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Inner City Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Policy Recommendations to Support Delivery of Programs and Services
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Background: In Alberta, and across Canada, health care costs continue to rise at an unsustainable rate. Over the past five years, the cost of delivering healthcare has outpaced the annual rate of inflation by nearly four percent. Health services use is driven by health needs and characteristics...
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Investigating secondary science teachers’ beliefs about what counts most as science education.
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This research aimed to investigate Alberta science teachers’ beliefs about ‘what counts most as science education’. By implicating teachers’ beliefs in discussions about the science curriculum-as-planned by program developers and the science curriculum-as- lived in the classroom, factors...
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Fall 2009
Is there ever a simple place of convergence where two media coexist and interact equally? If one assumes that there is indeed a mental space where media convgerge and are understood simultaneously, what problems arise if an when one medium overrides the meaning of another? It is difficult to...
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Knowing More Than Can be Said: Michael Polanyi, Tacit Knowing, and New Pedagogical Strategies.
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Tacit knowledge and tacit knowing are intricately bound with one another. They are the background to what is known explicitly. Polanyi’s ideas open a way to understanding how knowledge is known and questions the core of dualist thinking. These ideas conceptualize knowledge as constructed from...
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Fall 2015
This thesis is written in two phases. Phase 1 is a critical-historical description of a widely perceived crisis in (South) Korean mothering practices, especially with respect to English as a foreign language (EFL) learning and its implications in the broader spectrum of Korean education. Phase...
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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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Learning Disabilities and Methodologies of Harm: Indigeneity, Pathologization, and Ambiguity in the Psychological Disciplines
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In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the Psychological Foundation of Canada (PFC) issued a joint statement identifying the harms that psychological research and intervention have caused Indigenous communities, while...
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Fall 2020
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Scottish composer James MacMillan wrote a series of pieces using the poetic texts of persecuted peoples in Latin America and liturgical and other sacred texts of the Christian faith. Though Búsqueda and Cantos Sagrados were composed in two distinct genres,...
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Manifestations and Student Awareness of Science Literacy Values in Different Teaching Contexts
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This qualitative exploratory study investigated how one teacher’s view of science literacy was manifested in different classes. Using transcripts of semi-structured interviews and audio/video recordings of classroom and lab activities, one teacher’s professed science literacy values were...
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Spring 2019
Through conducting interpretive case studies on eight Middle Eastern internationalstudents in Canadian universities and drawing on theories of Place and everyday life,Postcolonial theory, and Postpositivist Realist Theory of Identity, this research explores theongoing process of Identity...