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Fall 2023

Sharek, Jonathan P

The education and preparation of pre-service teachers for K-12 classrooms remains a widely discussed area of education literature. Expectations are high for new teachers to be capable to manage contemporary classrooms as they replenish the profession. The practicum is widely acknowledged to be...

Fall 2023

Fankah-Arthur, Hilda

This study explains the influence of African Indigenous Knowledge in the education and identities of Black African Immigrant students within Canada’s Multiculturalism. Black African immigrant student’s identities are formed and shaped by their Indigenous experiences, which influences their...

Fall 2023

Denga, Benjamin

This study critically interrogates the gaps between policy claims on equitable internationalization and the ground-level realities of Black African graduate international students in a Canadian Public University. The attraction and retention of international students is vital to Canada’s future...

Fall 2023

Allan, Katherine A

Faculty members play a critical role in upholding the academic mission of institutions of higher education and are integral in supporting student success. It is widely understood that new faculty struggle and as incoming cohorts of new faculty become increasingly diverse, their unique challenges...

Fall 2023

Wang, Zhongrui

Because of the development of digital technology, social media is becoming an indispensable software in everyone's mobile phones and computers. The rise of social media has led educators and learners to explore the possibilities of integrating it into the field of learning. Social media's unique...

Fall 2023

Wolfstone, Irene Wiens Friesen

This dissertation project builds on the hope expressed by United Nations Secretary-General Guterres that a new world is taking shape as young people push their elders to do what is right in response to climate change. The goal of this research is to contribute new knowledge to facilitating...

Fall 2023

Reed, Kelsey Erin

This study examined the experiences of identity development in urban Indigenous survivors of the Child Welfare System, the ways in which their Indigenous identity developed, and how they did/did not feel supported. In this study I interviewed three Indigenous women who were involved with the...

Fall 2022

Dahl, Jenna E.

The demographic of students accessing post-secondary education has changed significantly over time. As continues to be true over time, the average undergraduate student today is born of a different generation than those before it and therefore likely motivated by different things than those...

Fall 2022

Sumaru, Ashima

This thesis examines the adoption of intersectional policy analysis within governments and governmental bodies in Canada, focusing on the years 2019-2020, to understand what led to the adoption of intersectional policy analysis frameworks and what these frameworks accomplish through governments...

Spring 2022

Kemble, Tibetha

Although considerable attention over the past 50 years has been paid to decolonizing First Nations primary and secondary education in Canada, a similar unsettling of colonialism within early childhood education theory, philosophy, and policy has not yet been undertaken. Indeed, and despite...