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Fall 2023

Wang, Zhongrui

Because of the development of digital technology, social media is becoming an indispensable software in everyone's mobile phones and computers. The rise of social media has led educators and learners to explore the possibilities of integrating it into the field of learning. Social media's unique...

Fall 2023

Sharek, Jonathan P

The education and preparation of pre-service teachers for K-12 classrooms remains a widely discussed area of education literature. Expectations are high for new teachers to be capable to manage contemporary classrooms as they replenish the profession. The practicum is widely acknowledged to be...

Fall 2023

Reed, Kelsey Erin

This study examined the experiences of identity development in urban Indigenous survivors of the Child Welfare System, the ways in which their Indigenous identity developed, and how they did/did not feel supported. In this study I interviewed three Indigenous women who were involved with the...

Spring 2022

Kemble, Tibetha

Although considerable attention over the past 50 years has been paid to decolonizing First Nations primary and secondary education in Canada, a similar unsettling of colonialism within early childhood education theory, philosophy, and policy has not yet been undertaken. Indeed, and despite...

Spring 2022

Durance, Kathleen Rachel

This qualitative study was designed to address gaps in understandings of how school principals experience self-efficacy as instructional leaders of literacy in a context of standardized performance expectations. Anchored in Bandura’s (1977; 1997; 2012) social cognitive theory of human agency, it...

Spring 2022

Feist, Lynn G

The use of learning technologies is prevalent in post-secondary education and can provide opportunities for learning in different ways (Bernardo & Duarte, 2020; Johnson etal., 2014). Integration of learning technologies requires an understanding of learning technologies within the context of...

Fall 2022

Dahl, Jenna E.

The demographic of students accessing post-secondary education has changed significantly over time. As continues to be true over time, the average undergraduate student today is born of a different generation than those before it and therefore likely motivated by different things than those...

Fall 2022

Vega Murillo, Laura

Social learning and the construction of a shared culture and worldview are crucial aspects that shape people’s individual and collective identities, determine their sense of ‘belonging’ to society, and establish difference from others. While adult education can be a self-motivated and...

Fall 2022

Mooney, Julie

For some moving toward reconciliation is controversial; for others acting on decades of talk about reconciliation is long over-due. Debates about Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples have the potential to build or break apart Canada. Institutions of higher education in Canada have a...

Fall 2022

Yaqoob, Banazeer

The Pakistani state increasingly focuses on educating youth as a way to eradicate all fundamentalist violence and nurture critical thinking skills. Parroting the Western imperialist view that books can fight bombs has become a common slogan in Pakistan (Ali, 2010). While these Pakistani state...