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International dimensions of higher education in nursing in Canada: Tapping the wisdom of the 20th century while embracing possibilities for the 21st century
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Paul, P., Ogilvie, L., Burgess-Pinto, E.
New focus on the internationalization of universities occurred in the late 20th century and higher education in nursing has been quick to embrace the opportunities. In this manuscript, writers provide a brief overview of the nursing and more general literature from the late 20th century relating...
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Fall 2009
Using Roberts’ seven science curriculum emphases as a framework, an investigation into Alberta’s physics program-of-study revealed pre-service, novice, and experienced teachers tended to focus on the emphasis Structure of Science. Other aspects of the program-of-study that was a high priority for...
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Curriculum and the foreign language student: interpretive approaches to understanding the postsecondary study of German in Canada
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In this dissertation, I use a hermeneutic framework drawing on critical and postcolonial theory and interpretive inquiry (narrative analysis) to explore the postsecondary curriculum for German as a foreign language and culture (GFL) in Canada, its history, and its current manifestation, in...
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Investigating secondary science teachers’ beliefs about what counts most as science education.
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This research aimed to investigate Alberta science teachers’ beliefs about ‘what counts most as science education’. By implicating teachers’ beliefs in discussions about the science curriculum-as-planned by program developers and the science curriculum-as- lived in the classroom, factors...
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Fall 2011
With many current initiatives to promote information literacy, it is necessary to assess the state of information literacy instruction in secondary school and the factors influencing information literacy. Teachers have the opportunity to instruct information literacy (IL) yet students enter...
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Policy from below: Foregrounding teacher experiences of hardship in remote rural secondary schools in Kenya
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Teacher shortage for schools in remote rural areas (also called hardship areas) in Kenya, as in other parts of the world, is a recurrent problem. Such shortage is problematic as it exacerbates the educational disadvantage of such areas, already disadvantaged with regard to access to schools,...
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2012-08-31
Schneider, Phyllis, Hedley, Kristen, Skoczylas, Melissa
Both academically and socially, the school context is a very language intensive environment. These language demands are amplified for students with language impairments. “Inclusion” is a growing force driving recent educational theory and policy. If students with language deficits are not...
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Fall 2012
This study, primarily theoretical in nature, explores a philosophically and pedagogically reasonable way of addressing nature of science (NOS) in school science. NOS encompasses what science is and how scientific knowledge develops. I critically evaluate consensus frameworks of NOS in school...