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Fall 2018
With a focus on the construction of masculinity in relation to confrontational sport, especially ice hockey, this qualitative research explores Chinese Albertan masculinity in day-to-day settings. Data was collected via five in-depth life history interviews. Drawing on leading gender scholar...
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Fall 2009
In many jurisdictions, policies aimed at improving educational processes and outcomes have focused on teacher professional learning. Yet, there is a gap in research concerning teachers’ understandings of their own professional learning as it is influenced by school improvement policies. Using an...
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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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Fall 2012
Many rural Alberta communities face critical issues of sustainability including rural-urban migration by youth and young adults. Drawing on research in Alberta, this thesis identifies the factors influencing rural-urban migration and discusses ways of empowering communities. A survey of youth...
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Fall 2018
Sexual health education in Alberta is a highly contested topic, particularly how inclusiveand comprehensive sexual health education in Alberta should be taught and incorporated in K-12schools. While all students are impacted by the health curriculum, LGBTQ+ students areparticularly vulnerable, as...
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Learning Between the Lines: Non-formal Learning and Citizenship Identity Formation in Schools
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Educational institutions play a key role in how students build citizenship identity. Goals for citizenship education in Alberta are broad, with curricular applications being limited largely to students’ basic knowledge of democratic systems. At present, there are few policies in place to support...
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Reading Between the Lines and Against the Grain: English Language Arts and Social Reproduction in Alberta
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Alberta's 2003 High School English Language Arts curriculum produces differential literacies because it grants some students access to high-status cultural knowledge and some students access to merely functional skills. This differential work reflects an important process in sorting, selecting,...
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The Question Concerning Identification: A Tetradic Analysis of the Alberta Birth Certificate
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One little-noticed yet increasingly vital technology is the birth certificate. The existence of any technology transforms the environment, yet many technologies--just as the birth certificate--remain generally unnoticed or disregarded as neutral. Locating my research within a media ecology...