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Spring 2023
This study explored the use of children’s literature in English-Chinese bilingual education in the Canadian context. The purpose was to examine the types of children’s literature that are used in bilingual education, the roles that children’s literature plays in students’ bilingual and biliteracy...
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Spring 2023
As a kindergarten teacher, I have witnessed many ways that children and parents experience the transition to school—seamlessly for those who seem to fit into classroom rhythms with ease and joy; anxiously and, at times, with resistance for those who have difficulty finding their place. As a...
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School-based outdoor learning in Alberta: Examining K-9 teachers’ success through mixed methods research
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While Western Canada’s landscape is diverse in outdoor teaching environments (Henderson & Potter, 2001; Ho et al., 2017), there is a lack of data identifying school-based outdoor learning (OL) experiences (Fägerstam, 2012; Landy, 2018) in K-9 classrooms. This research examines factors that...
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Co-Composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula: A Narrative Inquiry into Student Teachers’ and a Teacher Educator’s Experiences
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What is knowledge? Whose knowledge matters? How can we build connections with people, share knowledge, and promote one another’s growth? These and many other wonders were embedded in my tension-filled stories about knowledge, curricula, and communities, both as a university teacher of English in...
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Exploring Secondary Discipline-Specialist Teachers’ Engagement with Discipline-Specific Texts
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The purpose of this multiple case study, framed by sociocultural theory, was to explore how secondary discipline specialists engage with discipline-specific texts. When teacher specialists read discipline-specific texts they may not be able to articulate all their metalinguistic awareness. By...
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An Arts-Informed and Play-Based Case Study of Young Newcomer Children's Everyday Lives, Experiences, and Perspectives
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The purpose of this qualitative arts-informed and play-based case study was to explore and better understand how young newcomer children use common childhood activities of play and personal art-making as tools or vehicles of communication, for exploration of their ideas and sharing perspectives,...
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Parents’ Ethnotheories of their Bicultural Children and of Parenting: Interpretive Case Studies with Three Intercultural Couples in Canada
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I conducted three case studies spanning three different Canadian provinces to explore parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by parent couples in intercultural marriages in which one spouse was Canadian born and raised and the other was foreign born and raised and immigrated to...
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Fall 2021
A primary goal of physical education (PE) is to instill in young people a lifelong commitment to physical activity. However, not all current forms of PE are achieving this goal (Dyson, 2006; Kirk, 2010). Students claim that PE often lacks personal meaning and is detached from their lived...
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Inquiring into the Roles and Responsibilities of Facilitating Loose Parts Play: A Practitioner's Perspective
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Play, and more specifically unstructured outdoor play, is well-documented as being beneficial, and arguably essential to healthy cognitive, emotional, social and physical development. However, factors such as risk, liability and self-regulation often complicate and deter unstructured outdoor play...
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Critical Components for the Successful Implementation of Mental Health Promotion Programs in Secondary Schools: A Scoping Review
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The alarmingly high number of mental health challenges in Canadian adolescents continues to be a cause of concern for educators, health care providers, and related stakeholders (CMHA, 2019). Although recent shifts in supporting mental health have transitioned from a targeted, problem-focused...