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- 2Bach, Hedy
- 2Berry, Kathleen Susan
- 2Blackall, Bettina Mary.
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- 2Coles, Janice
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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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(Im)Material Worlds: An Exploration of the Discursive Construction of the Materialities of Fictional Worlds through Information-in-Social-Practice
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The objective of this study is to explore how fictional worlds are constructed and engaged with in tabletop roleplaying games (TRPGs). The research is interdisciplinary in nature, situated in the fields of human ecology and library and information studies to study an everyday life leisure...
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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 2022
Using an online survey, this research explores public opinion related to ethical concerns and the portrayal of human-like characteristics by Virtual Assistants (VAs), such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. This research is centered around two research questions: 1) What ethical concerns, if...
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Fall 2022
This project studied the practice of information sharing in the context of online communities devoted to the preservation of video game mods. My research investigates how these fan communities share and archive challenging content, and how they react to the potential and actual loss of these...
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Networking Albertan Literary History, 1975-1979: A Bibliographic and Social Network Analysis
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Can a bibliographic network identify the major characteristics of a corresponding social network, and what can those networks reveal about Albertan literary history in the 1970s? By combining bibliometric network methods with social network analysis, this thesis attempts to answer the above...
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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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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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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...