Browsing Faculty of Education Graduate Projects by Title
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Film: an Art Form Worthy of Study
(2012-01-24)Film is an integral part of the everyday cultural experience of millions of Canadians (Ewoudou, 2005). Though we have enjoyed film as a society for close to a century, we have been reluctant to regard it as art. The ... -
FOREIGN STUDENTS IN CANADA: THE IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE FROM START TO FINISH
(2010-09-24)The purpose of this project is to reveal the practical issues that arose for foreign students in Canada as they attempted to maintain their immigration documents in compliance with prescribed procedures, and to fully access ... -
FOSTERING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOR GRADE 3 STUDENTS PREPARING FOR EQAO EXAMINATIONS
(2013-08-07)All Grade 3 students in Ontario are required to write standardized examinations in June that test their abilities in both language and mathematics. Test results from the 2011- 2012 academic year of testing by the Educational ... -
FOUR WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF LIVING A LIFETIME WITH ADHD
(2011-04-27)This project is written as a reflection of how ‘we’ think, ‘we’ being adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Although the project follows conventional methodology in terms of data collection and ... -
FOUR WOMEN’S PERCEPTIONS OF LIVING A LIFETIME WITH ADHD
This project is written as a reflection of how ‘we’ think, ‘we’ being adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Although the project follows conventional methodology in terms of data collection and ... -
From Content to Concept: Thinking Historically in the Elementary Classroom
(2016-09-30)In a little more than a century Canadian history and social studies education has faced a barrage of questions that has complicated its delivery in schools. Questions about the purpose of social studies, whose history ... -
GRADE 3 AND GRADE 6 MATHEMATICS: A COMPARISON OF ONTARIO’S 2005 CURRICULUM POLICY DOCUMENT, CURRICULUM SUPPORT MATERIALS, AND LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENT TO COMPARABLE ELEMENTS IN FLORIDA
(2010-04-29)A high-quality, challenging, and accessible mathematics education provides students in elementary or middle school with a foundation for future understanding of mathematics (NCTM, 2007). As such, influential curriculum ... -
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES AND TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES
(2010-01-05)As Canada’s newcomer student population continues to rise and 42% of total new immigrants settle in Ontario (Canwest News Service, 2009), it becomes increasingly important to ensure that these students are adapting well ... -
Insights Into the Lived Experiences of Three Male Elementary School Teachers
(2011-08-24)The purpose of the present study was to understand the lived experiences of three male elementary teachers working at the Kindergarten to Grade 4 level in a single school district in northwestern Alberta. The study ... -
Interactive Whiteboard Technology: Perspectives and Attitudes of FSL Teachers.
(2010-10-19)Advancements in the use of technology in education are changing the way students learn and inevitably change the way teachers teach. This project explores French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers’ perceptions and attitudes ... -
Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners in a Faculty of Education Careers Curriculum
(2016-04-29)Adult learners are a discrete population with specific needs and characteristics. The context of this project is a Career Services office in a Faculty of Education at a Local University [pseudonym]. The office serves a ... -
Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners in a Faculty of Education Careers Curriculum
(2016-04-27)Adult learners are a discrete population with specific needs and characteristics. The context of this project is a Career Services office in a Faculty of Education at a Local University [pseudonym]. The office serves a ... -
My Deaf Autistic Son and Me
(2009-05-12)This Self Study, submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Education, is in the form of a series of vignettes and describes the challenges I experienced as the mother of a deaf autistic ... -
Not Just Reading and Writing: Exploring Literacy in Ontario's Secondary Schools
(2010-05-25)In 2002, Ontario became the first province in Canada to require the successful completion of a high-stakes large-scale literacy test as a requirement for graduation: the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT). ... -
ofChorus: Positioning a Co-Curricular Choir within a Faculty of Education
(2016-04-27)ofChorus was a co-curricular choir established in September 2014, at the Queen's University Faculty of Education in which anyone at the Faculty could participate. In order to ensure the opportunity to participate was made ... -
Once Upon a Fairy Tale: An Overview of Traditional & Alternative Fairy Tales
(2011-04-29)“Fairy tales and fantasy do help to shape great minds. Einstein was an avid reader of fairy tales” (Polette, 2005, p.1). Children’s literature contains many genres, one of the most popular being fairy tale stories. After ... -
Ontario's Annual Education Plan: A Curriculum Guide for Grade 7 and 8 using Career Cruising
(2010-10-19)This program guide has been developed to provide Grade 7 and 8 students with necessary career and education exploration activities. The activities in the guide have been developed using Career Cruising, a web-based guidance ... -
Parent Engagement: A Resource to Foster and Support Growth Mindset in Students
(2017-03-27)The purpose of this project was to create a resource to help parents understand the nature of growth mindset and its importance; to support them at home in their efforts to promote growth mindsets within their children; ... -
Parents’ Experiences With Gifted Identification and Programming
(2012-03-07)The focus of this investigation was parents’ experiences with gifted identification and gifted programming obtained through individual interviews with three mothers (Peggy, Carrie and Sharon) of gifted children. The results ... -
“A Place of Being”: Helping “students with exceptionalities” find their place using Indigenous ways of knowing.
(2014-06-19)Throughout my teaching career, I have worked closely with students with exceptionalities and have observed, time and time again, the need for change within our special education system. My students often struggle academically ...