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Traces of motion: making the learning visible in creative dance education
What is the learning that happens in creative dance in an elementary school setting? Can pedagogical documentation, inspired by the educators of Reggio Emilia, make this learning visible to the various stakeholders in ...
Disrupting the discourse: Canadian Black women teachers in the lives of marginalized students
"This dissertation begins with a specific question: What can education learn from experiences of Black women teachers about meeting the educational needs of marginalized learners? It explores this question by focusing on ...
Outside the multicultural: solidarity and the silencing of Palestinian narratives
"This dissertation examines a series of efforts by the Canadian state to silence and censor the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM), particularly activism engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, in the ...
The Canadian ombuds/man/person: impartial and independent aspirational, achievable or impossible?
This study is the first of its kind to examine the conceptualization and the validity of the principles of impartiality and independence as they are understood and implemented by Canadian Ombuds of general jurisdiction. ...
Epidemiology of sports-related injuries in children and youth presenting to Canadian emergency departments from 2007/08 to 2009/10
Although injuries related to sports and recreation represent a significant burden to children and youth, there is a paucity of information about descriptive epidemiology of sports related injury since 2005. The objective ...
Armenian-Canadian women in diaspora: the role of higher education in (up)rooted lives, burdened souls, and enlivened spirits
This dissertation is a life history research-a collective process of remembering, telling, writing, and unravelling. The participants, including myself, are seven Armenian women in Toronto and Montreal who have been educators ...
The causes, character and consequences of economic growth in Canada, 1974-2008: a classical political economic analysis
"This dissertation explores the dynamics of capital accumulation in Canada over the last four decades, including the long downturn from 197 4 to 1990, the subsequent slump, and the long upturn from 1993 to 2008. To this ...
Safe schools for (almost) everyone: the Christian Right's resistance to Ontario's LGBT inclusive 'Accepting Schools Act'
The Christian Right is an important and influential voice in contemporary political discourses and popular culture within Canadian society. This research seeks to analyze the discourses and framing strategies utilized in ...
A community-based study of the effectiveness of trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy with school-aged children in Toronto, Canada
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a widely used treatment model for trauma-exposed children and adolescents (Cohen, Mannarino, & Deblinger, 2006). In this study, a randomized, waitlist-control design ...
Choices and compromises: the abortion movement in Canada 1969-1988
This dissertation explores pro-choice activism in Canada following the 1969 omnibus bill that decriminalized abortion. The 1969 legal amendments permitted abortions performed in accredited hospitals and approved by the ...