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By no means there yet: centring the voices of Black, Indigenous, and youth of colour climate activists in Ontario
(2024)This critical qualitative inquiry delves into the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and youth of colour activists involved in the climate justice movement. Semi-structured narrative interviews were conducted with 15 ... -
Collaborative professionalism by way of collective efficacy
(2019)This project portfolio explores how, by improving teacher efficacy and enhancing collaborative professionalism, there are accompanying gains in student learning. The project is based around Ontario’s Policy and Program ... -
Gendered media representations of sexiness and their effects on girls' educational experiences
(2014-12-05)Using the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay as a case study, this research focuses on how girls receive, understand, and resist dominant messages of femininity, heterosexuality, and the body that value sexiness over ... -
The Literacy gap: an investigation of the role of hegemonic ideology in literacy education
(2012-11-10)In this research the notion of hegemonic ideology is explored within the stories told by three returning adult students. These students were unsuccessful in attaining literacy skill in their elementary and secondary education ... -
Male outdoor educators’ understandings of masculinity in practice: a North American case study
(2021)This exploratory, single embedded case study examined male outdoor educators’ understandings of masculinity in the field and how such notions impact their practices. Data were collected via interviews (n = 18), observations ... -
Post-secondary education: a bridge out of criminality
(2020)This project portfolio provides a proposed educational program for women transitioning out of criminality. By providing criminalized women with access to post-secondary education, this program seeks to remedy the injustice ... -
Sci-fi movies as gateways to empower women students in higher education
(2020)The purpose of this portfolio is to examine whether using sci-fi movies can affect women students’ self-perceptions about their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ability and career-linked self-perceptions ... -
Supporting transgender, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, and Two Spirit (TGNBGN2S) students in the classroom
(2025)The goal of the research and Portfolio was to create an online training module for teachers that will better educate them on how to support TGNBGN2S students in their classrooms. Studies show that transgender, non-binary, ... -
Throwing their weight around: a critical examination of faculty experiences with challenging dominant obesity discourse in post-secondary education
(2014-12-12)Obesity discourse is dominant in mainstream Western society, and is increasingly identified as a social category that normalizes, privileges, and praises certain bodies while stigmatizing others. Given that weight-based ...
