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Results for "departments_tesim:"Faculty of Extension""
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Spring 2020
The need to build communities of empowered and socially responsible youth is becoming increasingly important among all levels of government across Canada and globally. This qualitative study examined how traumatized youth with high-risk conditions (e.g., mental health disorders, poverty,...
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Climate Resilience Planning with Vulnerable Communities: A Case Study of Engagement and Citizenship in Edmonton, Alberta
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Municipal governments are playing key roles in the development of climate adaptation and resilience policies and are increasingly incorporating participatory approaches into policy development processes. However, confusion and assumptions about the definition of resilience, as well as related...
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Cultivating Green Space Together: Exploring the Collaborative Planning and Public Engagement of Green Space in Edmonton, Alberta
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Edmonton, the fifth-largest municipality in Canada, is attracting more and more people to study, work, and live. Expected to nearly double in population by 2050, the City of Edmonton put forward a series of plans to enable a sustainable and climate-resilient city to accommodate new residents....
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Spring 2014
Ten emerging adults were interviewed about their experiences of console-based video games in their domestic context. Emerging adults were chosen because they constitute the first generation of video game natives, the first generation to grow up with video games as a ubiquitous piece of Everyday...
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Fall 2019
Despite increasing awareness of poverty in Canada, the number of individuals living in poverty is still rising. In response, all three levels of government and in particular, municipalities, are directly taking on responsibilities for reducing poverty. Across these municipal initiatives is a...
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Exploration of Personal Learning Network Usage in the Acquisition of Leadership Competencies
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This research is a purposeful case study exploring whether the use of personal learning networks (PLNs) by three digitally sophisticated educators contributes to their acquisition of leadership competencies. The study used an embedded mixed methods design that reflects a social constructivist...
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Fall 2018
For the past 400 years Indigenous peoples in Canada have actively resisted colonial impositions on their way of life (Simpson, 2011). The impact of the relationship that non-Indigenous people have had with Indigenous people during these times of resistance has been both positive and negative. The...
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Mobile Phones and Health Communication for Young Adults: An Exploratory Case Study about Incorporating Text messaging in Pregnancy Care Support in Edmonton
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Research shows that reproductive health initiatives for youth, using SMS (texting), are successful worldwide. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and describe how introducing SMS in an agency supporting people facing unplanned pregnancies in Edmonton could enhance...
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Spring 2021
Overall, the research aimed to situate urban Indigenous perspectives and experiences within the field of community engagement and inform the practice of urban Indigenous community engagement. The research is focused on understanding the ways that urban Indigenous people in Edmonton are involved...
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Fall 2021
This thesis considers the constitution of urban places, futures and belonging through foraging, urban gardening and recipe creation. Adopting a community-based research approach, the research embraces values of inclusion and is an active attempt to diversify the ways in which urban greenspaces...