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Native Hawaiian Responses to 18th and 19th Century Leisure Discourses and their Haunting Consequences
Download2015-01-21
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2015: The project focuses on historical analysis of indigenous Hawaiians' [Kanaka Maoli] submissions to Hawaiian language newspapers (1834 - 1948). In 19th century Hawaii, missionaries' leisure-discourses were intimately connected with colonial structures and judgments about...
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2011-11-28
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: The proposed research addresses the consistency and accuracy of classification results produced by a cognitive diagnostic assessment. The objectives of the proposed research are to (1) evaluate the strengths and limitations of our two new statistical indexes in applied...
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Outdoor Education in Canada: Guiding Philosophies, Distinguishing Characteristics, and Central Goals
2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Outdoor education (OE) is an academic discipline and a teaching method characterized by experiential learning, immersion in nature, and challenging activities. However, OE varies across countries in terms of its philosophies, characteristics, and goals. OE in Canada lacks a...
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2012-01-29
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: This research project seeks to reconstruct the milieu of post-war film lecturing in Canada and U.S. by piecing together the careers of individual filmmakers, delving into the histories of exhibition sites and booking agencies while also probing the collections of museums,...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Although bankruptcy should not be a side effect of sickness, many Canadians are pushed over this financial precipice by an illness or injury. Public programs, such as the federal employment insurance sickness benefit and provincial workers' compensation programs, are...
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2017-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018. The study builds on two exploratory community-based, participatory research (CBPR) projects with Syrian refugees. Guided by CBPR, and using ethnographic data collection and analysis methods, we examine the psychosocial adaption and integration of 8 diverse Syrian refugee...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Participation in youth sport has been associated with a range of emotional, social, physical, and cognitive benefits. Similarly, participation in school sport has been associated with several educational benefits, including increased educational attainment and likelihood...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: We propose to examine how Science- and Mathematics- textbook authors position themselves in relation to their hopes and challenges. In particular, we are interested in how the material they write might be a force or influence relating to their hopes (and challenges),...
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2017-10-04
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: In this proposed research, I provide new economic insights on the trade-offs between efficiency gains and potential social costs in two concrete cases of technological development and new regulation: central bank digital currency (CBDC) and position limits. While these are...