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Fall 2019

Zahra Nooruddin Kasamali

This dissertation posits that the false universalism of liberal philosophy shapes common sense approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. Liberal philosophies prefer sameness which results in increased considerations of sameness at the expense of honouring difference. The concern with common sense...

Fall 2019

Tereshchuk, Daniela D'arc Fontenele

Recent rapid changes in immigration intake have impacted education in Canada, particularly in Alberta. As a result of these changes, the student demographic has grown increasingly more diverse. The Edmonton Public School Board, for example, noticed a significant growth in the English Language...

Fall 2019

Crumpton, Jennifer A

Though the world at large is a complex system of interdisciplinarity, secondary classrooms continue to be divided by subject, a modernist orientation, drawing lines between disciplines in lieu of nurturing conversations between them. Ultimately, what results are students who are made to keep...

Spring 2019

Mayar, Ratera

This descriptive qualitative case study investigates the question “In what ways does developing mathematics for teaching through concept study contribute to the professional knowledge and skills of pre-service teachers?” The concept studies were conducted in a classroom driven by five conditions:...

Fall 2019

Shane, Margaret

Conventional wisdom holds that adolescents are somehow naturally adroit at the selection, navigation, consumption, and creation of online texts; that they are more likely to be engaged by multimodal and online texts than by printed material. School boards and the teaching profession are heavily...

Spring 2019

Herrera Farfan, Marcela I

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been widely studied in several foreignlanguage contexts, but little research has been conducted in Latin American countries and noneabout teachers’ perceptions of TBLT implementation in Chile. Thus, this qualitative interpretivestudy seeks to explore the...

Fall 2019

Penelope Jean Stiles

This thesis examines the concept of school leadership and its importance to the dynamics of power, micro-politics, and relationships while embracing an ontology of becoming formed in schools and the current milieu of global neo-liberal education reforms. It has been undertaken as a (re)reading...

Fall 2020

Thomson, Andrew

Heavy metal is a misunderstood genre of music. It is a music of brutality, of savage extremity in its unrelenting attack that pushes the boundaries of the extreme; it is perceived as a rebellious fad in the lives of young people; it has morphed from the stereotypical and dated connections to the...

Spring 2020

Wang, Xiong

Online professional learning communities have become prominent in teachers’ professional development in recent years (Beach & Willows, 2014; Borba & Llinares, 2012; Dash, de Kramer, O’Dwyer, Masters, & Russell, 2012; Trust, 2012). As a new form of them (Trust, 2016), professional learning...

Fall 2020

Lamoureux, Jocelyn

The forces of ever-increasing globalization are impacting everyday life globally and have created a world that is struggling with global issues and related injustices. Global solutions are required to address these issues laden with injustice. Over the last decades, provincial, national, and...