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Challenges of Black and Other Minority Students Around Equity and Inclusion in a Postsecondary Institution in Ontario, Canada
In Canada statistics show that visible minorities represent 23.3% of the total Canadian population. The vast majority (94.8%) of the foreign-born population lives in Ontario (53.3%), British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta. ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Teachers’ Formative Classroom Assessment Practices and Students’ Self-Regulation in Kindergarten Classrooms
A concurrent mixed methods study design was used to explore possible relationships between teachers’ formative classroom assessment practices and students’ self-regulation in Kindergarten classrooms. A total of 8 female ... -
Investigating Teachers’ Perspectives on Using Students' First Language in the English as a Second Language Classroom in Guangzhou China
The widely-used monolingual approach, meaning avoiding or minimizing first language (L1) use in classrooms, by increasing the input in the second language (L2) in the course of learning can effectively develop students’ ... -
Students with Physical Disabilities in High School Drama Education: Stories of Experience
The dramatic arts have been shown to positively benefit students with disabilities; however, there has been little research examining how students with physical disabilities have experienced drama. Inspired by my own ... -
Investigating Relationships among Chinese High School Students’ Self-Assessment of English Skills, English Proficiency, and Their Perceptions towards Self-Assessment
It is widely accepted in education that self-assessment improves students’ learning and achievement, particularly in regard to foreign language acquisition. English curriculum standards for senior high school in China has ... -
Adult Literacy: Challenges Facing Adult Syrian Refugees With Minimal Or No Prior Formal Schooling
The 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees describes a refugee as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted... is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of ... -
Vulnerable, Valuable, and Vital: Exploring Perceptions of Academic Literacy in the First-Year College Classroom
The perspectives of college students and teachers regarding academic literacy are largely absent from literature on literacy in higher education, particularly in Canada. This study addresses this gap by centering the ... -
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Teachers’ Experiences with Interdisciplinary Integration in Technological Education
Though enrollment rates into many of TE and BBT programs have seen some decline, mostly due to revised requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), learners still stand to benefit from exposure and learning ... -
Campesino-a-Campesino Pedagogy, Peasant Protagonism, and the Spread of Agroecology: A Multi-Site Case Study
As more actors embrace agroecology as an alternative to industrial agriculture, it is important to recognize that the ways in which agroecology are taught and learned have a profound effect on whether or not the spread of ... -
Guided by Local Elders and Teachers: How Non-Indigenous Teachers Can Support First Nations and Métis Students in Northern Saskatchewan
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action report demands the better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content (2015, p. 7). A major problem is that non-Indigenous teachers have not been ... -
Public School Kindergarten in Ontario - A Historical Perspective
Beginning in 1883, Ontario was the first, and for many decades the only province in Canada that has continuously provided kindergarten as part of a public education. In 2010, Ontario made another innovative policy decision ... -
Picture Delightful Calculations
This research presents an argument for situating shape grammars as the core component of drawing and design through observation, and as a core component for improving spatial reasoning and visual spatial perception, ... -
What Factors and Experiences Motivate Innovators? An Expectancy-Value-Cost Approach to Promoting Student Innovation
This multi-manuscript dissertation integrated a systematic literature review, interviews, and a developed survey instrument to investigate the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian ... -
The Bullying Word: Exploring how Students, Parents, Teachers and Principals Interpret ‘Bullying’
Over the past 25 years, research, policies, programming and news reports have proactively tackled the evolving bullying problem, trying to remain ahead of the issue and provide relevant solutions for all educational community ... -
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 ...
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