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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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L’utilisation du discours dialogique dans la construction du savoir mathématique des élèves dans le contexte d’enseignement en immersion
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In 2007 Alberta Education began implementing a new mathematics program aligned with the principles and standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM, 2000). The new curriculum places great emphasis on students’ communicating their cognitive processes while they acquire...
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Language Appropriation in New Religious Movements: Identity, Conflict, Boundaries, and Pejorative Terms
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As a broad classificatory category, new religious movements (NRMs) refers to groups as varied as they are unorthodox. As diverse emergent agents of restoration or change, the social transformations that their doctrines promote and behaviors achieve vary in both articulation and form. To cope with...
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Fall 2023
Previous research indicates that knowledge about sociocultural norms affects language processing immediately and automatically. One such example is the Stereotype Effect, where sentences containing violations of gender stereotypes take longer to read and are rated as less appropriate than...