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Skip to Search Results- 14Shultz, Lynette (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, A. Ali (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- 1Abdi, Ali (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, Ali A. (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, Ali A. (Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- 1da Costa, Jose (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Asadi, N.
- 1Graham, Jackson C
- 1Jorgenson, Shelane
- 1Jorgenson, Shelane Rae
- 1Karsgaard, Carrie
- 1Long, Jordan C
- 2Global citizenship
- 2Higher Education
- 2Higher education
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Using international volunteer experiences to educate university students for global citizenship
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Several writers have described the aim of global citizenship education as developing in students a global ethic of social justice. Western post-secondary institutions have endeavored to educate students for global citizenship by traveling to and volunteering in developing countries. Such programs...
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Identity, conflict and radical coalition building: a study of grassroots organizing in Northern Ireland
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Coalitions in Northern Ireland have been organizing across the ethno-nationalist divide for decades. Yet, while empirical research has addressed challenges of, and potential for, organizing across ethnonationalism, the ways in which coalition members attend to their complex subjectivites have...
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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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Fall 2013
Although Vietnam has made notable progress in terms of economic development, the transition from a social to market-based economy has exacerbated education accessibility and availability for individuals who are living in poverty. In efforts to unearth the educational experiences and views of...
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(De)colonizing global citizenship: a case study of North American study abroad programs in Ghana
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Over the last few decades, the concept of global citizenship has emerged in policies and vision statements of higher educational institutions without clarity of what it means or how to educate for it. In North America the discourse of global citizenship study abroad has become increasingly...
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Spring 2015
Tools to think about and interact with the emergence of new levels of interconnectivity and complexity in the post-secondary ethics classroom are necessary. The question explored in this study concerns what relevance cosmopolitanism has as an educational response to this need. Contemporary...
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Fall 2015
The purpose of this study was to trace how relationships between global, national and local policy spheres are enacted as actors assemble in educational governance through their engagement with internationalization policy. Based on this purposes, the following research questions were addressed:...
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Spring 2015
This dissertation is an organisational case study of the legitimacy behaviours of two Outreach schools in Alberta, Canada. The study used Organisational Theory to examine how institutional processes, policies and practices impacted alternative education and in what way members of these schools...
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An Interpretive Analysis of Educational Administrators' Perspectives of Democracy and Citizenship Education in Albertan Public Schools
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Little is known about the effects of public school educational administrators’ perspectives on democracy and citizenship education on the pedagogy and learning of the same topics within the school buildings that they lead. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to better...
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From Recognition to Knowledge Creation: Education of Refugee Youth Learners in Alberta and British Columbia
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Educational success for many refugee learners in the Canadian education system has been a difficult if not challenging achievement. Educational institutions mirror the values and practices of the larger society. Similar to the values and practices nationally and internationally, in educational...