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Critical Pedagogical Praxis of Social Justice: Enabling Transformation When Educating for Global Citizenship ̶ A Qualitative Instrumental Case Study
DownloadFall 2020
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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From Recognition to Knowledge Creation: Education of Refugee Youth Learners in Alberta and British Columbia
DownloadSpring 2017
Educational success for many refugee learners in the Canadian education system has been a difficult if not challenging achievement. Educational institutions mirror the values and practices of the larger society. Similar to the values and practices nationally and internationally, in educational...
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Marching Toward Change: Indigenous Youth Perspectives on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Crisis
DownloadFall 2024
In response to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) crisis in Canada, annual Marches are held to raise awareness, increase community healing, and prevent further gendered violence. Blending a Western focus group and Indigenous sharing circle, this thesis research aimed to...
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Power in My Blood: corporeal Sovereignty through the Praxis of an Indigenous Eroticanalysis
DownloadFall 2016
This dissertation explores how Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender form erotic expressions and act as decolonizing mechanisms. I address the question, “If this is my body, where are my stories?” by arguing for the recovery and what I call the practice of an Indigenous...
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Queering High School: An Ethnodramatic Inqueery on Youth Experiences of Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Harassment and Bullying
DownloadFall 2020
“Queering High School,” was a queer ethnodrama on the lived experience of LGBTQ youth in Alberta high schools that explored their experiences of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. This ethnodrama, conducted through a queer lens, which I refer to as an ethnodramatic inqueery, was grounded in...
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The Perspectives of Global Leaders Situated Within the Aga Khan Development Network on the Role of Nurses in Early Childhood Development: An Interpretive Descriptive Study
DownloadFall 2023
Background: The role of early life experiences in life-long human development is distinct. Early life experiences are a strong indicator among the determinants of health, and they are instrumental in addressing vulnerabilities and enhancing human capabilities. Global agencies have invested...
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The Social and Cultural Conditions for Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Students in a Rural Community: A Case Study of Educators’ Perspectives
DownloadFall 2012
In order to combat sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth suicide ideation and completion, the cultures of schools must change to become accepting and inclusive of this vulnerable group. SGM youth in rural spaces are at greater risk than their urban counterparts. For changes to occur, a deep...