Browsing Portfolios (Master of Education) by Title
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Land-based pedagogies: a path to decolonizing environmental education in British Columbia
(2017)The purpose of this portfolio is to provide evidence of my graduate learning and to employ this new knowledge in a manner that contributes to the rich and varied decolonization efforts that are being made by Indigenous ... -
The landscape of digital citizenship education in Canada from grades K-12: online privacy education
(2018)In recent years, the availability of digital devices, tablets and other media has significantly increased which has led to a series of transitions in all of social and professional life, including how we teach and learn. ... -
Laughter yoga as embodied healing and educational well-being with Nishnawbe youth
(2018)This portfolio is based upon a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Development Grant project entitled Tikkun Indigenous Youth Project: Pedagogies of Repair and Reconciliation. The ... -
Leadership in a flattened organization: conditions for creating sustained collective efficacy
(2018)This portfolio aims to determine the characteristics or traits that are required to lead system-wide educational change, specifically, a flattening of the traditional hierarchal structure in a school board. Through a review ... -
Literature instruction: using a critical and social lens
(2024)Social change depends on the actions of the citizens of tomorrow. Without creating changes to the curriculum and to the perspectives from which we teach, the likelihood of producing social change is lessened. The main ... -
Malleable multiplication: the use of multiplication strategies and gamification to create conceptual understanding
(2023)I have always considered math to be both my friend and foe. The parts of math I enjoy are algebra, trigonometry, and multiplication. I could find solace in math that was formulaic and had clear instructions. At times ... -
Mighty Girl: Empowering girls through leadership development
(2020)Many girls face a significant decline in their self-esteem during adolescence. However, there is a connection between the skills girls can develop in order to improve their self-esteem, and the development of a leadership ... -
Outdoor play-based number sense and numeration experiences for primary levelled students
(2019)Classroom educators have a great deal of responsibility beyond the generally understood career description of delivering lessons. As educators are creating well thought out lessons that are differentiated to meet the ... -
Post-secondary education: a bridge out of criminality
(2020)This project portfolio provides a proposed educational program for women transitioning out of criminality. By providing criminalized women with access to post-secondary education, this program seeks to remedy the injustice ... -
Power in the Image | Visual Literacy in the Age of COVID-19
(2022)The aim of this portfolio is to explore a journey of research examining the role of photography and visual literacy in contemporary society through the lens of COVID-19 media coverage, attending to the misrepresentation ... -
Practical resources for therapeutic horseback riding programs that support students on the autism spectrum
(2020)Over the past decade, equine-assisted interventions have become increasingly popular as assistive programs for individuals with specialized needs (Gabriels et al., 2012) given the adaptability of these interventions and ... -
Remembering to Remember Shę́h Niyohgwaihó’dę (Our Original Instructions): A Self-Study on Indigenous Languages Programming in Six Nations
(2020)This research portfolio investigates one aspect of the Indigenous language revitalization/reclamation movement, which is Indigenous communities’ and peoples’ reclamation over their formal education systems with hopes of ... -
Representation of Indigenous education in primary classrooms
(2020)Throughout this portfolio, it is discussed how best to support teachers in addressing Indigenous culture throughout the curriculum, and more specifically, teaching Indigenous education to Early Learning Kindergarten age ... -
Restorative practices in education: building teacher capacity and empowering student voice
(2018)How might I support educators to adopt a proactive mindset and develop the skills to respond to conflict restoratively? How might I empower students to take ownership for, and work toward, resolving conflicts that occur ... -
Restoring falsifiability to high school physics education
(2021)The idea that scientific theories and conclusions are provisionally true is essential for students to understand. There are limitations as to what passes for science and epistemological limitations to scientific knowledge. ... -
Say my name: name-based racial microaggressions in Ontario’s K-12 school system
(2022)Names have long been connected with an individual’s perception of themselves and their identities. Studies have shown that negative experiences with one’s name can impact a student’s sense of self and belonging, and their ... -
Sci-fi movies as gateways to empower women students in higher education
(2020)The purpose of this portfolio is to examine whether using sci-fi movies can affect women students’ self-perceptions about their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ability and career-linked self-perceptions ... -
Science education through stories: collection of stories on a website
(2020)Stories are a traditional means of communication that play a role in transferring values belonging to culture from one generation to another and also acts as a powerful pedagogical tool helping people to process their daily ... -
Towards a trans pedagogy of solidarity: creating trauma-informed, anti-oppressive learning environments to support gender diverse learners
(2019)This Master of Education equips educators and school administrators who wish to better support trans and gender diverse students in the classroom and throughout the education system. This work introduces the historical ...
