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Acts of living with: Being, doing, and coming to understand Indigenous perspectives alongside science curricula
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This inquiry engages with the complexity of bringing Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, being, and doing together; both in K-12 science curricula and research. It responds to Canadian provincial/territorial policies and programs, adopted since the turn of the century, that mandate...
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At-promise Students: a study of urban student learning in Alberta within the context of science education
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As teachers and educators, we have power, be it destructive or supportive. As such, we have a duty to our students to understand their complexities. The purpose of my research which utilizes a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology by means of a case study approach in the context of science...
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Authoring Themselves as Mathematical Learners: Students' Experiences of Learning to Learn High School Mathematics
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High school mathematics students often complete homework and study for unit tests without support to consider how these actions could contribute to their mathematical learning. However, students can, through the process of learning to learn mathematics, to bring into view how they learn...
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Critical Ethnomusicology Pedagogy with Migrant Youth in Edmonton, Canada: Promoting Cultural Empowerment and Intercultural Learning through Music
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Given the globally accelerating patterns of voluntary and forced migration, Canadian schools are currently serving the most culturally, religiously, and linguistically diverse student cohort in the country’s history. Many Canadian schools have responded by instituting culturally responsive...
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Evolving Professional Identity: Exploring How Pharmacists Make Sense of their Prescribing Role
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Dramatic changes in the pharmacy profession have occurred in the past century. Many of these occurred as the primary focus of the pharmacist transitioned from drug products to providing patient care services. Prescribing by pharmacists gained momentum when it was implemented in the United Kingdom...
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Philosophy for Children: Challenging Sexual and Gender Essentialism Through Pedagogical Advocacy
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School-based bullying is a pervasive issue in Canada, resulting in deplorable physical and psychological outcomes for victims, bullies and bystanders. Sexual and gender minority youth—and anyone perceived to embody variant sexual and gender norms—are especially at risk of abuse. I present...
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Fall 2016
Scientific literacy is an important goal of science education but one that has been difficult to define. The definition of scientific literacy has changed over its 60-year history in response to changing societal needs. These definitions have ranged from basic levels of scientific understanding...
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Fall 2012
This study, primarily theoretical in nature, explores a philosophically and pedagogically reasonable way of addressing nature of science (NOS) in school science. NOS encompasses what science is and how scientific knowledge develops. I critically evaluate consensus frameworks of NOS in school...