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Developing understanding: pre-service elementary teachers' changing conceptions of mathematics
(2014-01-22)
This descriptive case study explores how a conceptual understanding of fractions develops in pre-service elementary teachers enrolled in a reform-based, remedial mathematics skills course set at a middle school level, ...
Throwing their weight around: a critical examination of faculty experiences with challenging dominant obesity discourse in post-secondary education
(2014-12-12)
Obesity discourse is dominant in mainstream Western society, and is increasingly
identified as a social category that normalizes, privileges, and praises certain bodies while
stigmatizing others. Given that weight-based ...
Joining hands in hope: an autoethnographical analysis of a non-Indigenous educator engaging in Indigenous pedagogy
(2014-01-22)
I am a South African who is now a Canadian, with lived experience in both Indigenous contexts. I use these experiences as a springboard into an autoethnography about me as a non-Indigenous educator, understanding authentic ...
Memengwaawid, to be a butterfly: an Indigenous exploration of Northwestern Ontario Anishinawbe and Muskego or Ininiw sacred stories and teachings in a contemporary novel
(2014-12-11)
Among their capacities to entertain, to pass down cultural traditions, ceremonies,
dances, songs, and to correct undesired behaviours, sacred stories explain how something in
nature came to be and how our interactions ...
Mediators' perspectives on the Ontario family mediation process and its potential impact on abused women and children's education
(2014-01-22)
This research focused on the perspectives of seven mediators in Thunder Bay on
what will happen to abused women if the mandatory mediation information program is
actually implemented into the divorce process in Northwestern ...
Who we are is where we come from : a historical curriculum resource for the Pic Mobert First Nation
(2014-01-22)
This qualitative study was undertaken in order to create a curriculum resource for use at the Netamisakomik Centre for Education (K-Grade 8 School) on the Pic Mobert First Nation. The Pic Mobert First Nation is located in ...
Issues and underlying factors relating to the graduation rates of Aboriginal students from mathematics programs
(2014-01-22)
The intent of my research was to shed light on the factors that impede Aboriginal students from finding success in their formal mathematical instruction within the Ontario provincial education system. The goal of my research ...
Critical reflection in the secondary classroom: anti-oppression education
(2014-01-22)
This thesis argues that schools are sites where an ideology of colonialism is reproduced
through the roles of the institution, the educators (and their education), the students and
the absence of an integrated community. ...
Mathematically-based stories in junior classes : do stories change attitudes toward mathematics?
(2014-01-22)
This study explored evidence of a change in students' attitude towards mathematics in junior classes through the use of a mathematically-based stories unit. Using a questionnaire, observations, interviews, and classroom ...
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 ...