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Spring 2013

Lawlor, Carmen G

ABSTRACT Advances in computer technology have created powerful opportunities for learners to engage with others, producing very different contexts for learning, and for negotiating our very way of being. Yet, engagement in these virtual learning environments also raises many questions around how...

Fall 2011

Kitson, Nicole A

This research explored the question: “How can we improve the implementation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) within a Tanzanian clinical environment?” The objectives included working with local stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve, and exploring barriers and facilitators to...

Spring 2015

Young, Kaitlin S

In Greenland today oil, gas, and mineral resource development is being pursued as a means for financial independence from the Kingdom of Denmark. Such development carries the potential for radical and unprecedented environmental and societal change. Recent years have witnessed intense political...

Fall 2020

Rojas Tarango, Abraham

This thesis develops a time averaged model (TAM) and a dynamic phasor model (DPM) of a generalised modular multilevel converter (MMC) structure that can be used to represent four different MMC topologies. These four topologies include two different classes of next generation MMCs that are...

Fall 2011

Lyon, Christopher

Over the last decade, the forest industry in Canada has been severely impacted by post-Fordist shifts in economic, political and land-tenure regimes, as well as ecological impacts related to climate change. Because of these impacts, many forest-based communities have lost mills and jobs and have...

Spring 2020

Sokol, Lydia A

Recently, sport psychology consulting has transitioned from a focus on mental skills training to helping athletes develop holistically by developing themselves as people in addition to sportspeople (Bond, 2002; Miller & Kerr, 2002; Friesen & Orlick, 2010). While this pursuit is well-intentioned,...

Fall 2018

Konoval, Timothy

With so many truths about what effective endurance running coaching is and what it is not, it can be increasingly difficult for coach developers to navigate through these multiple interpretations to discern what is truly effective coaching. Recently, a group of Foucauldian coaching researchers...

Spring 2018

Erfani Hossein Pour, Rezvaneh

This thesis offers a postcolonial understanding of power relations in environmental justice discourse. The main argument of this research is that environmental justice can be seen not only from a postcolonial point of view, but also as a postcolonial issue. The intellectual contribution of the...

Spring 2010

Kidner, Keely

This thesis focuses on the negotiation of power and identity between Swiss students and instructors in the Swiss classroom. Although Schriftdeutsch1 is the official language of secondary schools in Switzerland, speakers often practice code-switching, which serves many conversational functions...

Fall 2012

Cucchiara, Salvatore

The purpose of this investigation is to formulate a theory of change. To this end, I first explore what goal(s) can productively inform a wide range of struggles. I argue in favour of an experimental ethics tentatively geared towards non-domination --a way of organising relations where parties...