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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 ... -
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 ...
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