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Fall 2017
Despite the widely acknowledged importance of university leadership, North American universities are facing a scarcity of senior faculty able or willing to take on leadership positions, including department chairships (Luna, 2012; Appadurai, 2009; Gmelch & Miskin, 2011). While professors often...
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Fall 2020
One of the most important responsibilities parents take on is deciding where their children will be schooled. Alberta offers the most choices of schooling types in Canada, including public, separate, charter, private and homeschooling (Bosetti & Gereluk, 2016). Parents engage in information...
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Resilient Resistance: Understanding the Construction of Positive Ethnocultural Identity in Visible Minority Youth
DownloadSpring 2019
Visible minority youth face racism daily at micro, mezzo and macro-levels and yet there is a gap in academic research that examines how these students can combat racism, as they experience it at the micro-level, in order to develop pride toward their minority culture and race. As such, this...
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Teacher Unionism and Teacher Professionalization: A Qualitative Case Study of Alberta Charter School Teachers
DownloadSpring 2020
Publicly funded charter schools in Alberta were created by the Alberta legislature in 1994. The stated rationale for charter schools was that parents and students needed more choice within the public education system (Alberta Education, 2011). However, at the time that charter schools were being...
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Tears at the Heart of Things: Moral Distress Among Principals of Canadian-Accredited Schools in China
DownloadSpring 2024
Moral distress arises when a person is aware of a moral problem, acknowledges a moral responsibility to act, yet is constrained from following a course of action congruent with their own moral judgement (Nathaniel, 2006; Jameton, 1984). Being hindered from doing what one believes to be morally...