Browsing by Discipline
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The influence of social media and contract cheating website use on the perception of academic integrity standards
(2023)This work sought to address gaps in the literature regarding perceived student acceptance of certain types of cheating in higher education and the potential relationships to social media use and the digital academic ... -
Informal STEM Education for Underrepresented Racial Minorities: Students’ Perceptions of the Imhotep’s Legacy Academy After-school Programme
(2016-01-05)This study explores students' perceptions of the Imhotep's Legacy Academy After-School Project (ILASP), an after-school STEM programme offered to Nova Scotian students of African descent. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods ... -
Instructors' perceptions of their roles in a culturally diverse classroom at the post secondary level
(2006)This qualitative study investigated instructors’ perceptions of their roles in culturally diverse classrooms at the post secondary level. The participants were six instructors who have had students from different cultural ... -
Integration of international students at Lakehead University - "The Path of Sahanubhooti"
(2018)The portfolio will focus on the increasing internationalization of programs and student populations in Canadian Universities. It will largely focus on the roles, support systems and responsiveness by Lakehead University ... -
Intermediate students at-risk in mathematics : case studies of teachers and students
(2009)Although there have been changes made to Ontario's mathematics curriculum within the last decade to ensure student success, a significant number of students in Ontario schools have been achieving at or below a level 1 and ... -
Interorganizational coordination in a mandated relationship : a case study
(1984)The purpose of this case study was to address the problem of interorganizational coordination in a mandated relationship. Past research had found that the characteristics of the linkage between organizations was likely ... -
Interpretive study of four secondary level male music teachers in Northwestern Ontario
(2001)The relative dearth of qualitative studies on characteristics of exemplary secondary level music teachers buttressed the need for this thesis. I selected four secondary male music teachers deemed exemplary by members ... -
Interpretive study of Native women in post-secondary education
(2003)The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore Native women’s experiences in post-secondary education, in order to assist in developing a greater understanding of the needs of Native women who were students in ... -
Inuit visions for schooling in one Nunavut community
(2009-06-25)This descriptive case study explores Inuit visions for schooling in a remote community in the Qikiqtani (formerly Baffin) Region of Nunavut. I use information from interviews, casual conversations, observations, and a ... -
Investigating teacher's experiences and efficacy beliefs regarding the secondary school civics course : a study of three school boards within Ontario
(2004)The purposes of this study were a) to identify if the introduction of the tenth grade civics course had effected the teacher efficacy beliefs held by those teachers, within three school boards in Ontario, who were to ... -
Investigating the human-nature relationships of wilderness leaders
(2012-11-10)This qualitative study explored how wilderness leaders view wilderness and understand their relationship with wilderness. The term wilderness leader denotes outdoor educators and guides who lead trips in backcountry ... -
Is the customer always right? An examination of neoliberal ideology and its influence on parent-teacher interactions
(2019)This study explores how treating education as a private commodity may affect parent-teacher relationships, including the ways that parents perceive they are treated. The effects of neoliberal ideology on education transform ... -
Is this Black enough? Provocations and contemplations
(2020)Through my Master of Education studies at Lakehead University, I have aimed to conceptualize intersectional experiences within education while theorizing the outcomes of race in education. As a racialized person who grew ... -
Issues and underlying factors relating to the graduation rates of Aboriginal students from mathematics programs
(2014-01-22)The intent of my research was to shed light on the factors that impede Aboriginal students from finding success in their formal mathematical instruction within the Ontario provincial education system. The goal of my research ... -
Issues influencing implementation of inclusion in the regular classroom : perspectives from special education and regular classroom teachers
(2007)This study was premised upon the issues that influence the successful implementation of inclusion in the regular classroom. In particular, this qualitative research investigated the perspectives of experienced regular ... -
It was neither Confucian nor confusion: dynamics of intercultural sensitivity among East-Asian students at Canadian universities
(2022)International students from Confucian heritage culture countries are often perceived by westerners as having low intercultural communication competence (ICC) (Zhu & Bresnahan, 2018). In popular media and mainstream ... -
"It was your ancestors that put them there and they put them there for you" : exploring Indigenous connection to mazinaabikiniganan as land-based education
(2017)This study explored Indigenous connections to mazinaabikiniganan (more commonly known as rock art or pictographs) and investigated how these sites contribute to land-based education. Focused on the community of Batchewana ... -
Job satisfaction of secondary school principals in the Rift Valley province of Kenya
(1993)Few studies have examined how school administrators in Kenya perceive their work and employment conditions. The primary purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the principal' s position contributed to ... -
Joining hands in hope: an autoethnographical analysis of a non-Indigenous educator engaging in Indigenous pedagogy
(2014-01-22)I am a South African who is now a Canadian, with lived experience in both Indigenous contexts. I use these experiences as a springboard into an autoethnography about me as a non-Indigenous educator, understanding authentic ...