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- 4Eskimos, Administration by Others
- 4Inuit, Administration by Others
- 4Northwest Territories
- 2Children
- 2Employment
- 2Roberts, Lance W.
- 1Adams, Dennis Lloyd.
- 1Burgess, Arthur C.
- 1Hopper, Tristan D.
- 1Ivanitz, Michele J.
- 1Kingsley, Bethan C
- 3Department of Sociology
- 3Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
- 2Physical Education and Recreation
- 1Department of Anthropology
- 1Department of Physical Education
- 1Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
- 2Spencer-Cavaliere, Nancy (Physical Education and Recreation)
- 1Adamowicz, Wiktor (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 1Boxall, Peter (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 1Candace Nykiforuk, School of Public Health
- 1Danielle Peers, Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
- 1Goodwin, Donna
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1977
Doctoral thesis. An investigation of the effects of wage employment on Inuit from Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay. Specifically focuses on two questions: 1) how are Inuit workers reacting to on-the-job demands of their oil exploration wage employment? and 2) what effect is the massive influx of wage...
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1985
Masters thesis. Provides evidence disconfirming the hypothesis of acculturation through use of testimony given by expert witnesses and community residents at Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. States that government and industry operated within an invalid acculturation framework when dealing with...
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The experiences of children participating in a community recreation program for children of low socioeconomic status
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The purpose of this case study was to explore the experiences of children at a community recreation program for children of low socioeconomic status (SES) using place attachment as the conceptual framework. Place attachment is a framework that allows for an exploration of children’s experiences...
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Spring 2012
This study explored how seniors experience casino gambling and how they manage risks associated with casino play. The research focused on the patterns of seniors’ casino gambling, the purposes given for play, how seniors perceive and manage risk associated with casino gambling, and whether any...
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Fall 2018
The overall purpose of this dissertation research was to gain a better understanding of the meaningful engagement of youth at risk in recreation and leisure contexts. To address this purpose, three studies were conducted. The first study completed explores how youth-led leisure opportunities can...
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It Might Be ‘Us’ Not ‘Them’: An Autoethnographic Reflexion of Ableist Practices in Adapted Physical Activity
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Adapted physical activity (APA) is an area of scholarship and professional practice situated across the medical, social, and most recently, resistance and radical models of disability. As APA scholars begin to shift towards more critical and social justice lenses of disability and movement...
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Inuit recreation and cultural change [microform]: a case study of the effects of acculturative change on Tununirmiut lifestyle and recreation patterns
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Investigates contemporary Inuit recreation patterns as results of intercultural contact between traditional Tununirmiut Inuit and Euro-Canadian cultures in the NWT.
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Fall 2021
In recent years, both recreation scholars and practitioners began calling for a sectoral return to municipal recreation’s historical roots as a public good (e.g., Mahaffey, 2011; ISRC & CPRA, 2015; Cureton and Frisby, 2011; Smale and Reid, 2002; Taylor and Frisby, 2010). Blaming neoliberal...
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Exploring the Meaning and Experiences of Recreation for Young People and Parents Living with Lower Incomes
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The purpose of the research was to explore the meaning and experiences of recreation for young people and parents who live with lower incomes in a predominantly affluent community. I responded to the research purpose by speaking with ten youth (aged 13-18 years) and six parents living with lower...