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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...

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....

Spring 2019

Valerie Fisher

The overall aim of this qualitative study was to explore the process of lifelong learning. The purpose was to understand how the perspectives might be used to effectively support Aboriginal adult learners in their self-directed learning. Care was taken to ensure that this research held the...

Spring 2019

Shadi Mehrabi

Through conducting interpretive case studies on eight Middle Eastern internationalstudents in Canadian universities and drawing on theories of Place and everyday life,Postcolonial theory, and Postpositivist Realist Theory of Identity, this research explores theongoing process of Identity...

Spring 2019

Banksland, Roxanna E

The main focus of this research on stereotype threat is how groups and individuals are harmed by negative stereotyping. Negative stereotyping can profoundly alter perceptions of persons stereotyped so they experience alienation, low self-esteem, and hopelessness. Individuals’ achievement and...

Fall 2019

Valentine, Christine

This study examines how educational administrators experience contributing to the public sphere of academic-media discourse. Opinion editorials (op-eds) written by higher education administrators are expressions of administrative praxis that have the capacity to inspire meaningful change in the...

Spring 2019

Shen, Elizabeth D

Visible minority youth face racism daily at micro, mezzo and macro-levels and yet there is a gap in academic research that examines how these students can combat racism, as they experience it at the micro-level, in order to develop pride toward their minority culture and race. As such, this...

Fall 2019

Norma J. Dunning

This study examines the intricacies of southern resident Inuit post-secondary student life in relation to education and the funding stream made available to them. The Inuit students are all beneficiaries of land claims areas but are not residing inside the land claims area that recognizes...

Fall 2019

Hawks, Michelle C.

This dissertation aims to disentangle how the idea of, what I am calling, achievement as accountability has come into being and works within existing deficit narratives around who is seen to be capable in mathematics education. In particular, I interrogate U.S. federal education legislation and...

Spring 2019

Tannis, Derek

Across Canada, post-secondary institutions are embarking in policy-driven strategies to engage Indigenization and internationalization of their campuses. These strategies are tied to national and provincial policies with multiple intent, ranging from increasing fee-paying international student...