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The culture of rape: examining causes and educating for a rape-free society
(2014-12-05)
This thesis explores factors, influences, and causes of rape through social constructivist and feminist lenses, and makes recommendations for improving sex education to address and challenge rape myths and rape culture in ...
Social justice and equity : exploring the perspectives of senior administrators on whiteness and racism in postsecondary education
(2015-08-05)
This study explored senior administrators‘ perspectives on Whiteness and racism in postsecondary education. The study focused on Canadian senior administrators at postsecondary institutions located in 2 provinces and in 2 ...
Evaluation and assessment in teacher education : an analysis of the assessment culture of an Ontario initial teacher education program
(2013-02-21)
The Ontario Ministry of Education, with the shortest teacher evaluation programs in the nation, is proposing changes to the two-semester teacher education "Professional Year" in favour of a longer program. Rather than ...
Multicultural ways of knowing : reading the Kite Runner in a grade 11 class
(2013-02-12)
This qualitative study describes responses of twenty-eight students in a Grade 11 language arts class as they read, The Kite Runner (Hosseini, 2004), and responded to activities in the context of a multicultural unit. The ...
Perpetually "needs improvement": pre-service teachers' knowledge of social justice and education
(2015-08-05)
The author of this thesis uses grounded theory methodology to illuminate pre-service
teachers’ understandings of social justice concepts, theories, and perspectives at the beginning of
their teacher education programs. ...
The wild west of policy making : a discourse analysis of primary and secondary schools' social media policies
(2015-02-02)
Social media has become a technology that is increasingly shaping how
young people connect, socialize, and learn (Ahn, 2011). Many educators and
administrators endeavour to understand how this communications tool has ...
Inuit visions for schooling in one Nunavut community
(2009-06-25)
This descriptive case study explores Inuit visions for schooling in a remote community in
the Qikiqtani (formerly Baffin) Region of Nunavut. I use information from interviews, casual
conversations, observations, and a ...
Narrating activist education: teachers' stories of affecting social and political change
(2015-01-13)
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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 ...
Masculinity goes to class : gender performances and anti-oppressive perspectives in a secondary classroom
(2013-04-10)
This research explores the complicated terrain of secondary school mates' masculinity and the ways they make sense and meaning of these identities in the socio-political context of a feminist, anti-oppressive teacher's ...