Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Blair, Chantelle
- 1Geekie, Constance
- 1Goudar, Natasha
- 1McLean, Michelle
- 1Ocampo Gomez, Elizabeth
- 1Rawat, Sonia
-
Fall 2020
Assertiveness can be taboo for women. This is highlighted by recent social movements (i.e., #METOO) where women describe considerable self-doubt about their right to stand up to abuse. The onus for abusive behaviour lies with perpetrators. Assertiveness, though, is shown to mitigate the extent of...
-
Early Childhood Educators' Trauma-Informed Practices and Experiences Working with Children of Teen Parents
DownloadFall 2022
Researchers have suggested that trauma-informed practice can lessen the impact of trauma on children during their development. No studies have examined the practices that Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) implement when working with teenage parents' children. This qualitative study examines the...
-
Fall 2009
Policy emphasis on education as a medium to alleviate poverty and to achieve development is this thesis’s topic. Long enforcement of this approach has led us not only to believe in the education-for-prosperity link, but also to reproduce it and create a social system that works in line with it....
-
Spring 2019
Dramatic maturational changes occur in heart energy metabolism in the fetal to newborn transition, most predominantly marked by a decrease in glycolysis and an increase in fatty acid oxidation which then becomes the major energy providing substrate for the heart after birth. However, in the...
-
Postnatal development of the purinergic signaling system in the preBötzinger Complex; implications for the hypoxic ventilatory response
DownloadFall 2023
Low oxygen (hypoxia) evokes the biphasic hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR), in which carotid-body chemoreceptors trigger a rapid increase in ventilation (VE) followed by a centrally-mediated, secondary hypoxic depression of respiration (HRD) and metabolic rate (VO2) that involves adenosine. In...
-
Third World feminist perspectives on development, NGOs, the de-politicization of palestinian women's movements and learning in struggle
DownloadSpring 2010
This exploratory case study examines the proposition that development NGOs are playing an active part in the de-politicization of Palestinian women's movements fight for independence and liberation from occupation by advancing the “development project’s” (McMicheal, 1996) push for Western...
-
Fall 2011
This ethnographic study examines how social structure constrains the well-being of widows in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, explores the role of women’s agency in bettering their lives, and looks at tension between international and local development projects. I collaborated with the Moshi...