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Fall 2023
This thesis explores the results of and claims made about the experimental 1963 literacy program operated in the small Brazilian town of Angicos, Rio Grande do Norte. This program was where the renowned pedagogue Paulo Freire’s literacy methods were first attempted at a large scale using...
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2016-01-05
New learners of a subject seem to love examples, and always want more of them during their process of learning. Examples are great because they demonstrate how to solve problems: they offer guidance on processes with respect to styles of problems. A commonly held misconception is that people will...
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Undergraduate Writing Assignments: Learning Genres Across the Curriculum
2012-03-10
Presentation at the 4th Annual Research Showcase on March 9, 2012, Edmonton, Alberta. A brief introduction to PhD research case study of disciplinary writing assignments at the University of Alberta
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Spring 2022
Abstract Literature has the power to change lives. Most English teachers trust this to be true. But while there are numerous arguments, of varying merit, that defend literature on cognitive grounds, few studies convincingly point to the underlying mechanisms of what makes it ‘work,’ or explain...
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To what end? An analysis into the relationship between neoliberalism and desire in education
Download2020-04-04
Twentieth century post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide a lens by which desire and its role in education can be analyzed. This analysis is done in the hope of understanding some of the ways by which our desires are manufactured, singularized, and then leveraged in the name...
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2018-02-13
SSHRC PGLOI|Stage 1 awarded 2018: When history education in Canada was first designed at the end of the nineteenth century, it was part of a nation-building project shaped by competing interests of Anglophone Canada and Francophone Québec. Although history and social studies curricula and museum...
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2018-10-29
SSHRC Awarded PG2 2019: When history education in Canada was first designed at the end of the 19th century, it was part of a nation-building project shaped by competing interests of Anglophone Canada and Francophone Québec. Indigenous peoples and their histories were completely omitted,...
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2016-02-15
SSHRC PG LOI|Stage 1 awarded 2016; Stage 2 not successful: Canada has long struggled with questions of national identity as a result of contested ground over the stories told about its past. Struggles over sovereignty by Quebec Francophones and Indigenous peoples, as well as the continued...
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1998-01-01
Campbell, Katherine, Ben-Zvi, Ehud
This article describes the re-design and evaluation of a full-year undergraduate course, An Introduction to the World's Religions, from a traditional lecture-based model to a Web-based format. The highly personal and valuative nature of the course content, as well as large class size and lack of...
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The social-psychological process involved in using human patient simulators as a teaching/learning modality in undergraduate nursing education
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The use of the high-fidelity human patient simulator (HPS) based clinical scenario in undergraduate nursing education is a powerful learning tool well suited to modern students’ preference for immersive construction of knowledge through the provision of contextually rich reality-based practice...