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Understanding the Potential for Arts-Informed Inquiry in Program Evaluation
(2013-07-02)
Program evaluation is a form of systematic inquiry designed to meet the needs of those who are working on or who are responsible for a program. One challenge faced by the field of evaluation is responding to the increasing ...
Accessing English Language Education in Urban Immigrant Gateways: The Case of Ottawa
(2015-05-01)
Immigration to Canadian cities is a growing phenomenon. While much previous international migration research has focused on states and borders, cities are receiving increasing attention as a scale at which the lived ...
Education as a Political Act: Dewey, Freire and the (International Baccalaureate) Theory of Knowledge Curriculum
(2009-08-11)
Active learning should be the ultimate aim of education. I argue that it is a three interrelated-step model of curriculum: one which promotes critical thinking, involves dialogue and ultimately indicates growth. It is a ...
All Education is Environmental Education
(2009-02-02)
The purpose of this study is to explore how secondary school students construct meanings for environmentalism. The study participants consisted of grade twelve students from a rural eastern Ontario secondary school. The ...
Understanding Humour: A Teacher’s Handbook
(2013-02-28)
Humour is found wherever there are people. In schools the way that students and teachers laugh and joke gives an instant impression of any classroom. A lack of laughter is just as telling. But humour is complex. Why do we ...
Academic Self-Concept, Academic Motivation, Academic Engagement, and Academic Achievement: a Mixed Methods Study of Indian Adolescents in Canada and India
(2011-09-22)
This study, employing sequential explanatory mixed methods research design, examined: 1) the academic self-concept, academic motivation, and academic achievement of Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada in comparison to ...
Understanding Identity Development and Adjustment of Young Adult Transracial Adoptees
(2011-02-01)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the identity development and adjustment among young adult Transracial adoptees. To achieve this purpose, I conducted two separate interviews with four Transracially ...
Engaging First Nations Youth through Reciprocal Intercommunity Exchange
(2011-01-27)
This phenomenological study of a First Nations to First Nations reciprocal student
exchange elicited and explored the meanings of a reciprocal intercommunity exchange for grade
7 and 8 students in two First Nations ...
Chronic Pain: a Community-Based Exercise and Education Program
(2009-09-22)
Chronic pain affects approximately 16% to 36% of Canadian adults and is one of the most common reasons for physician visits in Canada. The effects of a self-referral community-based education/exercise program (Y-PEP) on ...
The Challenge of Using Wikis in School: The Experiences of Two Grade Six Teachers
(2012-07-05)
This study augments an expanding body of research literature examining the complex process of integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and introducing ICT-related literacy skills into English Language ...