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Spring 2018

Whitford, Adam N

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...

Fall 2014

Marin, Luis F

The purpose of this research is to explore how to optimize the quality of the design of a blended learning experience. This research started as an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design of instructional hypermedia. However, a preliminary review brought out the need to study the larger...

2016-02-15

Peck, Carla

SSHRC PG LOI|Stage 1 awarded 2016; Stage 2 not successful: Canada has long struggled with questions of national identity as a result of contested ground over the stories told about its past. Struggles over sovereignty by Quebec Francophones and Indigenous peoples, as well as the continued...

2018-10-29

Peck, Carla

SSHRC Awarded PG2 2019: When history education in Canada was first designed at the end of the 19th century, it was part of a nation-building project shaped by competing interests of Anglophone Canada and Francophone Québec. Indigenous peoples and their histories were completely omitted,...

2018-02-13

Peck, Carla

SSHRC PGLOI|Stage 1 awarded 2018: When history education in Canada was first designed at the end of the nineteenth century, it was part of a nation-building project shaped by competing interests of Anglophone Canada and Francophone Québec. Although history and social studies curricula and museum...

2020-04-04

Reikie, Thomas W.

Twentieth century post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide a lens by which desire and its role in education can be analyzed. This analysis is done in the hope of understanding some of the ways by which our desires are manufactured, singularized, and then leveraged in the name...

Spring 2022

Howe, William R.

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...

2012

Beard, Laura J.

Atanarjat (2001), premiado filme Inuit, inicia com a seguinte frase sendo proferida por um indigena idoso: “Eu so posso cantar esta cancao para alguem que sonsiga compreende-la.” Mas, adinal, o que quer dizer, neste contexio, “comprennder” ou “compreensao”? Sera Que a frase se refere a uma...

2016

Brigandt, Ingo

Contributing to the recent debate on whether or not explanations ought to be differentiated from arguments, this article argues that the distinction matters to science education. I articulate the distinction in terms of explanations and arguments having to meet different standards of adequacy....

2016-01-05

John A. Nychka

New learners of a subject seem to love examples, and always want more of them during their process of learning. Examples are great because they demonstrate how to solve problems: they offer guidance on processes with respect to styles of problems. A commonly held misconception is that people will...