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Skip to Search Results- 14Shultz, Lynette (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, A. Ali (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- 1Abdi, Ali (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, Ali A. (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Abdi, Ali A. (Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
- 1da Costa, Jose (Educational Policy Studies)
- 1Asadi, N.
- 1Graham, Jackson C
- 1Jorgenson, Shelane
- 1Jorgenson, Shelane Rae
- 1Karsgaard, Carrie
- 1Long, Jordan C
- 2Global citizenship
- 2Higher Education
- 2Higher education
- 2Internationalization
- 2Policy
- 2Post-colonial
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Using international volunteer experiences to educate university students for global citizenship
DownloadFall 2009
Several writers have described the aim of global citizenship education as developing in students a global ethic of social justice. Western post-secondary institutions have endeavored to educate students for global citizenship by traveling to and volunteering in developing countries. Such programs...
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Spring 2015
Tools to think about and interact with the emergence of new levels of interconnectivity and complexity in the post-secondary ethics classroom are necessary. The question explored in this study concerns what relevance cosmopolitanism has as an educational response to this need. Contemporary...
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Spring 2021
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...
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Schooled by Scrolling the Trans Mountain Pipeline? Tracing (Anti)colonial Public Pedagogy on Instagram
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In opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline, overlapping networks of concerned citizens, Indigenous land protectors, and environmental activists have used Instagram to document pipeline construction, policing, and land degradation; teach using infographics; and express solidarity through artwork...
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Policy from below: Foregrounding teacher experiences of hardship in remote rural secondary schools in Kenya
DownloadFall 2011
Teacher shortage for schools in remote rural areas (also called hardship areas) in Kenya, as in other parts of the world, is a recurrent problem. Such shortage is problematic as it exacerbates the educational disadvantage of such areas, already disadvantaged with regard to access to schools,...
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Spring 2015
This dissertation is an organisational case study of the legitimacy behaviours of two Outreach schools in Alberta, Canada. The study used Organisational Theory to examine how institutional processes, policies and practices impacted alternative education and in what way members of these schools...
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Fall 2013
Although Vietnam has made notable progress in terms of economic development, the transition from a social to market-based economy has exacerbated education accessibility and availability for individuals who are living in poverty. In efforts to unearth the educational experiences and views of...
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Identity, conflict and radical coalition building: a study of grassroots organizing in Northern Ireland
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Coalitions in Northern Ireland have been organizing across the ethno-nationalist divide for decades. Yet, while empirical research has addressed challenges of, and potential for, organizing across ethnonationalism, the ways in which coalition members attend to their complex subjectivites have...
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Horizons of Belonging: Co-Creating Transformative Indigenization and Internationalization in Higher Education
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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...
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From Recognition to Knowledge Creation: Education of Refugee Youth Learners in Alberta and British Columbia
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Educational success for many refugee learners in the Canadian education system has been a difficult if not challenging achievement. Educational institutions mirror the values and practices of the larger society. Similar to the values and practices nationally and internationally, in educational...