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2022

MacTaggart, Cory Garnet

According to the 94 Calls to Action, it is vital that educators learn and apply foundational knowledge of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledge systems and perspectives in schools. Thus, students and teachers must have ample opportunities to learn about Indigenous culture from Elders,...

2020-01-01

Gow, Gordon A.

Commercial social media (CSM) play a vital role in support of community outreach and engagement. Despite the apparent benefits of CSM, its widespread use raises important concerns about privacy and surveillance, limits on innovation, and data residency for the organizations that increasingly rely...

2019-03-01

Gow, Gordon A., Chandana Jayathilake, Helen Hambly Odame, Uvasara Dissanayeke, Rob McMahon, Udith Jayasinghe-Mudalige, Nuwan Waidyanatha

This course workbook provides a series of activities and exercises to introduce student practitioners to technology stewardship. It is organized into four sections: Principles and Practices of Technology Stewardship; Engaging your Community and Creating a Campaign; Choosing an ICT platform and...

2021-01-01

Athena Photinopoulos

This paper considers Bolman and Deal’s four frames, as developed in Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (2017), in the context of an academic advisory committee, the Quality Standards Assurance Committee (QSAC), at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The...

Spring 2021

Ma, Angela

All groups have prototypes, “fuzzy sets” of attributes that define the group’s identity. These prototypes are dynamic, creating opportunities for leaders to promote versions of the group prototype that fit their vision for this group’s future. Previous studies have suggested leaders can use...

2022

Prystupa, Kyla Christie

Effective school leadership is important for the overall success of a school and its members. The distributed leadership model is an approach that some school leadership teams have used to build capacity in members of the school community, foster a sense of community, and create better teaching...

2018-05-01

Gow, Gordon A.

This is a video introduction to a Technology Stewardship training program and research project, working with agricultural communities of practice in the Caribbean. Filmed at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Running time: 6:10 min

2022-01-01

Gordon Gow

Leadership for Social Innovation is a complete course workbook created for the Peter Lougheed Leadership College. The workbook takes an evidence-based approach to social innovation through the lens of leadership studies. The workbook contains a series of learning activities including problem...

Spring 2024

Ouyang, Yunzhu

Leadership is a crucial force in shaping group identity and initiating collective changes within groups, particularly during times of uncertainty. The use of affirmations in rhetoric to convey a clear group identity that reduces uncertain feelings can garner more support for leaders when group...

Fall 2021

McNeill, Christopher Ian

This dissertation is an interpretive document on the Leadership Quality Standard policy that was released in Alberta, Canada in 2018. In it, I examine the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities that emerge in this policy document. Using the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans Georg Gadamer I hope...