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2019-01-01
McFeetors, P. Janelle, Higgins, Marc, Candler, Alexandra, Boffa, Adriana
Background: This project is situated within an educational landscape in which board games are becoming a more popular medium through which to engage in processes and practices of serious play. After studying the design diaries of two game designers, we turn to what we can learn through play with...
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2019-01-01
Peck, Carla, Battiste, Marie, Clark, Penney, Dagenais, Maxime, Duquette, Catherine, Gibson, Lindsay, Leighton, Jacqueline, Llewellyn, Kristina, Sears, Alan
The overall goals and objectives of the proposed partnership are to nurture a community of inquiry among academic historians, researchers based in faculties of education, Indigenous scholars, graduate students, educators in museums, archives, and historic sites, and practicing teachers to: • map...
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2019-01-01
Hudson Breen, Rebecca, Holt, Regan, Larsen, Denise J., Edey, Wendy, Hobbs, Chelsea
Teaching is a complex and demanding profession, with many teachers experiencing high stress and burnout (Gray, Wilcox, & Nordstokke, 2017). Teacher well-being is essential in creating a positive learning community. As highlighted in Alberta’s new Teaching Quality Standard, teachers play a central...
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2017-04-05
The Deakin Review of Children’s Literature is an open access electronic quarterly review of contemporary materials of interest to children and young adults. The Review focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on Canadian English language children’s books. French language reviews and peer review...
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Restorative Storytelling: A Pilot Project Exploring Testimonies of Survivors of the Genocide Against Tutsi of Rwanda
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Yohani, Sophie, Kreitzer, Linda, Nathoo, Jasmine, Bayingana, Serge, Karambizi, Pamela
Healing after genocide is a multi- dimensional and complex process, yet finding truth and justice are often seen as fundamental to healing processes. “Ubuhamya” refers to a narrative testimony of one’s lived experience, which is viewed as an important educational tool, as well as a mechanism for...
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2017-04-18
We evaluated two experimenter-delivered, small group word reading programs among at-risk poor readers in grade 1 classes of regular elementary schools using a two-arm dual site matched control trial intervention. Readers with word reading scores below the 30th percentile (n = 201) were deemed...
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2017-04-20
McGarvey, Lynn, McFeetors, Janelle
Our research is based on the premise that the starting place for effective communication begins with understanding parent perceptions of mathematics teaching and learning today. In this study, we asked, What are parents’ experiences with and perceptions of curriculum change? What is the nature of...
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2019-01-01
Yohani, Sophie, Kirova, Anna, Gokiert, Rebecca, Brosinsky, Larissa, Nathoo, Jasmine, Georgis, Rebecca, Chiu, Yvonne, Tahir, Sabah
This project explores the use of a train-the-trainer model with a local Syrian community to build the community’s capacity to support the mental wellbeing among Syrian refugees. This project aims to answer the following questions: 1. What psychosocial challenges and needs do different Syrian...
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2019-01-01
McMahon, Rob, McNally, Michael, Fraser, Crystal, Pearce, Hanne, Fontaine, Trish
Communities in the western Arctic can now connect to high-speed digital infrastructure – a situation that provides both opportunities and challenges for residents of the Northwest Territories (NWT). The completion of the long-anticipated Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link (MVFL) in June 2017 and...
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Parents' Use of Scaffolding Strategies to Support Young Children's Mathematical Reasoning in Game Play
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Jamison, Nicole M., McFeetors, P. Janelle
Commercial games could provide a vital, engaging home-school connection to support children’s mathematical learning. Our interest is in understanding what scaffolding and approaches parents used to support young 4 to 5 year old children in their mathematical reasoning and game play strategies....