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Spring 2017
In this study, the textually mediated processes of applying to a Canadian university are explored from the standpoint of international graduate students. As reduced government support makes universities in Canada increasingly reliant on differential fees paid by international students, there is...
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Living Well with Others: Exploring Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Higher Education
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Many Canadian scholars and institutions of higher education are embracing community-engaged scholarship (CES). However, the conceptual foundations and purposes informing CES remain ambiguous. As a result, CES is marked by confusion and contested practices, demonstrating the need to move to a more...
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Fall 2012
Interest is growing in early learning experiences and in the quality of the child care young children are receiving. In 2005, the Alberta government introduced a voluntary child care accreditation program, the first of its kind in Canada. The purpose of this research is to describe how the...
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Navigating the Aspirational City: Orders of Worth, Urban Renovation, and Educational Culture in Post-Socialist Urban China
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In this dissertation I present an account of the educational culture of a single city in north-central China. I use ethnographic methods to explore the perspectives of middle class parents on the meaning and purpose of “education” and the educational activities in which they engage. As this is...