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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Hurabielle, Jacques Pierre Emile.
- 2Macris, Vicki
- 2McFadyen, Krista
- 2Pillay, Thashika
- 2Vergis, Elizabeth
- 1Abate, Tsion Demeke
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Exploring international student mobility: neoliberal globalization, higher education policies and Chinese graduate student perspectives on pursuing higher education in Canada
DownloadSpring 2010
With the advent of neoliberal globalization in the 1980s, international student mobility (ISM) has become a significant social and educational phenomenon. Given the increasing magnitude of international student flows from “developing countries” to the “developed” or major member countries of the...
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Spring 2013
My research seeks to understand the experience of students who were labeled with learning disabilities and/or behavioural issues and subsequently transferred to an arts-based school. Specifically, I focused on students’ sense of belonging and self-efficacy, their willingness to take academic...
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Fall 2024
As a high priority of internationalization, international student mobility has transformed the higher education landscape over the last few decades. Although plenty of studies focus on international students’ experiences, less attention was paid to North American students’ learning experiences in...
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Exploring The Role and Experience of Academic Administrators in the Delivery of Experiential Education Programs in Undergraduate Professional Faculties
DownloadFall 2024
While experiential learning is broadly emphasized and implemented in the university setting, there is a scholarship gap regarding the organizational dynamics that impact the academic leaders who are responsible for these programs’ implementation and ongoing support, as well as in how academic...
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Spring 2016
Those concerned with teaching and learning in higher education and the Net generation’s perspectives on and uses of technology must address calls to move beyond the digital native debate (Bennett & Maton, 2010; Kennedy, Judd, Dalgarno, & Waycott, 2010) by asking students directly what they see as...
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Exploring Young Black/ African Canadian Women’s Practices of Engagement and Resistance: Towards an Anticolonial Solidarity Building
DownloadFall 2018
The experiences of young women of Black/ African descent living in Edmonton/ Amiskwaciwaskahikan – in what is currently Canada – are mediated by relations and structures of power as constructed through settler colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism. These political,...