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Contextualized garden-based mathematics
(2018)Research has investigated the use of locally valued activities to contextualize mathematics for First Nations students; for example, Beatty and Blair (2015), Lipka, Sharp, Adams, and Sharp (2007) , Nicol, Archibald, and ... -
A Creative arts-based approach to using children's rights as a vehicle for tolerance education at the senior elementary school level
(2013-04-10)The following arts-based qualitative research study investigates the potential value of art-based children's rights and tolerance curricula in Canadian schools. The study addresses the question: Are the arts an effective ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Death education : simulating the end of life to beginning healthcare providers
(2015)The national Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada report advocates that professional healthcare education must become even more important for a systems-wide approach to handling hospice palliative and end-of-life ... -
Decolonizing actions that speak louder than words : science education through multiple lenses in Nunavut / by Marc Higgins.
(2010)"Education in Nunavut, still largely based on Euro-Canadian knowledge and Western teachings, is a negative experience for many Nunavut youth - the result of cultural inappropriateness and worldview mismatch. The mismatch ... -
Defining "success" in Indigenous education: exploring the perspectives of Indigenous educators in a Canadian city
(2014-11-28)The purpose of this study was to frame success for Indigenous students in public boards in the experience, knowledge and beliefs of practicing Indigenous educators. Seven Indigenous public school educators in teaching and ... -
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, ... -
Digital Visions: Developing 21st century skills and competencies with the Digital Media Academy
(2018-05-18)This thesis proposes the need for a comprehensive digital literacy program in Ontario schools. A K-12 digital literacy program is essential so that students can grow up with a set of 21st century skills and competencies ... -
Dis-placing Myself: Decolonizing a Settler Outdoor Environmental Educator
(2015)Indigenous communities across Canada are courageously fighting to protect their Lands for future generations. Many settler Canadians are trying to work in solidarity with Indigenous communities to disrupt socio-ecological ... -
Does this count for marks? : a mixed methods analysis of teacher opinion of counting a large-scale assessment toward class grades
(2012-11-10)The objective of this research was to gain insights on teacher opinions related to the practice of counting a portion of a large-scale educational assessment (LSA) for students' grades. [The author] anaylized the responses ... -
E/raced : aboriginal youth identities and schooling
(2009)This qualitative study investigates Aboriginal high school students' negotiation of identity and identifying with school and community in relation to other representations. Within the literature, cultural and racial ... -
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 ... -
Ecological Concept Development at the Elementary School Level
(2012)This case study of one school was designed to examine the level of knowledge and understanding elementary students (ages 9 – 13) have for key ecological concepts that are found in the Ontario 2007 science curriculum ... -
The Education Data Issues Model : using a knowledge mobilization framework to examine teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student learning
(2012-11-10)The purpose of this research was to examine the Education Data Issues Model (EDIM), as a useful conceptual framework through which to study teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student ... -
The effect of removing examinees with low motivation on item response data calibration
(2014-01-22)Many item-response models (IRM) used to estimate student abilities and test item parameters in large-scale assessments (LSA) do not account for the effect of student low motivation. This effect may pose a threat to the ... -
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 ... -
Enriching Communities with Community-based Arts Education
(2015)This research aims to describe the value of community-based arts education. Community-based arts organizations focus on community concerns and issues as well as support individual development (Hoffman Davis, 2010), yet ...
