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Can education be healing? : adult women's motivations for and experiences with university education / by Janis Cox.
(2009)"Previous research reveals that some women might pursue university education as a means to heal from experiences of violence, poverty, and trauma or to take control over aspects of their identity that have been sublimated ... -
Older people's adaptation to new modes of communication
(2014-12-19)The advances in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the past three decades have served to improve the lives of older persons globally. While this evolution of ICT has in large measure benefited older Canadians, ... -
A Qualitative study on the experiences of students attending Thunder Bay area rural, one-room schools in the early 20th century
(2009-06)One-room country schools, which began appearing in the early 1900s in the District of Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario, Canada, provided educational opportunities to the children of the first and second generation immigrant ... -
A Survey of expatriate teachers in Kuwait
(2009-08)The purpose of this study was to understand why qualified American and Canadian educators left their home country to teach overseas and more specifically, why they decided to live and work in Kuwait. Fifty-one participants ... -
"Welcome to the modern world, painted stick" : postmodern magic in educational virtual reality
(2011)This dissertation endeavours to create a conceptual frameworkwith which to examine “video games as postmodern magic.” I begin by defining the operative understanding of postmodernism for the purpose of this analysis, ...