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Resisting positivism: unfolding the epistemological basis of two arts-integrating research methodologies, arts based research and a/r/tography
(2015)
How may an arts practice be considered a research methodology? This thesis examines two arts integrating methodologies, arts based research and a/r/tography, to uncover their epistemological constructs and philosophical ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lesbian and gay male identity development and online communities
(2012)
The aim of this study is to broaden the understanding of how online resources including
blogs, chats, websites, and social networking can help support identity formation in lesbian and gay people. More specifically, my ...
Mediators' perspectives on the Ontario family mediation process and its potential impact on abused women and children's education
(2014-01-22)
This research focused on the perspectives of seven mediators in Thunder Bay on
what will happen to abused women if the mandatory mediation information program is
actually implemented into the divorce process in Northwestern ...
The impact of the teacher's questions on the learning of part-whole relations and a benchmark model in fractions
(2015-06-15)
The focus of this case study was to explore how my questions as a teacher impacted my students‟ construction of part-whole relations and their use of a benchmark model in learning fractions. The research conducted ...
"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, ...
Preservice teacher beliefs about teaching language arts and literacy
(2012-11-10)
Preservice Teacher Beliefs about Teaching Language and Literacy describes the findings of a qualitative study conducted with a Junior/Intermediate language arts methods course in a Faculty of Education at a University in ...