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Growing garden-based educators
(2023)
Garden-based learning (GBL) is resurging in popularity in reaction to a confluence of crises.
These crises, involving social inequity, vast economic disparity, ecocide, and mass extinction,
threaten human well-being and ...
Environmental emotions, environmental social justice, and hope
(2023)
Educators are faced with teaching their students about subjects such as climate change, the mass
extinction of species, and environmental degradation while trying to encourage a love of nature
and pro-environmental ...
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 ...
Black girls and school disciplinary mechanisms
(2023)
This study explores the disproportionate discipline of Black Girls in Ontario’s K-12
publicly funded schools. The current literature exploring racially disproportionate discipline and
the school-to-prison pipeline obscures ...
Racialized Bachelor of Education students' perspectives of performative allyship in the Black Lives Matter movement
(2023)
Performative allyship, also referred to as performative activism, is a non-genuine form of
allyship or activism rooted in growing one’s social capital rather than raising awareness for the
stated human rights issue. ...
Challenged by compassion: an exploration of the lived experience of compassion fatigue among Canadian nurses who worked during COVID-19
(2023)
The experience of compassion fatigue is a serious challenge within caregiving
professions. Scholars agree that although the symptoms of compassion fatigue are similar to
burnout and secondary stress disorder, there is ...
Yearning to learn: a pandemic-inspired approach to grief literacy
(2023)
The COVID-19 global pandemic exacerbated and altered death- and
non-death-related loss, insisting that grief and bereavement adhere to protocols that were
unfamiliar and sometimes even prohibitive to moving forward in a ...
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 ...
The office for standards in education and the pupil premium grant: primary educators’ understanding and experiences of inspection criteria
(2023)
This thesis explores the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) Education Inspection
Framework and its link to the Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) within England’s primary education
system. The Ofsted framework enables ...
Youth perspectives of schooling in a Northern-Ontario community
(2023)
In Ontario, northern, rural youth face disadvantages due to their geographic
location, as the majority of students attending high school, if not relocated to another
community for their studies, must endure daily commutes ...