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(Re)conceptualizing Curriculum in (Physical) Education: Focused on Wellness and Guided by Wisdom
DownloadSpring 2014
It is clear to many researchers that physical education needs significant reform (Bain, 1995; Devis-Devis & Sparkes, 1999; Fernandez-Balboa, 1997; Kirk, 2010; Lawson, 2009; Tinning, 2010). While these calls for curriculum change are warranted, how we problematize the issue of curriculum needs...
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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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Canadian Trauma Training Needs Assessment and Development of a Trauma Laparotomy Operative Assessment Tool
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Background: Canadian general surgery trainees are required to achieve competence in multiple domains of trauma care such as the operative and non-operative management of injuries, performance of the role of trauma team leader, trauma-specific knowledge, teamwork, and communication. A gap between...
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Critical Pedagogical Praxis of Social Justice: Enabling Transformation When Educating for Global Citizenship ̶ A Qualitative Instrumental Case Study
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The forces of ever-increasing globalization are impacting everyday life globally and have created a world that is struggling with global issues and related injustices. Global solutions are required to address these issues laden with injustice. Over the last decades, provincial, national, and...
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Curriculum and the foreign language student: interpretive approaches to understanding the postsecondary study of German in Canada
DownloadFall 2010
In this dissertation, I use a hermeneutic framework drawing on critical and postcolonial theory and interpretive inquiry (narrative analysis) to explore the postsecondary curriculum for German as a foreign language and culture (GFL) in Canada, its history, and its current manifestation, in...
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Curriculum-making worlds: A narrative inquiry into children's experiences outside of school
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Research on children’s curriculum-making experiences as they move from home, school, Out of School Care (OSC) and community activities is sparse. In this study, I worked from a view of curriculum as a course of life (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Clandinin & Connelly, 1992) in order to inquire into...
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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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Fall 2011
With many current initiatives to promote information literacy, it is necessary to assess the state of information literacy instruction in secondary school and the factors influencing information literacy. Teachers have the opportunity to instruct information literacy (IL) yet students enter...