Faculty of Education Graduate Theses
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A Historical Analysis on Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and Abed's Reception of Paulo Freire's Critical Literacy in Designing BRAC's Functional Education Curriculum in Bangladesh From 1972 to 1981
In this study, I examine the characteristics of the reception of Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire’s critical literacy by Building Resources Across Communities in Bangladesh (BRAC) from 1972 to 1981.The central questions ... -
Examining What Institutional Structures and Forms of Leadership Support the Growth and Development of Non-Academic Professional Staff in Universities
The study of career development pathways and support for the population of university employees who do not hold an academic appointment is lacking. Many departments across one eastern Ontario institution are coming to rely ... -
Unpacking religious and secular binaries in public school sexuality education: Conceptualizations of sexuality in Ontario Christians’ life narratives
In 2010, less than 48 hours after the first release of a new Health and Physical Education curriculum (HPE), Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty revoked the update, claiming the Liberal government, had ‘listened to the parents.’ ... -
Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context
The purpose of this dissertation is to help fill a long-standing gap in the field of history of education with respect to studies on the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium. In particular, this study examines a crucial episode ... -
Multiple Perspectives on Teaching Excellence: a Case Study
Teacher compensation is the largest part of the monies spent by school boards in Ontario annually and currently all teachers are paid following a grid system that rewards teachers for time spent in the system rather than ... -
Teaching creative music: A case-study and action research examination of practices in creative music making
Many scholars agree that creative music making can facilitate student agency development, increase a sense of belonging and foster creative expression. Creative music making allows students to bring their perspectives to ... -
Relational Leadership: Exploring the Doctoral Supervisor–Student Context in Higher Education in Canada
Review of research literature revealed that doctoral students’ well-being and performance are influenced by the leadership style their supervisors exhibit. The purpose of this research was to explore the nature of relational ... -
An examination of prosodic awareness and reading achievement across Grades 3 to 6: A focus on English Monolinguals and Chinese-English Bilingual Children
This dissertation comprises two studies that examine predictors of children’s reading. In Study 1, I investigated the unique contributions of prosodic awareness and morphological awareness to word reading and reading ... -
Teachers in the Trenches: Exploring Canadian-Certified Early-Career Teachers' Experiences of Turnover and Retention in International Schools in China
Teacher turnover, often referred to as teacher attrition or migration, has been a growing worldwide concern for many years, particularly for teachers within their first five years of the teaching profession. Multiple studies ... -
Learning with psychosis: A narrative inquiry exploring the lived experiences of secondary students living with early psychosis
Those who experience psychosis struggle to find inclusion within educational institutions (Goulding, Chien, & Compton, 2010; Laurence, Rosseau, Foriter, & Mottard, 2016; Morgan et al., 2012) despite a growing recognition ... -
Towards a Theory for Supporting Creativity in Schools
Education recognizes that creativity is important for students and society. However, teachers have scant direction about how to support it, in part because current understanding of what works is piecemeal, as is the empirical ... -
Stakeholder voices: Validity argument for score meaning and use of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) in international business workplaces in South Korea
Competent English communication skills are essential to success within international business workplaces. To assess employees’ qualifications for international businesses, international companies have used the Test of ... -
A Pedagogy of Selflessness: a Multiple Case Study Exploring the Cultivation and Expression of Student Selflessness in an Ontario Grade 6 Classroom
In a society where self-indulgence is aggressively promoted, sapping the vitality of our youth and adults, educators have a moral obligation to react. This study offers a reaction through a pedagogy of selflessness. A ... -
The Internationalization of Education and its Effects on the Self-Efficacy of Rural Secondary Mathematics Teachers in Supporting English Language Learners
The internationalization of education is happening in secondary schools across Canada. Between 2015 and 2017, the number of international students arriving in Canada increased by 41 percent. Ontario alone hosted over 121,000 ... -
A Grounded Theory of Creative Identity
It is no small irony that studies of creative identity have themselves tended to lack creativity. Drawing on interviews with participants who self-identify as creative, this study goes beyond conventional notions of creative ... -
Chronic Health Conditions in the Classroom: A Pan-Canadian Assessment of Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning
Due to a variety of factors (e.g., absence from school, being physically unable to take part in certain activities), students with Chronic Health Conditions (CHCs) are at a greater risk of low academic achievement and less ... -
An Historical Examination of the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum in Ontario Through Two Lenses: Curriculum Policy Documents and Reflections of Leaders in the Field
The secondary mathematics curriculum in Ontario has gone through many revisions and renewals during the past 60 years. Current curriculum and policy documents are readily available, yet previous documents are not easily ... -
Preparing Elementary Preservice Teachers to Integrate Information and Communications Technology in Teaching and Learning: Exploring the Intended, Enacted, and Experienced Curriculum
The goal of this case study was to understand and identify the supporting factors to prepare elementary preservice teachers to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. My interest ... -
Exploring the Washback Effects of the Chinese National Matriculation English Test (NMET) on Student Learning and Their Test Anxiety
Washback refers to the effects of language testing on teaching and learning (Alderson & Wall, 1993). Washback studies have been frequently conducted in educational fields in the past several decades (Alderson & Wall, 1993; ... -
Exploring the Alignment of the Secondary School Certificate English Examination with Curriculum and Classroom Instruction: a Washback Study in Bangladesh
In the nearly three decades of research, washback research has explored a range of factors such as teachers, students, and social contexts in order to understand how testing influences teaching and learning globally. ...
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