Browsing by Discipline
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Dis-placing Myself: Decolonizing a Settler Outdoor Environmental Educator
(2015)Indigenous communities across Canada are courageously fighting to protect their Lands for future generations. Many settler Canadians are trying to work in solidarity with Indigenous communities to disrupt socio-ecological ... -
Does this count for marks? : a mixed methods analysis of teacher opinion of counting a large-scale assessment toward class grades
(2012-11-10)The objective of this research was to gain insights on teacher opinions related to the practice of counting a portion of a large-scale educational assessment (LSA) for students' grades. [The author] anaylized the responses ... -
E/raced : aboriginal youth identities and schooling
(2009)This qualitative study investigates Aboriginal high school students' negotiation of identity and identifying with school and community in relation to other representations. Within the literature, cultural and racial ... -
Eco-arts Education: Developing a Connection with the Natural World through Yoga and Mindfulness
(2016)This research studies how yoga and mindfulness, in an outdoor setting, helps elementary students connect to and understand the natural world. The four interrelated spheres of holistic development created as the conceptual ... -
Ecological Concept Development at the Elementary School Level
(2012)This case study of one school was designed to examine the level of knowledge and understanding elementary students (ages 9 – 13) have for key ecological concepts that are found in the Ontario 2007 science curriculum ... -
The Education Data Issues Model : using a knowledge mobilization framework to examine teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student learning
(2012-11-10)The purpose of this research was to examine the Education Data Issues Model (EDIM), as a useful conceptual framework through which to study teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student ... -
The effect of removing examinees with low motivation on item response data calibration
(2014-01-22)Many item-response models (IRM) used to estimate student abilities and test item parameters in large-scale assessments (LSA) do not account for the effect of student low motivation. This effect may pose a threat to the ... -
Effects of journaling: a study on the benefits of journaling in Chinese adolescents with anxiety
(2021)Academic performance plays a strong role in how Chinese students perceive their success throughout their adolescent years. As a result, this group of young people are left vulnerable to developing anxiety-related issues ... -
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 ... -
Engaging multiple representations in grade eight: exploring mathematics teachers' perspectives and instructional practices in Canada and Nigeria
(2020)This study was inspired by and utilises representations, one of the mathematical learning processes (NCTM, 2000), which is currently acclaimed as one of the reform-based instructional approaches to teaching and learning ... -
Enriching Communities with Community-based Arts Education
(2015)This research aims to describe the value of community-based arts education. Community-based arts organizations focus on community concerns and issues as well as support individual development (Hoffman Davis, 2010), yet ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Examining barriers and facilitators in using teachers’ journals for critical space
(2017)Among the varying ways to reflect on practice, learning journals capture the stories and lived experiences of teachers and help the writer to learn from experience about an event, an idea, or emotions. What does critical ... -
Experience and influence : student and parent perspectives of an alternative school
(2010)Traditionally, education and schooling have been developed by and implemented through the adult perspective. An increasing number of educators and researchers focus on alternatives to mainstream education and this study ... -
Experienced Aboriginal teachers' narratives in the publicly funded school system
(2014-12-18)The lack of literature related to the perceptions of experienced Aboriginal teachers in the publicly funded school system represented a void in knowledge. Within this Indigenous narrative study the Aboriginal teachers ... -
The experiences of bilingual Chinese international students studying in english at a small Canadian university
(2024)This study explores the experiences of ten Chinese students learning in English at a small Canadian university using Linguistic Portrait Silhouettes and semi-structured interviews in a phenomenologically-influenced case ... -
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 ... -
An exploration of mathematics discourse in a reform-oriented classroom and its role in the development of strategies and big ideas in early addition and subtraction
(2015-02-02)The focus of this video case study was to analyze the role of social norms (discourse in a learning community), sociomathematical norms (math discourse in a learning community), and my teaching in facilitating these norms ... -
An exploration of university students' experiences with depression
(2016)This thesis explores how university students have experienced depression during their life in an attempt to develop a greater understanding of current mental health issues. Links between depression and schooling were also ...