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(Re)conceptualizing Curriculum in (Physical) Education: Focused on Wellness and Guided by Wisdom
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It is clear to many researchers that physical education needs significant reform (Bain, 1995; Devis-Devis & Sparkes, 1999; Fernandez-Balboa, 1997; Kirk, 2010; Lawson, 2009; Tinning, 2010). While these calls for curriculum change are warranted, how we problematize the issue of curriculum needs...
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At-promise Students: a study of urban student learning in Alberta within the context of science education
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As teachers and educators, we have power, be it destructive or supportive. As such, we have a duty to our students to understand their complexities. The purpose of my research which utilizes a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology by means of a case study approach in the context of science...
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Canadian Trauma Training Needs Assessment and Development of a Trauma Laparotomy Operative Assessment Tool
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Background: Canadian general surgery trainees are required to achieve competence in multiple domains of trauma care such as the operative and non-operative management of injuries, performance of the role of trauma team leader, trauma-specific knowledge, teamwork, and communication. A gap between...
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Constructing Collaboration Across Campus: Pre-professional speech-language pathologists and teachers working together
DownloadSpring 2012
This thesis project analyzed the efficacy of a single exposure to interprofessional education (IPE) for education and speech-language pathology (SLP) pre-professionals. The effects of IPE were shown through analysis of participant responses related to personal reflections, professional roles,...
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Critical Pedagogical Praxis of Social Justice: Enabling Transformation When Educating for Global Citizenship ̶ A Qualitative Instrumental Case Study
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The forces of ever-increasing globalization are impacting everyday life globally and have created a world that is struggling with global issues and related injustices. Global solutions are required to address these issues laden with injustice. Over the last decades, provincial, national, and...
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Curriculum and the foreign language student: interpretive approaches to understanding the postsecondary study of German in Canada
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In this dissertation, I use a hermeneutic framework drawing on critical and postcolonial theory and interpretive inquiry (narrative analysis) to explore the postsecondary curriculum for German as a foreign language and culture (GFL) in Canada, its history, and its current manifestation, in...