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A Study of Dominican Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Explanations of Factors Affecting Their Instructional Practices
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The purpose of this study was to gain an explanation from teachers on any relationship which exist between students’ performance on the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) mathematics examination and Dominican secondary teachers’ mathematical knowledge, frequency of use of 12 teaching strategies,...
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Spring 2021
Abstract This tome is both a “solar” dissertation and a “lunar” grimoire that performs its own argument. Adepts of Modernism argues that the infamous “little magazines” of modernism conjured their own enlightened, reading “counter-publics” by exploiting the same strategies and tactics of...
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Building Your Neurology Acumen’: A Flipped Classroom Approach to Strengthen Internal Medicine Residents’ Neurological Skills
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Abstract Background/Purpose: Rotating internal medicine (IM) residents often do not feel knowledgeable about neurology, or adequately prepared to approach patients presenting with neurologic clinical issues. Limited pre-clinical exposure, uncertainty when facing neurological complaints,...
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Spring 2016
Disability simulations are experiential learning activities that have been used to simulate the functional and cultural experiences associated with disability. Despite their widespread use in post-secondary settings (e.g., physical education, recreation, medicine, and nursing), there is...
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Spring 2021
ClassDojo is a popularized behavioural management software application used in schools around the globe. This classroom application allows teachers, parents and students to readily track progress using a gamified point system, and share feedback in real-time. Teachers often use ClassDojo to...
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Spring 2014
In Alberta the influx of immigrants and refugee families from many countries has resulted in an increasing number of minority students entering mainstream classrooms. Students may have limited English skills and in some cases none at all. These students are only able to communicate in their...
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Spring 2013
My research seeks to understand the experience of students who were labeled with learning disabilities and/or behavioural issues and subsequently transferred to an arts-based school. Specifically, I focused on students’ sense of belonging and self-efficacy, their willingness to take academic...
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Instructors’ Perceptions of Authentic Learning in the Pedagogical Approaches of Postsecondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case for Uganda
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The literature has demonstrated a need to not only examine instances of student-centered learning in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) but also discuss associated instructional approaches from the perspective of instructors. The purpose of this study was to gain further understanding about Ugandan...
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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...