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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 ...
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, ...
Experiences of early childhood educators in a nature-based, early learning program: a case study
(2014-12-05)
Across Canada, an interest in connecting people with nature is growing, and much of this interest is focussed on young children. This study, which explores the experiences of two early childhood educators as they piloted ...
Nim-bii-go-nini Ojibwe language revitalization strategy : families learning our language at home
(2010)
The Nim-bii-go-nini Ojibwe Language Revitalization Strategy is a grassroots approach to
language learning that has been in collaborative development and implementation with members
of my family since December 2008. ...
Sustainable happiness in an ecovillage: exploring the impacts of sustainable living on individual happiness
(2017)
While there has been substantial growth in scholarly attention to negative emotional
responses to environmental issues such as climate change, limited research has been conducted
on the converse, such as how environmentally ...
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 ...
The transformative potential of community and collective arts pedagogies in Thunder Bay, Canada
(2017)
This dissertation presents the transformative potential of community art
collectives and outlines the pedagogical practices and decisions that contribute to their
impact in the community. The research took place in Thunder ...
Non-Indigenous educator and Indigenous student relations: rooting ourselves in their values
(2017)
Assimilative and integrative policies remain part of Canada‟s dominant narrative and continue to inform non-Indigenous educators‟ relations with their Indigenous students. Counter narratives of Indigenous student and ...
Female Brazillian students' experiences at Canadian post-secondary institutions
(2017)
This qualitative study investigated the experiences of Female Brazilian international
students studying in Canadian post-secondary institutions. While funds and research have been
invested in the promotion and marketing ...
Reform mathematics teaching and how it helps students understand the concept of area / by Sarah K. Garrett.
(2010)
The focus of this research was to determine the effectiveness of the reform method of teaching in helping Grade 7 students acquire a conceptual understanding of area. A pre-test, intervention, post-test model was used. ...