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Examining barriers and facilitators in using teachers’ journals for critical space
(2017)
Among the varying ways to reflect on practice, learning journals capture the stories and
lived experiences of teachers and help the writer to learn from experience about an event,
an idea, or emotions.
What does critical ...
The transformative potential of community and collective arts pedagogies in Thunder Bay, Canada
(2017)
This dissertation presents the transformative potential of community art
collectives and outlines the pedagogical practices and decisions that contribute to their
impact in the community. The research took place in Thunder ...
Female Brazillian students' experiences at Canadian post-secondary institutions
(2017)
This qualitative study investigated the experiences of Female Brazilian international
students studying in Canadian post-secondary institutions. While funds and research have been
invested in the promotion and marketing ...
Folk schools: slow education for fast times
(2017)
Folk schools are an enduring vision of nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Nikolai Severin Grundtvig. These schools for life offer non-competitive, non-vocational, residential, youth and adult education. This thesis ...
Non-Indigenous educator and Indigenous student relations: rooting ourselves in their values
(2017)
Assimilative and integrative policies remain part of Canada‟s dominant narrative and continue to inform non-Indigenous educators‟ relations with their Indigenous students. Counter narratives of Indigenous student and ...
More than pink shirts and posters: beyond the limits of anti-homophobia education
(2017)
Most schools in Canada are unsafe spaces for queer youth or those perceived by their peers as queer.
Gay/Straight Alliances (GSAs) and other LGBTQ+ inclusive groups exist in schools with the goal of
mitigating and working ...
Sustainable happiness in an ecovillage: exploring the impacts of sustainable living on individual happiness
(2017)
While there has been substantial growth in scholarly attention to negative emotional
responses to environmental issues such as climate change, limited research has been conducted
on the converse, such as how environmentally ...
Ethical considerations for mindfulness in education: prescriptive quick fix or transformational paradigm shift?
(2017)
While mindfulness practices have demonstrated utility in bolstering human well-being and functioning, they are certainly not beyond reproach. Purser and Loy (2013) have coined the term “McMindfulness” to refer to instrumental ...
"We're rapping, not trapping": hip hop as a contemporary expression of Métis culture and a conduit to literacy
(2017)
There exists a common essentialized discourse about Indigenous peoples in Canada that has communities frozen in time, leaving Métis culture represented through sashes, jigging, and the fur trade. However, across the country, ...
"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 ...