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2022-01-01

Sarah Wright

Inclusive education is an ever-evolving area of practice, requiring teachers and educational leaders at school, jurisdiction, and provincial levels to adapt and adjust policies and initiatives to support the diverse learning needs present in Alberta’s 21st century schools. Currently, inclusive ...

2022-01-01

Melody McGrath-Taylor

Despite the accolades heaped upon our inclusive Canadian schools, we still serve our students in two categories: those who qualify for specialized services, and those who do not. Rather than focusing on diagnoses, codes, and individualized supports, this research examined an educational structure...

2022-01-01

Priscilla Luu

Many theorists disagree on the correct interpretation of Marxism and Critical theory as it has evolved and developed throughout the progression of history. Some claim that Critical theory lacks incorporating diverse perspectives and individual agency while others claim that this is not the...

2022-01-01

Matthew Clements

The disappointing Grade 6 Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) scores for Peace River School Division (PRSD) for the 2018-2019 year (the most recent scores available due to COVID-19 interruptions) marked the fourth consecutive year the divisional scores had declined. As shown in Figure 1, only 60.7%...

2022-12-07

Wendy Dallas-Shelley

Canada’s reputation on the world stage as an inclusive multicultural nation attracts many new immigrants to the country each year. Immigration is essential to the development of Canada’s economy and over the last decade, immigration has grown substantially with immigrants making considerable...

2020-07-30

Jake Warkentin

For students attending a regular school, parental engagement impacts student achievement more than many other factors. This impact on student achievement increases as parents take greater ownership and interest in their child’s education. Within the literature examined, the most important factor...

2016-01-01

Hannah Tighe

Injustices of varying degrees occur in schools across Alberta every day; achievement gaps, European narratives at the expense of all others, and lack of representation of BIPOC folks are just some of the ways that injustice shows up in our schools. Using critical pedagogy as its framework, this...

2021-08-15

Adriana Marcela Ferrer Rondon

Economic growth has been the worldwide driver of development promoted by the neoliberal discourse and leading to a binary system thinking, where growth ideologies are seen as good and degrowth ones as bad. Further, this binary mindset has enabled western ideologies of development, science, and...

2021-01-01

Athena Photinopoulos

This paper considers Bolman and Deal’s four frames, as developed in Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (2017), in the context of an academic advisory committee, the Quality Standards Assurance Committee (QSAC), at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The...

2021-01-01

Chesare Cardinal

The purpose of this literature review is to begin the conversation on reforming Special Education policy and programming to become culturally inclusive for Nêhiyaw children. Exploring natural laws and traditional perspectives of how Indigenous people, specifically Cree, educated, integrated, and...