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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of non-Aboriginal Counsellors working with Aboriginal Peoples
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With a call for non-Aboriginal counsellors to develop a better understanding of the health issues facing Canada’s Aboriginal peoples, future counsellors need to have a strong understanding of the changing social conditions and focus beyond existing paradigms of mental health care. Culturally...
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Spring 2015
The thesis consists of two papers exploring the area of digital game construction in pre-service teacher education. The first paper details the analysis of 166 pre-service teachers’ experiences constructing a digital game in the Scratch development environment (MIT, 2009). Pre-service teachers...
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Latino Immigrant Parents in Canada: Experiences and Adjustment to raising Children in the Absence of the Extended Family
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The Latino population in Canada has been increasing during the past decade accounting for 11% of newcomers in 2011. One of the core values in Latino culture is familism, the family is the main source of support and has an important role in childrearing. This qualitative study focuses on the...
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More than Meets the Eye: Immigrant and Refugee Adjustment, Education, and Acculturation in Canada
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How well immigrants and refugees adjust to Canadian society is critical for their well-being and integration. Using an acculturation development framework and emphasizing a process-oriented and strength-based approach, this dissertation reports on three papers related to immigrant and refugee...
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Fall 2012
Skilled worker immigrants, who are professionals that migrate to Canada for employment purposes, account for a significant proportion of newcomers to Canada each year. Upon arriving in Canada, they quickly learn that the education and experiences obtained in their countries of origin are of...
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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study is to extend the rape myth literature to intimate partner violence (IPV) myths by evaluating the prevalence of IPV myth acceptance and clarifying whether gender and prior IPV victimization are associated with IPV myth acceptance. To this end, three research questions...