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Gendered media representations of sexiness and their effects on girls' educational experiences
(2014-12-05)
Using the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay as a case study, this research
focuses on how girls receive, understand, and resist dominant messages of femininity,
heterosexuality, and the body that value sexiness over ...
Enhanced single school model : one Faculty of Education's variation of the professional development school
(2003)
The Enhanced Single School Model (ESSM) was created to provide teacher candidates with an extended practicum during their professional year. It included two core teaching blocks and weekly volunteer time at a single school ...
Relationship between attaining ecological literacy and the development of a sense of community
(2004)
The intent of the study was to examine how attainment of ecological literacy
through experiential learning can be enhanced with the development of a sense of
community. Research was carried out with three classes of ...
Cutting edge controversy: The politics of animal dissection and responses to student objection
(2012-11-10)
This mixed methods study investigated the experiences and perspectives of former Ontario high school students and current Ontario science and biology teachers toward animal dissection, objection to dissection, and choice ...
Coming full circle : non-Aboriginal teachers' narratives of their engagement in urban Aboriginal education
(2012-11-10)
Current Aboriginal researchers address how Eurocentrism construsts and reinforces a set of normative and oppressive "educational" values that do not recognize or include Indigenous epistemologies. A few studies are emerging ...
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 ...
Labyrinth learning : a 360-degree community service digital ecology
(2022)
Labyrinth Learning – A 360 Degree Community Service Digital Ecology is a Master’s
Portfolio organized around the Lakehead Labyrinth Project at Lakehead University’s campus
between 2017-2022. With text, images, video, ...
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 ...
Exploring a school health committee's role in school based health promotion
(2012-11-10)
This study examines the role that a School Health Committee (SHC) plays in enhancing school-based health promotion. Designed in collaboration with the local district health unit to inform practice, a qualitative case study ...
The consumed university: probing neoliberalism in higher educaton
(2018)
This study probes the influence of neoliberal ideas and ideology in Canadian higher
education. In order to examine such an influence, this study subjected the texts and
artifacts from 14 Canadian university recruitment ...










