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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 ...
Cross-cultural Organizations and the Empowerment of First Nations Learners
(2016)
By examining the tensions around First Nations learners wedged between competing organizational visions, this research exposes the conflicting funding enticements that impede maximized empowerment for First Nations adult ...
Mental Health Literacy and Ontario Young People: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(2016)
This study examined the mental health literacy of a group of young people, with particular
interest to their ability to correctly label, identify symptoms, and recommend appropriate help
sources for Major Depressive ...
Understanding Aboriginal music for the understanding of Aboriginal cultures
(2016)
How do Aboriginal musicians and music professionals make connections between their music
and their cultures? This qualitative study explores the interconnections between Aboriginal music
and Aboriginal cultures and ...
Stories of the cystorhood: exploring women’s experiences with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: implications for education, self-perception, and medicalization
(2016-01-05)
The overarching purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of women with PCOS
in more detail to provide further knowledge of the syndrome, to educate others, and
reduce stigma – for all women, with or without ...
Embodied Transformation: Tapping into the Nature of Emergent Learning
(2016)
This dissertation describes a basic qualitative inquiry research study, regarding participant
experiences of an emergent approach to teaching in higher education. Patterns in transformative
meaning-making were a particular ...
Children’s views of the learning environment: a study exploring the Reggio Emilia principle of the environment as the third teacher
(2016)
The purpose of this research study was to explore the concept of the environment as the third teacher and how students in a Reggio Emilia inspired school view their classroom and its ability to help them learn. The research ...
Eco-arts Education: Developing a Connection with the Natural World through Yoga and Mindfulness
(2016)
This research studies how yoga and mindfulness, in an outdoor setting, helps elementary students
connect to and understand the natural world. The four interrelated spheres of holistic
development created as the conceptual ...
Rethinking modern languages and cultures instruction as decolonizing pedagogy
(2016-01-05)
The purpose of this study was to explore secondary modern languages teachers' beliefs about language and their cultural identities, and how these beliefs were embodied in their programs and pedagogical practices. The study ...
An exploration of university students' experiences with depression
(2016)
This thesis explores how university students have experienced depression during their life in an attempt to develop a greater understanding of current mental health issues. Links between depression and schooling were also ...