobe, a pair of shoes, a dress this dissertation ... -
A View from the Classroom: An Inquiry into How Educators of Ontario's Literacy Basic Skills Program Conceptualize Adult Literacy Learning
(2019-03-05)The Ontario Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities (MTCU) uses the human capital framework advocated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to structure its Literacy Basic Skills (LBS) ... -
Blended Learning in Higher Education: Exploring Students' Perceptions of Course Design, Pedagogical Approaches, and Use of Technology in an Undergraduate Visual Arts Course
(2019-03-05)Arts educators have been experiencing the pressures of current and emerging technologies and technological tools that are transforming the teaching and learning process in visual and performing arts fields in higher ... -
I'll Tell the Story My Way! Multi-perspective, Multimodal Storytelling in an Elementary Classroom
(2019-03-05)The project investigated how elementary students engaged in creating 21st-century narratives with multiple perspective storylines enriched with images, videos and sound. The project was implemented as three substudies - ... -
Portraits in Development: The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Creating What is Found
(2019-03-05)The study of human development can be said to begin from the thought of how an infant becomes a self over time out of instinct and fantasy life with the help of a maternal other. In this way, development is also a question ... -
The Impact of an Integrated iPad Daily Multiliteracies Pedagogy on Elementary Students' Reading Achievement, Skills, Engagement, Collaboration and Learning, and Self Perception
(2019-03-05)This study investigated the impact of the absence and presence of digital technology as part of a daily literacy program on second grade elementary students reading achievement, skill development and engagement, collaboration ... -
Disinvited Students: Social Work, Community Colleges, and the Process of Mandatory Withdrawal
(2018-11-21)Persistence is a serious concern for colleges, typically accepting a higher share of marginalized students than their university counterparts. Unfortunately, many students are expelled from their professional programs for ... -
Growing Prior Knowings of Zero: Growth of Mathematical Understanding of Learners with Difficulties in Mathematics
(2018-11-21)Currently, there is a large proportion of learners experiencing difficulties in mathematics. Much of the intervention research for children with great difficulty learning mathematics has focused on accommodations to the ... -
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 ... -
From Safe Havens to Monstrous Worlds: The 'Child' in Narratives of Environmental Collapse
(2018-11-21)Children are widely used as emotive symbols of our shared ecological future, evoking concerns for the next generation as well as the philosophical stakes and challenges of politically addressing climate change. The 'child' ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Miss mek wi trai: Using Multiliteracies Pedagogy to Effect Changes in Jamaica Inner-city Grade 7 Students' English Learning
(2018-11-21)My four-month research project is the first recorded Jamaican study to explore if and how multiliteracies pedagogy (MLS) paired with sociocultural theory (SCT) can improve inner-city students English language development ... -
Decoding STEM: The Impact of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Outreach Programming on English Language Learners
(2018-08-27)Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are often considered to be gatekeeping school subjects. The language used in STEM education and traditional pedagogies which place emphasis on textbook learning ...
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