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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

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...

Spring 2021

Shwetz, Jennifer

Neurodiversity is a recent term used to signify a diversity of thought for individuals with intellectual diagnoses such as autism and ADHD. This is a significant shift from historical conceptualizations of these conditions, which were ground in medical or charity models, and supported a...

Fall 2021

Tkachuk, Tammy Lynn

In the fall of 2016 I began working at a small elementary school in rural Alberta. As both the principal and a teacher in the school, I set about making changes designed to meet the Calls to Action of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission while also opening up our classrooms to Indigenous...

Spring 2021

Witiw, Taylor Kermit Christopher

Transnational corporations promise win-win development, but extractive projects often deliver dispossession, displacement, impoverishment, environmental degradation, and disrupt social relations in rural localities. These conditions can in turn engender contestation and resistance to...

Spring 2021

Farnel, Sharon

Digital libraries are online environments for organizing, sharing, and providing access to resources in digital form. Ideally, their content, functionality, organization, and metadata should reflect the needs, interests, and contexts of the communities they are meant to serve. Indigenous...

Spring 2021

Schultz, Christie

In the wake and work of present-day social movements, on our campuses and beyond, there is growing recognition that, as academics, we ought to care—not just for our research and our students, but also for each other and our communities more broadly. Indeed, it has been and remains critical that...

Spring 2021

Lavoie, Michelle Mary Anne

For trans and non-binary young adults, impoverished social support hampers positive identity formation and can have lifelong consequences. Mentorship may provide a platform to voice often silenced stories and counter hegemonic narratives such as hetero- and cisnormativity. Despite its potential,...

Spring 2021

Riep, Curtis

The notion of education as being part of the “commons,” as a societal or public good, is slowly giving way to pressures of marketization, privatization, and commodification—and thus, re-imagined, reconfigured, and re-appropriated as an object of trade, increasingly for sale, based on individual...

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...