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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 4Early Childhood Education
- 2Plains Cree
- 1Alberta Day Home Agencies
- 1Bicultural Children
- 1Canadian
- 1Case Studies
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Exploring Parental and Instructor Perspectives of Learning in the Natural Environment for Young Children: A Qualitative Study
DownloadFall 2022
Background: Nature-based or outdoor experiences have important implications for childhood learning and development. Nature-based learning (NBL) utilizes the benefits of nature by weaving the goals of the school curriculum into the natural environment (Larimore, 2016). A paucity in the NBL...
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Parents’ Ethnotheories of their Bicultural Children and of Parenting: Interpretive Case Studies with Three Intercultural Couples in Canada
DownloadFall 2021
I conducted three case studies spanning three different Canadian provinces to explore parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by parent couples in intercultural marriages in which one spouse was Canadian born and raised and the other was foreign born and raised and immigrated to...
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Supporting Quality and Longevity in Alberta’s Family Day Home Educators: A Qualitative Study
DownloadFall 2022
Quality and longevity are two integral components in early learning and childcare. However, for family day home educators working in isolated and decentralized environments, providing quality and longevity in childcare is easier said than done. The current research on early childhood education...
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The image of the child from the perspective of Plains Cree Elders and Plains Cree early childhood teachers
DownloadSpring 2010
This study articulates Plains Cree Elders’ and Plains Cree early childhood teachers’ image of the child. The research was carried out in the spirit of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education—an approach dependent on establishing a locally created image of the child within a...