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Annie off my mind: heterosexist censorship of adolescent literature in intermediate/senior language arts curricula
(2014-12-11)This qualitative study analyzes the censorship of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) literature in intermediate and senior schools. This research identifies implicit heteronormativity in language arts ... -
Challenged by compassion: an exploration of the lived experience of compassion fatigue among Canadian nurses who worked during COVID-19
(2023)The experience of compassion fatigue is a serious challenge within caregiving professions. Scholars agree that although the symptoms of compassion fatigue are similar to burnout and secondary stress disorder, there is ... -
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 ... -
Ethical considerations for mindfulness in education: prescriptive quick fix or transformational paradigm shift?
(2017)While mindfulness practices have demonstrated utility in bolstering human well-being and functioning, they are certainly not beyond reproach. Purser and Loy (2013) have coined the term “McMindfulness” to refer to instrumental ... -
Mandated citizenship: facilitating and reflecting on the development of citizenship through the Ontario mandated high school community service requirement
(2018)Civic education and community service are widely viewed as worthwhile educational pursuits. Recent Canadian studies have shown that youth are now engaged in voluntary service more than any other age group in Canada. A key ... -
Opportunities for character development in multi-cultural settings
(2018)This dissertation explores character development opportunities in for first-generation Nepali immigrant students, as exemplified in Ontario public school classrooms. The theoretical framework for this dissertation is derived ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Restoring falsifiability to high school physics education
(2021)The idea that scientific theories and conclusions are provisionally true is essential for students to understand. There are limitations as to what passes for science and epistemological limitations to scientific knowledge. ... -
Rethinking radical education : a conceptual analysis
(2006)For decades, there have been concerns with the contemporary Western education system. Many parents are choosing home schooling or schools with alternative programs. During this period, and earlier, reform theorists have ... -
Sky, ground and in-between: metaphysical belief systems that underpin epistemologies of arts-integrating research
(2021)Arts-integrating research is an increasingly engaged practice in educational inquiry, as well as humanities and social sciences. This research approach offers the opportunity to engage creative sensibilities and techniques ...
