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A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy Education
Download2012-10-12
SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.
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2016-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The importance of the body in fashion and the radical adoption of street styles by the elite go back to eighteenth-century Europe. This study examines the effects of the French Revolution on European and American style. It asks how 1790s fashion drastically changed to...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: This project examines informal educational practices based in anti-oppression work done by South Asian Canadians (SAC) with the eventual goal of considering the potential of these relatively neglected sites of reconciliation as models for action in formal institutional...
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09/24/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Videogames offer tremendous potential for more meaningful interactions with music and sound, but in most cases, the role that sound and music plays is subservient to the story or game world, rather than being a point of exploration in and of itself. What if composers...
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2014-01-21
SSHRC Awarded CG 2014: "Auto/biography in Transit" is the eighth biennial conference of the International Association for Biography and Autobiography. The conference gathers together the top scholars from around the world who are experts in analysing autobiography, biography and other forms of...
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09/20/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research proposes to take a tripartite approach to understanding the sources of successes and challenges in the bilingual development of Special Education Needs (SENs). Research will take place in Ottawa and Edmonton; Research in the non-elective bilingual and elective...
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2021-06-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2021: Families and youth who seek services through Catholic Social Services' Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Support programs are looking to reach important life goals such as learning to problem solve, maintain a budget, find and retain employment, or connect with a mentor....
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Canadian adults are well below adults in comparator countries in their ability to use mathematical information (Statistics Canada, 2013). Are French- and English-speaking school leaders any different? That's what our proposed study will find out. Presently, we have almost...
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Comics and the Emotional Situation of Learning to Teach: Collaborative Reading and Encounters with Adolescent Life in Graphic Novels
Download2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Using graphic novels as our objects of inquiry, this project aims to address how the aesthetic experience of reading comics explicitly focused on adolescent life may be enjoyable, educative, and meaningful for adults becoming teachers.
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The goal of this project is to develop foundational knowledge on the applicability of the learning perspective to account for interference phenomena when children perform language activities. We expect to learn more about the appropriateness of interpreting interference...