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A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy Education
Download2012-10-12
SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Incoming university students have experience with and are engaged by avatar-based virtual worlds [VEs]. Are educators ready for them? An empirically supported, psychological theory of learning in 3D Virtual Environments, with principles for educational practice, would...
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2016: Worldwide, approx. 683 million young people between the ages of 10 and 25 are registered in virtual worlds. Virtual environments have the potential to provide instruction encompassing the attributes that educational research has determined increase student...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: From Ms. Grundy to Peter Parker, comics and teachers are curious bedfellows. This interdisciplinary study examines the history of the teacher in North American comics, and involves a praxis-oriented approach to researching with this hybrid form, studying the relationship...
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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: Singing is in a vulnerable state as a result of the pandemic. Given the immense benefits that singing affords children on developmental physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual levels, a world without singing will also impact the general health and wellbeing...
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Literacy Learning in Playful Spaces: Using Multimodal Strategies to Develop Narrative with Young Learners
Download2011-01-31
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2011: The initial two-year phase of the project is primarily interested in examining the possibilities for using touch screen (ipad) technologies with young learners when they are used as a means to facilitate the creation, modification and use of children’s own multimodal...
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Outdoor Education in Canada: Guiding Philosophies, Distinguishing Characteristics, and Central Goals
2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Outdoor education (OE) is an academic discipline and a teaching method characterized by experiential learning, immersion in nature, and challenging activities. However, OE varies across countries in terms of its philosophies, characteristics, and goals. OE in Canada lacks a...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: This study will investigate the beliefs and knowledge second language (L2) speakers of English have about English pronunciation and its importance to successful communication. Further, it will examine learners’ ability to critically evaluate pronunciation training programs...
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2019-02-01
NFRF-E awarded 2019: This participatory project reimagines sport access and equity using intersectional, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approaches. It brings together researchers of disability sport, Indigenous health, anti-oppression education, LGBTQ sport, and program evaluation with...
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2022-10-27
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Canadians have recently been engaged in an intensified confrontation with colonial history and the systemic oppression of Indigenous peoples. Growing awareness of this troubling history has resulted in the creation of required Indigenous content courses in teacher education...