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Spring 2011
This thesis focuses on a temporally-limited “slice” of the Introductory Sociology course as one way into thinking about how the discipline of sociology is constituted by the same kind of social relations it studies. Invitations to sociology are conceptualized using Goffman’s interactionist theory...
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Knowing More Than Can be Said: Michael Polanyi, Tacit Knowing, and New Pedagogical Strategies.
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Tacit knowledge and tacit knowing are intricately bound with one another. They are the background to what is known explicitly. Polanyi’s ideas open a way to understanding how knowledge is known and questions the core of dualist thinking. These ideas conceptualize knowledge as constructed from...
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Fall 2016
This dissertation examines encounters in volunteer abroad programs in Nicaragua from a transnational feminist perspective. Focussing on these programs as pedagogical projects, I outline the distinctly different pedagogical logics that inform Nicaraguan hosts, North American volunteers, and...
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Spring 2022
This study of Pedagogy at the End of the World investigates the “end of the world” scenarios that now characterize education and its reasons in Anthropocene times. Emerging through an interrogation of the apocalypse habits and anthropo-scenic views through which educational futurity is most often...
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Fall 2021
The Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in 2006 (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, 2018), the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2008, the Calls to Action document in 2015 (TRC, 2015b), and Alberta Education: Teacher (TQS), Leadership (LQS), and...
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Queering High School: An Ethnodramatic Inqueery on Youth Experiences of Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Harassment and Bullying
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“Queering High School,” was a queer ethnodrama on the lived experience of LGBTQ youth in Alberta high schools that explored their experiences of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. This ethnodrama, conducted through a queer lens, which I refer to as an ethnodramatic inqueery, was grounded in...
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Straddling the Cultural Divide: Second Generation South Asian Canadian Secondary Students Negotiate Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction
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This study investigates the experiences of second-generation South Asian Canadian students in secondary English classrooms as they encounter the contemporary postcolonial text and film entitled The Namesake (Lahiri, 2003; Nair, 2007) and discuss cultural identity through reader response. The...
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The social-psychological process involved in using human patient simulators as a teaching/learning modality in undergraduate nursing education
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The use of the high-fidelity human patient simulator (HPS) based clinical scenario in undergraduate nursing education is a powerful learning tool well suited to modern students’ preference for immersive construction of knowledge through the provision of contextually rich reality-based practice...
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The World in an Object Lesson: Visual Pedagogies in Children's Literature Produced for the 1893 Columbian Exposition
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The World in an Object Lesson addresses the ways in which nineteenth-century reading audiences of the United States were taught to make sense of the visual stimulus of worlds fairs. The Object Lesson was one visual method which was both promoted and critiqued in the material culture of the...
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Spring 2022
Abstract Literature has the power to change lives. Most English teachers trust this to be true. But while there are numerous arguments, of varying merit, that defend literature on cognitive grounds, few studies convincingly point to the underlying mechanisms of what makes it ‘work,’ or explain...