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Student and teacher perspectives on choice theory as transformative education: an alternative secondary school context
(2020)
Alternative education suffers from a bad reputation. Many people see these programs and
schools as places where students who are considered to be “disruptive” or otherwise “deficient”
in the eyes of mainstream education ...
Support for, and success of, Indigenous students in access programs at four Canadian universities: educators’ perspectives and practices
(2020)
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada’s recent report on Indigenous Post-
Secondary Education reported that 10% of Indigenous peoples in Canada hold a
university degree, compared to 26% of non-Indigenous people. Yet, ...
Teacher perspectives on community engagement in an international school context
(2020)
This qualitative case study explores teacher perspectives on community engagement
efforts at the International School of Dakar (ISD) in Dakar, Senegal. It examines how teachers
define meaningful and reciprocal community ...
Focusing on the future: Congolese students’ perceptions of and experiences with secondary education in Nyarugusu Camp
(2020)
In Nyarugusu Camp, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, only 7% of youth are
enrolled in secondary school. While literature on refugee education has focused almost
exclusively on organizational aspects of planning ...
The impact of equal sharing and multiple groups problems on students' understanding of fractions
(2020)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the impact of division and
multiplication word problems, namely Equal Sharing and Multiple Groups problems, on
students’ understanding of fractions. Thirteen ...
Indigenous representations in novels used in the Ontario Secondary English classroom
(2020)
This study analyzes representations of Indigenous Peoples in novels used in the Ontario
secondary English classroom. This research identifies the impacts that inaccurate or limited
representations of Indigenous Peoples ...
Engaging multiple representations in grade eight: exploring mathematics teachers' perspectives and instructional practices in Canada and Nigeria
(2020)
This study was inspired by and utilises representations, one of the mathematical learning
processes (NCTM, 2000), which is currently acclaimed as one of the reform-based instructional
approaches to teaching and learning ...
Niizhaaweynima-nimama (Mother Earth Song)
(2020)
This study investigates factors that have contributed to other Indigenous Peoples’
successes at the post-secondary level in graduate studies by interviewing Indigenous People that
have gone through the system and have ...
Bravery, accountability, and praxis: decolonizing international education
(2020)
International education operates in a fundamentally post/colonial paradigm. This study aims to
amplify the voices of a diverse group of students, learning at Green School, Bali (an international
school environment) around ...
Body positivity as public pedagogy? The case of the #effyourbeautystandards movement on Instagram
(2021)
This thesis is a qualitative single-case study of the #effyourbeautystandards Instagram account
and hashtag as a site of public pedagogy. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this study
sought to understand the ...