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Hunger on Campus: Food Insecurity among Post-Secondary Students with Children at the University of Alberta
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Background: Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain ability to obtain the quantity or quality of food that an individual or household needs due to financial constraints. Food insecurity has been shown to have a variety of negative impacts on health and wellbeing. Post-secondary students...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. There is an increase of Canadians speaking a language at home other than French or English, resulting in an increase of linguistic and cultural diversity in schools. Unfortunately, many mainstream elementary teachers lack knowledge to effectively teach these emerging...
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2018-07-26
SSHRC Awarded CG 2018: The theme for the interdisciplinary International Symposium on Bilingualism-12 (ISB12) is The Next Generation. We build on the theme in two ways. First, we highlight the importance of children in maintaining languages, including among immigrants, indigenous language...
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Fall 2021
Despite the introduction of vaccination and surveillance efforts, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remains a disease of great public health concern, in terms of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden. The association between increased short-term (30-day) mortality following IPD has been...
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It Might Be ‘Us’ Not ‘Them’: An Autoethnographic Reflexion of Ableist Practices in Adapted Physical Activity
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Adapted physical activity (APA) is an area of scholarship and professional practice situated across the medical, social, and most recently, resistance and radical models of disability. As APA scholars begin to shift towards more critical and social justice lenses of disability and movement...
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09/25/2020
SSRHC IG awarded 2021: "Kidless Lit" seeks to expand and historicize the existing conversations about childlessness in both popular and scholarly discourses. In order to address both popular and scholarly audiences about this topic of great public interest, the project foregrounds writing as both...
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Leadership as Life Skills in Relation to Health Behaviours and Bodyweight in Grade 5 Students
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Childhood obesity has risen dramatically over recent decades in Canada, attributed largely to increasingly obesogenic environments. Our understanding of obesity now recognizes its complex ecological etiology, yet life skills – critical to how children engage with their surroundings – have been...
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Learning to speak a minority language at school: Mandarin speech development of children in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada
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A key factor of bilingual speech development is speech input. Different from an immigrant setting where children who are learning the majority language as a second language (L2) can receive rich and authentic input, the speech input is usually limited when learning a minority language. For L2...
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Let me show you what I know: Image, word and gesture in two-year-old children
2015-04-21
The iconic gesture used by two-year-old children is indicative of their knowledge and communicative abilities about objects and events. In this study, this knowledge was tested by studying the gesture produced by children with multiple language exposure and children with exposure to only one...