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`Canadian-Grown': Student Perspectives About Learning Science in a Culturally Diverse Classroom
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As a result of science being viewed as universal and promoting Eurocentric values, science education has been suggested to be inaccessible for culturally and linguistically diverse students as measured by achievement gaps, poor standardized test results, and racial and ethnic disparities in...
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Spring 2014
South Asians in Canada are increasingly using the Family Class immigration category to sponsor spouses from their home countries. This qualitative study examined the steps family-sponsored spouses and their sponsors or family members have taken to facilitate their linguistic, economic, social,...
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Cultivating Place, Livelihood, and the Future: An Ethnography of Dwelling and Climate in Western Greenland
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In order to investigate how Inuit Greenlanders in western Greenland are experiencing, responding to, and thinking about recent allegedly human-induced climate change, this dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Greenlanders as well as Norse and Danes in the course of past historical...
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Culture and Decision: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Variations in Resource Allocation between European Canadians and East Asians
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People engage in a variety of decision making tasks in daily life, in which people’s experiences and strategies during the decision making tasks are affected by cultural influences. The primary objective of this dissertation was to examine the role of analytic versus holistic thinking styles on...
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Culture and the Complex Environment: Comparing the Complexity Difference between East Asians and North Americans
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Previous cultural research found that East Asian pictorial representations (e.g., paintings) contained more elements than North American ones, and that East Asians were more likely than North Americans to prefer context-rich information to context-impoverished information (Miyamoto, Nisbett, &...
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Culture and the healthy immigrant effect: a multiethnic study of Canadian immigrants' self-perceived health
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I present a qualitative study investigating the self-perceived health of recently arrived Canadian immigrants. The study develops health promotion’s understanding of culture as a social determinant of health, and conceptually locates it within a broader context of psychosocial factors. The study...
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Culture, Ideal Affect, and Ideal Affect-Actual Affect Discrepancies During Leisure and Non-Leisure Episodes
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Affect Valuation Theory (AVT), a relatively new cross-cultural psychological framework, underpins this study. AVT’s key concepts include: ideal affect (i.e., how one prefers to feel); actual affect (i.e., how one actually feels); ideal-actual affect discrepancies (i.e., difference between ideal...
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Deadly Dads: Supports for Nêhiyaw Nâpêwak (Cree men) throughout fatherhood to promote wellbeing—Impacts and understandings from a community-university partnership
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Mosoms and Kokoms (grandfathers and grandmothers) from the Cree communities of Maskwacis, Treaty 6 Territory identified an opportunity to welcome Nêhiyaw Nâpêwak (Cree men) back to ceremony. New interests within the field of maternal health, focusing on the Developmental Origins of Health and...
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Embedded Categories: Three Studies on the Institutional Shaping of Categories and Category Effects
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Over the past fifteen years, a rich program of research has emerged among scholars interested in the role of categories within fields and industries. In this context, studies have shown that categories shape organizational and market processes by grouping firms and products in ways that convey...