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Case study of reflections on the implementation of group projects from the perspective of professors at Lakehead University
(2014)
Cooperative learning practices in higher education carry the potential to increase student achievement and to develop social and team work skills valued highly by employers. However, despite an abundance of literature ...
Informal STEM Education for Underrepresented Racial Minorities: Students’ Perceptions of the Imhotep’s Legacy Academy After-school Programme
(2016-01-05)
This study explores students' perceptions of the Imhotep's Legacy Academy After-School
Project (ILASP), an after-school STEM programme offered to Nova Scotian students of African descent. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods ...
Online competency-based resident assessment for the discipline of anesthesiology: a needs assessment
(2019)
In Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) are
implementing a model of competency-based medical education (CBME) for all specialty-training
programs called Competence by Design (CBD). ...
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 ...
A Case Study of Elementary Schoolchildren’s Perspectives on Character: An Exploration using a Children’s Rights Participatory Framework
(2015)
There has been for educators of schoolchildren internationally a renewed interest in ‘character education’ (e.g., Brabeck & Rogers, 2000; Caspo 2001; Covell & Howe, 2001; Halstead & Pike, 2006; Hussar & Harris, 2010; Friday, ...
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 ...
Indigenizing Environmental Education: How can Land-Based Practices become an Educational Journey of Reconciliation?
(2015)
Environmental education today centres on the protection and conservation of land for settler-Canadians. This research explores how including an Indigenous perspective of Land into environmental education can aid non-Indigenous ...
Accommodating Students on Classroom and Large-scale Assessments: Teachers’ Perspectives and Validity Issues
(2015)
The objective of this research was to examine teacher perspectives of accommodation practices
in the classroom, on large-scale assessments, and their effect on the validity of large-scale
assessment data in Ontario ...
Folk schools: slow education for fast times
(2017)
Folk schools are an enduring vision of nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Nikolai Severin Grundtvig. These schools for life offer non-competitive, non-vocational, residential, youth and adult education. This thesis ...
Postmodern imaginative constructivism for STSE understanding
(2014-12-05)
The influences of science and technology on society and the environment (STSE) have
been an integral component of the formal educational curricula for four decades, and yet
industrialized countries frequently struggle ...