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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 ...
Multicultural ways of knowing : reading the Kite Runner in a grade 11 class
(2013-02-12)
This qualitative study describes responses of twenty-eight students in a Grade 11 language arts class as they read, The Kite Runner (Hosseini, 2004), and responded to activities in the context of a multicultural unit. The ...
Perpetually "needs improvement": pre-service teachers' knowledge of social justice and education
(2015-08-05)
The author of this thesis uses grounded theory methodology to illuminate pre-service
teachers’ understandings of social justice concepts, theories, and perspectives at the beginning of
their teacher education programs. ...
The wild west of policy making : a discourse analysis of primary and secondary schools' social media policies
(2015-02-02)
Social media has become a technology that is increasingly shaping how
young people connect, socialize, and learn (Ahn, 2011). Many educators and
administrators endeavour to understand how this communications tool has ...
Narrating activist education: teachers' stories of affecting social and political change
(2015-01-13)
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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 ...
Masculinity goes to class : gender performances and anti-oppressive perspectives in a secondary classroom
(2013-04-10)
This research explores the complicated terrain of secondary school mates' masculinity and the ways they make sense and meaning of these identities in the socio-political context of a feminist, anti-oppressive teacher's ...
In through the outdoors: exploring the role of facilitated wilderness experiences in shaping my understanding of self and my relations with other people and the other-than-human world
(2014-12-11)
I examine the role of facilitated wilderness experiences in shaping my understanding of self in relation to people and the other-than-human world through a critical qualitative approach using auto-ethnography to engage ...
Mental Health Literacy and Ontario Young People: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(2016)
This study examined the mental health literacy of a group of young people, with particular
interest to their ability to correctly label, identify symptoms, and recommend appropriate help
sources for Major Depressive ...
Anthropocene U: Academic responses and responsibilities at Lakehead University
(2015-06-15)
This thesis explores the stories of six faculty members and administrators at
Lakehead University who are responding to the Anthropocene through their academic
work. Their stories suggest that there are barriers facing ...