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Becoming an assistant principal: negotiating identities between teaching and educational leadership
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The question that this study addressed was how Catholic educators from diverse experiential backgrounds negotiate personally persuasive and authoritative discourses in fashioning their identities as assistant principals. The inquiry is framed by poststructuralist perspectives on identity and uses...
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"Identity" Constructions in Online Learning Events: Gender, Subjectivities, and the Productive Effects of Power
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ABSTRACT Advances in computer technology have created powerful opportunities for learners to engage with others, producing very different contexts for learning, and for negotiating our very way of being. Yet, engagement in these virtual learning environments also raises many questions around how...
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La perception des finissants des programmes d'immersion de l'Alberta comme apprenant de langue seconde
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This case study explores French Immersion graduates’ perceptions of how they learned their second language. During this research I interviewed five French Immersion students from Western Canada. The goal of these interviews was to understand and analyze the language learning experiences of these...
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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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Sounding the Impact: A Case Study on the Social and Cultural Work of Music in the Context of the Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society
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The Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society (ERMS) is a volunteer organization that supports Indian classical music, mainly through the act of organizing formal concerts. As a society that is centered on supporting a genre of music that is closely tied to a particular geographical location that is...
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In the Footprints of Our Ancestors: Exploring the Reconnection to my Cree Ancestors (aniskotapanak) and Ancestral Land in the Lesser Slave Lake area
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Abstract This work reveals the relationship between Indigenous people and land, and then speaks to the place for ancestors and Indigenous knowledge in this relationship. It engages with Indigenous Research Methodology that honours Indigenous ways of knowing and being, drawing on the lived...
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Spring 2018
Although the desire is strong among Canadaâs rapidly aging population to age-in-place, research reveals few have adequately prepared their current homes to support them later in life. While environmental gerontologists and occupational therapists have studied the meaning of home and the impact...
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Spring 2020
Applications of formal logic often require the language of the logics to be sufficiently expressive, capturing notions such as necessity, possibility, subject-predicate sentences, quantified sentences, and identity. To this end, logics employ modal operators, first order quantifiers, and an...
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An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into the lived tensions between Familial and School Curriculum-Making Worlds
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This autobiographical narrative inquiry explores my lived experiences in both the familial curriculum-making and school curriculum-making worlds. Drawing on Huber, Murphy & Clandinin’s (2011) reconceptualization of curriculum-making as occurring in two worlds, I inquire into my own tensions and...
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Spring 2014
Adolescents’ safety on the Internet is a prime concern in society. Sexual predators use the online environment regularly to solicit adolescents for sexual purposes; however, we know very little about the experiences of adolescents who become victimized in this way. This research used a thematic...