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Perspectives Of Professional Learning Policy Implementation For Supporting English Language Learners In A Rural Ontario School Board
(2014-08-28)
The issue of lower academic achievement for English language learners (ELLs) compared to their English-speaking peers has been identified in the research literature. Professional learning for classroom teachers, English ...
Complexities and Contradictions: Citizenship, National Narratives, and Education in Israel
(2014-10-08)
Public school systems tend to operate as a lens into general public discourse, a way to determine how successive generations are moulded from students into citizens. History and civics curriculums are sites of history ...
The Progress of Discipline: An Examination of Safe Schools Policies in Ontario's Education System (1999-2011), From the Politics of Exclusion to the Conditions of Inclusion
(2012-09-25)
In 2001 the Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris (1995-2002) implemented an authoritative discipline regime in Ontario schools that epitomized the law and order values of contemporary neoconservative rule ...
Kingston Adolescents’ Knowledge About the Social Determinants of Health: Assessing and Addressing the Gap
(2012-09-27)
Upstream social determinants of health (SDH) have become widely acknowledged as lying at the root of poor health outcomes in Canada and globally. Conditions of social disadvantage restrict access to both social and physical ...
Understanding the Role and Nature of Intuition in Philosophical Inquiry
This thesis explores the role and nature of intuition in philosophical inquiry. Appeals to intuition have either been used as evidence for or against philosophical theories or as constitutive features of judgement. I attempt ...
Supporting High Performance Athletic Students Balance Sport and Education: An Examination of the Teacher’s Role
(2016-01-05)
The demands placed on high performance student athletes (athletes who perform at a competitive level) continue to intensify (Conzelmann & Nagel, 2003) and finding a balance between athletic and educational responsibilities ...
Experience, Education and Subjectivity: A Comparison of John Dewey's and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Conceptions of Experience and Their Implications for Education
(2016-10-27)
This thesis compares John Dewey’s philosophy of experience and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and illustrates how Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology can strengthen and further Dewey’s philosophy of education. I begin ...
A Neoliberal Analysis of the Grade Three Jamaican Integrated Studies Textbook
(2016-04-30)
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This study applies the theoretical framework of neoliberalism, biopolitics, and neoliberal governmentality to the instructional materials found in the Grade 3 Jamaican classroom. This study is phenomenological ...
Four Secondary Teachers’ Perspectives on Enhancing the Inclusion of Exceptional Students
(2015-09-02)
Recent reports suggest that the number of students receiving special education services in Ontario has risen from 14% to 23% in a ten-year span (People for Education, 2015). Thus, there is a growing need to study which ...
Assessment for Learning Explored in Grade 9 Applied Mathematics Classrooms
Despite the focus on assessment for learning (AfL) across Canada, the use of AfL across classrooms is not routine practice. Existing literature has found that secondary mathematics teachers implement AfL strategies along ...