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Exploring Students' Metacognition in the Context of Argumentation (Mc-A) in an Elementary Science Classroom
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The importance of students’ metacognition for their argumentation in science classrooms has been theoretically proposed and widely accepted in the literature. Yet, limited research, especially empirical research, has explored students’ metacognition in the context of classroom scientific...
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Beyond the Workshop: An Interpretive Case Study of the Professional Learning of Three Elementary Music Teachers
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The purpose of this collective case study was to develop a more nuanced understanding of the experiences and professional learning of three elementary music teachers who taught for the same large school board in Alberta, Canada. The interpretive inquiry sought to respond to the following two...
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Stories We Live By, With, and In: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Canadian Muslim Girls and their Mothers
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Drawing upon my experiences as a Canadian Muslim woman, mother, and researcher, I engaged in a two-year multiperspectival narrative inquiry (Houle, 2012; Huber, Clandinin, & Murphy, 2011) alongside three Canadian Muslim girls and their mothers as girl co-inquirers transitioned into adolescence....
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“Don’t Step on Each Other’s Words”: Aboriginal Children in Legitimate Peripheral Participation With Multiliteracies
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This study is an examination of the multiple literacy practices of four Aboriginal children in a Western Canadian prairie urban classroom. It is framed using sociocultural theory that posits that the literacy learning of children occurs in a social environment through a co-constructed,...
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An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Knowledge Construction in an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program
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Immigrant/refugee women may gravitate to the field of early childhood education (ECE) to fill the national and provincial need for teachers (Beach, Friendly, Ferns, Prabhu, & Forer, 2008; CCHRS, 2009) in an occupation that is deemed to be very accessible to newcomers (Service Canada, 2011)....
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Cultural Approaches to Evaluating Indigenous Early Intervention Programs: A Case Study of Aboriginal Head Start
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There is a dearth of research on early childhood development (ECD) programs for Canadian Indigenous children and little has been written about their evaluation; many researchers argue that assessments concerning Indigenous children and programs require culturally appropriate approaches....
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An Exploratory Study of Young Children's Thinking on the Test of Early Language and Literacy (TELL) using Verbal Report Data and a Cognitive and Normative Model of Test Performance
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Early indications of potential school failure include difficulties in early language and literacy development. Thus, prevention and early identification depend on timely and coordinated assessment of language and literacy ability. Despite the critical need, there are no available Canadian...
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Spring 2016
This study sought to explore reading practices in the lives of early adolescent students, from their perspectives, by examining their experiences with reading in their everyday lives. This study was borne out of my deep-rooted curiosity about children’s everyday reading practices, a curiosity...
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Spring 2016
The increased use of digital devices in the home for work, communication, entertainment, and information searching makes these devices attractive to young children, who learn to communicate by observing and interacting with family members. This qualitative study examined 11 Canadian and...
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Multicultural Education and Immigrant Children: The Case of Muslim Children in Canadian Schools
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This study investigated Muslim elementary school students’ classroom experiences in Alberta. The central question of the study was: How do Muslim children experience schooling in Canada? Although existing studies have examined the experiences of Muslim high school, college, and university...