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Fall 2021

Ingraham, Kenchera. Curlene

Background: The voices and experiences of black women in higher education in Canada have largely been absent. When they do speak out against institutional structures or challenging issues of power, they encounter issues of colonialism, racism, gendering, silencing, and othering. Such experiences...

Spring 2020

Revitt, Eva Justyna

I locate this study within the context of my own work and experiences as an academic librarian and the disconnect that I have often felt between what I consider my role and the value of my work to be versus the perception and understanding of that role, the work, and its value by others....

Fall 2020

Thompson, Leanne T.

One of the most important responsibilities parents take on is deciding where their children will be schooled. Alberta offers the most choices of schooling types in Canada, including public, separate, charter, private and homeschooling (Bosetti & Gereluk, 2016). Parents engage in information...

Spring 2020

Everitt, Lisa Meredith

Publicly funded charter schools in Alberta were created by the Alberta legislature in 1994. The stated rationale for charter schools was that parents and students needed more choice within the public education system (Alberta Education, 2011). However, at the time that charter schools were being...

Fall 2020

Gregory, Emily Margaret

Employability is one’s ability to obtain and maintain employment, and employability skills are the skills that support this goal, such as working with others and communication. Government, employers, and students expect higher education institutions to prepare graduates for the world of work....

Fall 2020

Brown-McLaughlin, Simone

Over the past forty-seven years, thousands of temporary foreign migrant workers have been arriving in Canada annually, to labor in sectors of precarious work including farming, caregiving and the service sector given the demand from employers seeking cheaper sources of labor or for work that...

Spring 2020

Vandervinne, Sipko

Tacit knowledge and tacit knowing are intricately bound with one another. They are the background to what is known explicitly. Polanyi’s ideas open a way to understanding how knowledge is known and questions the core of dualist thinking. These ideas conceptualize knowledge as constructed from...

Fall 2020

Connauton, Joshuha Johan

Literature and theory have shown that the racially marginalized student experience in higher education is unique. This experience has been characterized by societal inequities that contribute to the marginalization of racialized people. This thesis set out to understand the research questions: 1)...

Fall 2020

Khakh, Anita

Scholars have argued that anti-obesity health discourses currently pervade Canadian schools and detrimentally impact students’ mental and physical health (Robertson & Scheidler-Benns, 2016). Although schools across the country ubiquitously deploy these discourses, it is important to understand...

Fall 2019

El Bouhali, Chouaib

Internationally Educated Teachers (IETs) seek active participation in the labor market as they come to Canada with a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience, which are significant human capital resources. Canada has been a lead in developing bridging programs for immigrant professionals that...