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Teacher Faith Education for A Secular Age: Issues in and Insight for Alberta’s Catholic Schools
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In this philosophical study the author investigated the reality of religious pluralism and secularism and their effects on Catholic education in Alberta to provide insight into improvements for teacher faith formation. He used Charles Taylor’s (2007) work, A Secular Age, as a lens through which...
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High School Physics Students’, High School Physics Teachers’, and University Physics Professors’ Conceptions about What it Means to Understand Physics: A Phenomenographic Study
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There is limited literature about what it means to understand physics. Previous research has focused on university physics students’ understanding of physics concepts, but no research to date has examined variations across populations of what it means to understand physics. This study begins to...
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A woman’s place is in the kitchen… unless she’s getting paid. A study of the social and structural dynamics impeding gender equity in the culinary industry
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Kelly Marie Emma Hobbs Bruzzese
While the graduation rate of individuals identifying as female continues to rise dramatically in the culinary world, the top restaurants and hotels are still predominately run by men. Due to this imbalance, this study explores the role of hierarchal and organizations structures in the curation of...
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Fall 2021
The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in 2006 (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, 2018), the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2008, the Calls to Action document in 2015 (TRC, 2015b), and Alberta Education: Teacher (TQS), Leadership (LQS), and...
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Mental health, the sacred, and embodied wisdom: Contemplations on the wholeness and well-being of children
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Mental health concerns are on the rise in Canada and worldwide. The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2030 depressive disorders will be the leading cause of the global burden of disease (World Federation for Mental Health, 2012). Eurocentric medical models rooted in modern...
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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Two Syrian Refugee Families: Searching for Social Inclusion within Schools
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This narrative inquiry explores the experiences of two Syrian refugee families with preschool aged children who arrived in Canada. Narrative inquiry in this study is understood as both methodology and phenomenon under study (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). The study focus is on their experiences...
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Toward an Intercultural Ethics of "Original Difficulty" in ESL Curriculum: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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Global occurrences in recent times have highlighted the degeneration of conversation and relationships at all levels, and the ways that education might disrupt such harmful grammars of engagement have been explored by scholars writing in the field of intercultural communicative competence and...
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Where My edhéhke Take Me In Reimagining Curriculum: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Dene Learning From/With the Land
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nahendeh gozhih gohgha nezu, Land is healing for all. This teaching has been the pivotal component of my (re) searching into Land experiences. As a young girl, my experiences of learning from and with the Land were significant. Today these teachings have helped shape my sense of belonging and...
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Spring 2022
Most immigrants and refugees lose their Heritage Language (HL) within one to three generations of moving to Canada. This study addresses a major gap in language education research about the potential of arts-based curricula to support the HL development and maintenance (HLDM) of multilingual...
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Spring 2022
Abstract Literature has the power to change lives. Most English teachers trust this to be true. But while there are numerous arguments, of varying merit, that defend literature on cognitive grounds, few studies convincingly point to the underlying mechanisms of what makes it ‘work,’ or explain...