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Fall 2020

McLean, Michelle

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...

Fall 2020

Menon, Sajani Jinny

The demographic profile of South Asians residing in Canada has grown appreciably over the years. For instance, as of 2011, South Asians made up Canada’s largest visible minority group (Statistics Canada, 2011) and was predicted to continue growing (Statistics Canada, 2012). More recently,...

Fall 2023

Feddersen, Richard

This study examines how knowledge displays reflect the way students of German at a university in Jordan position themselves vis-à-vis German identity in the semester prior to studying abroad. It may be tempting to assume that language learners desire some degree of target culture membership, but...

Spring 2024

Ifeonu, Prof-Collins

Over the last three decades, the number of students pursuing higher education outside of their country of citizenship (international students) has increased five-fold (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2022). In that same period Canada has become a popular attraction of...

Fall 2019

Pauls, Allison

The dissertation for this degree comprises this document and two public-juried recitals. These were given on June 16, 2017 at First Mennonite Church in Edmonton, Alberta and May 16, 2019 at Sargent Avenue Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The vibrancy of rhythm and impassioned sense of...

Fall 2018

Martineau, Christine Yvonne

Since 2002, Alberta teachers have been required to infuse Aboriginal perspectives into the K-12 curriculum across all subject areas in order to positively impact Aboriginal children’s identity development. There are several assumptions inherent in the policy of infusion that this study uncovers...

Spring 2019

Yildiz, Ceren

Derek Parfit (1984) challenges our notion of personal identity as a criterion of survival by offering a thought experiment in which one goes through fission and survives as both postfission persons while being identical to neither of them since identity is a one-one relation. Parfit thereby...

Fall 2024

Letourneau, Angeline Marie

As pressure continues to grow to reduce global emissions, recognition of the widespread impacts on various groups from such efforts has inspired calls for a just transition. On the one hand, Canada's path to decarbonization must address workers who stand to lose their jobs, while ensuring this...

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...

Spring 2020

Reid, Nathalie

May 5th, 2016, during conversation with a former colleague who had been evacuated from Fort McMurray, Alberta due to a devastating forest fire, I began to wonder more deeply about teachers’ experiences in the midst of trauma and trauma sensitivity, particularly as I sensed trauma sensitivity was...