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Composing Lives: A Narrative Inquiry into Aboriginal Youth and Families' Stories to Live By
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Throughout my life I have heard stories about what it means to be an Aboriginal person, yet no story captured the richness and complexities of my experience. As an Indigenous scholar seeking a deeper understanding of Aboriginal education in and out of schools, I continue to hear stories about...
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Constructing Collaboration Across Campus: Pre-professional speech-language pathologists and teachers working together
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This thesis project analyzed the efficacy of a single exposure to interprofessional education (IPE) for education and speech-language pathology (SLP) pre-professionals. The effects of IPE were shown through analysis of participant responses related to personal reflections, professional roles,...
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Critical Pedagogical Praxis of Social Justice: Enabling Transformation When Educating for Global Citizenship ̶ A Qualitative Instrumental Case Study
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The forces of ever-increasing globalization are impacting everyday life globally and have created a world that is struggling with global issues and related injustices. Global solutions are required to address these issues laden with injustice. Over the last decades, provincial, national, and...
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Curriculum and the foreign language student: interpretive approaches to understanding the postsecondary study of German in Canada
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In this dissertation, I use a hermeneutic framework drawing on critical and postcolonial theory and interpretive inquiry (narrative analysis) to explore the postsecondary curriculum for German as a foreign language and culture (GFL) in Canada, its history, and its current manifestation, in...
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Curriculum-making worlds: A narrative inquiry into children's experiences outside of school
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Research on children’s curriculum-making experiences as they move from home, school, Out of School Care (OSC) and community activities is sparse. In this study, I worked from a view of curriculum as a course of life (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Clandinin & Connelly, 1992) in order to inquire into...
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Fall 2021
Our world is changing from social, technical, cultural, inclusivity, environmental, risk tolerance equity, and global economic perspectives. We are transitioning to different ways of knowing and working. The societal expectations of engineers and professional engineering are changing. These...
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Digging Up the Roots of Educational Policy: Curriculum Infusion and Aboriginal Student Identity Development
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Since 2002, Alberta teachers have been required to infuse Aboriginal perspectives into the K-12 curriculum across all subject areas in order to positively impact Aboriginal children’s identity development. There are several assumptions inherent in the policy of infusion that this study uncovers...
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Fall 2019
This thesis examines the concept of school leadership and its importance to the dynamics of power, micro-politics, and relationships while embracing an ontology of becoming formed in schools and the current milieu of global neo-liberal education reforms. It has been undertaken as a (re)reading...
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Fall 2009
Policy emphasis on education as a medium to alleviate poverty and to achieve development is this thesis’s topic. Long enforcement of this approach has led us not only to believe in the education-for-prosperity link, but also to reproduce it and create a social system that works in line with it....