Rosa Bruno-Jofré Symposium in Education
This collection includes selected papers presented at the Rosa Bruno-Jofré Symposium in Education. The Rosa Bruno-Jofré Symposium, formerly named the Graduate Students in Education Symposium (GSES), is an interdisciplinary symposium that provides graduate students with a friendly and affordable opportunity to present and discuss their research or work in-progress with other students, faculty, and practitioners from the field.
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Recent Submissions
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Front Matter
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Complicating the Narrative: Representation, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Witnessing
(2019-03-11)Refugee and forced migrant issues have emerged as part of the nation’s consciousness with the rising number of asylum seekers arriving in European countries, the uncertainty over the position of undocumented migrants in ... -
Research Impact Responsibilities: Policy Alternatives for Canada
(2019-03-11)How research evidence comes to have impacts in academic and nonacademic arenas is increasingly becoming a focal point in scholarly discourse across scholarly disciplines and jurisdictional boundaries. However, despite the ... -
The Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Duncan McArthur Hall: 50 Years of Scholarship at Queen’s University Faculty of Education
(2019-03-11)In 1968, the Queen’s University Faculty of Education at Duncan McArthur Hall began to educate professional teachers in an effort to solve the crisis caused by the dramatic increase in Canada’s population during the baby ... -
Hot Passion Versus Cold Reason: An Expectancy-Value-Cost Conceptualization of What Motivates Partisanship Versus Rationality
(2019-03-11)It is about as fashionable as it has ever been to disagree with objective fact. Being right is to some a matter of opinion rather than a position within reality. Volume seems to drown out reason. This paper is not an ... -
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning: Leadership Lessons from some Youth Thespians
(2019-03-11)The development of youth agency and leadership skills offers many long-term benefits. This paper analyses an experimental high school action theatre project in the American Midwest, entitled Beyond the Borders (BTB), through ... -
Front Matter
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Towards equity in high school physics education: A literature review
(2018-04-27)This literature review explores the issue of underrepresentation of women in physics by framing the topic as a journey towards equity, with many barriers along the way and which persists, yet at a slow pace. The journey ... -
Mathematics for teaching in a professional learning network: Complexity inquiry
(2018-04-27)Numerous mathematics teachers nowadays have turned to online professional learning networks (PLNs) to carry on their professional learning. Very few related studies have revealed the implications of mathematics teachers’ ... -
Motivating disengaged and disenchanted adolescents: A literature review
(2018-04-27)Self-determination theory, which focuses on autonomy, competence, and relatedness, needs to be modified to include a fourth essential psychological need: aesthetic experience. The following literature review uses a practical ... -
Varieties of culture shock for international teachers to consider: A literature review
(2018-04-27)This paper examines contextual information critical to teachers who go overseas to work in international schools. When teachers move abroad to work, they become sojourners between cultures. Rich learning and growth awaits ... -
The experiences and perceived differences in working conditions among early childhood educators who have worked in both for-profit and non-profit childcare centres
(2018-04-27)One benefit to joining a professional association is the monitored adherence to quality. Thus, it is expected that members from a professional association adhere to higher quality standards. One indicator of quality in any ... -
Get off my lawn: Why capitalism’s monopoly on innovation is bad for us all and what educators can do about it
(2018-04-27)Innovation has many definitions such as generating wealth through ideas in business settings like a new product being brought to market. It can also mean applying creativity in psychology such as a new theoretical perspective ... -
Front Matter Graduate Student Symposium, Selected Papers V.5
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A Phenomenographic Approach to Students' Alternative Conceptions of Electrical Circuits
(2017-04-28)This study examined the variety of alternative conceptions that students have regarding electrical circuits using a phenomenographic approach. Five graduate students completed a questionnaire and simple activity relating ... -
School Choice Connections Around the Globe and in Francophone Minority Communities in Canada: a Critical Reading of School Choice Literature
(2017-04-28)This article compares the tendencies that have been noted in academic literature at the international level as well as research regarding the particular school choices of Francophone families in minority settings in ... -
Giuding in Language Assessment: a Literature Review
(2017-05-28)This paper reviews empirical studies in the field of language assessment on grading or scoring. Most of the reviewed studies have attempted to examine systematic effects on scoring of variables associated with teachers/raters ... -
Current Status of Vocational Education in Ontario: the Exclusionary Outcomes of Marrying Vocational and Special Education
(2017-04-28)The Government of Ontario 's universal student success initiative makes the claim that, through expanded programs, Ontario high schools are "changing to meet the individual needs of students and to help more of them ... -
Exploring Chinese International Students' Understanding of and Attitudes to "Career" and Career Counselling Services
(2017-04-28)The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese international students ' understanding of the term "career" and their attitudes toward career counselling services. This research is situated in social constructionism ... -
A Review of the Literature: the Impacts of Parental Illness on Adolescent Schooling
(2017-04-28)There is a dearth of studies that consider the impacts of parental illness specifically on engagement and achievement levels of adolescents in school. This literature review presents the knowledge and ideas that have ...